Changes

All throughout our time leading up tho this trip, we talked about flexibility. We knew this was going to be one of the most fluid trips we have been on; two days before the trip there was a lot we didn't know, and wouldn't find out until we were on the reservation. But by Friday night, we knew one thing. We would not be going on a traditional mission trip. Multiple members of our group came down with suspected cases of the H1N1 virus (swine flu). It was determined, through many hard hours of deliberation, that we could not travel to the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota. We could not do that to ourselves or the people we had been commissioned to help.

Disappointment, anger, and sadness were widespread feelings, but also the knowledge that we did the right thing. And the knowledge that these circumstances were out of our control. So we then had the task of deciding what was going to happen to this week, and our mission trip in general.

This week we will be working 8-4 every day around the Twin Cities, treating our week as much like what we wanted it to be as possible, while at the same time trying to minimize the effects of the flu. I am hopeful that this will go well. I would much rather be in South Dakota, but at this point we must play the hand we were dealt. This blog will be updated still throughout the week even though the trip isn't going how we planned.