I should tell you a story.
Much like we joke that the Bills always seem to end up on the roof, I try to put the tasks and volunteers AT HAND, together. Now this is not strictly possible and various folks will have to simply do what needs to be done. Often there are options, often not.
We insulated the crawlspace today. This really is an uncomfortable, cramped and stooped and crawling around proposition! Fiberglass insulation overhead in the crawl ain't FUN.
Oddly, it always falls to the YOUTH. OFTEN, that means Kelly and I and the ELDERS.
The Mormon Missionaries came through again today. They brought us a couple young fellas, as per Kelly's request, from SVU, and along with Janielle, a stellar Sophomore Volunteer from W&L (the only student THERE from IOWA) we knocked it out,
and put the plastic on the floor.
...and sent them ALL home after dubbing them "HEROES!!!"
Before THAT though, I had an after action debrief:
"So," I said, "what did we do well and what did we do poorly..." You could see the the looks both quizical and concerned, or unknowing...
Elder Walker, who with Elder Merrick, got there towards the end of the insulation said, "We got here late?"
I corrected him as you may already have guessed, "No" I said, "A volunteer is ALWAYS on time, both coming and going (from the site)."
I paused, stared semi-dramatically, then continued into the breach:
"The answer to the question is, we did EVERYTHING well, and nothing poorly..."
Sometimes it is better to be lucky than good, and sometimes a plan comes together nicely.
-Joe
