But, the beginning of the week was pretty good.
Made it back to NB to have family home evening with a family and the
other Elders in North Battleford. That was pretty fun. I got to have
balut again (I think I total 5 duck embryos that I've eaten now). Also
Elder Morrill got to eat balut for the first time as well as Elder
Nielson, due to not wanting to barf, ate a small piece of the egg. Good
times :)
The next day after District Meeting we tried out a
barbecue that the Battleford Elders got. It was probably the best burger
I've had in a long time. We sauteed up some veggies to go with it and
it was just soo good.
Then we got back up to Meadow lake and that's where I'll skip to the end of the week.
So because the Sundance Feast was going to happen on the property that we do service on a lot up in Waterhen First Nation. We spent some of Friday helping get things ready. Mainly chopping up wood in preparation for the fires. It was nice to get out and do some hard work that day.
The next day we went up early to do some more prep for the feast. The highlight of that was helping them move teepee poles and help build a giant teepee. (I'll have to get some pictures later) But, it ended up taking about six of us to set this teepee up. The way that they did it was also symbolic of a few things. They first took four "forked" poles and set them in the directions of the four directions, North East West South, and we took two of them and pushed and pulled them up until they were standing in the air. Then we took a third "forked" pole and Stuck it in there so we had a tripod. After that we took the final direction and stabilized it. Finally we took the rest of the poles and set them up "in the order that the sun goes" so around the circle of the four directions. It was a lot of work but, it was nice to see the final product.
Later that day we had the sundance feast again. The
Elders were in the teepee this time doing the songs and ceremonies. The
entire day there was so much Cree being spoken as well. It was good to
see these people keeping on a dying tradition.
Sunday
was also a good day. We were able to go out to one of the members farms
to talk about home teaching stuff. Out there we found out we were the
first Elders to visit their farm for the first time in two years.
That was a special thing. It was also fun to be out on the farm. Their
kids had bought Ewes to help pay for missions in the future and they had
named all of them. It was a pretty legit place. It was pretty nice to
be out on a farm away from civilization.
Overall
a good week. Not sure if I would do it again but, it was a good week :)
Hopefully those of you in Northern Utah don't freeze too much. I'm
enjoying some nice weather and you guys get snow. A bit ironic
considering I'm in the great white North ;) Anywho I hope youz have
great week
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