Annoyance

Sickness can really be an annoyance. The boys and dorm staff at HBR are having to deal with lots of unpleasant things right now. Dorm mom Danielle was sick over the weekend, along with 7 or 8 boys. Several missed class on Monday, and they couldn’t even rest up because of the workers drilling the walls to fix the radiator problem. When I was there yesterday, one of the pipes that was supposed to be fixed started dripping a steady stream of water. How annoying! The boys joke about the “HBR curse,” stemming from some vandalism that the dorm had received last week. Someone had painted a V with a circle around it on the outside of the dorm on Guy Fawkes Day (Nov. 5).

As dorm subs, Greenie and I had heard about these strange happenings at HBR. Though we weren’t afraid of a “curse,” we thought we should at least have the appearance of keeping ourselves healthy from the illness that has befallen the dorm. We showed up wearing masks that the nurses were only too happy to give us!

Ready or not, here I come!

A couple more boys got sick while we were there. Hopefully I won’t catch their bug! Two of my study hall students were out sick today, one of them from HBR.

We have been talking about sharing the Gospel in study hall. Today as I was walking home from school, I saw one of my study hall students approaching. He was talking to another BFA student who is not a Christian. As we passed each other, my student said to me, “Hey – Gospel sharing – I’m doing it right now. And it’s annoying!”

I’ll have to find out what was annoying to him at that particular moment. At least I know the students have been thinking about our study hall devotional times! Now we are starting to talk about practical ways to study the Bible. Perhaps this will cause more annoying conversations for my students!