Yesterday, I had just about sworn that I would never do detasseling again (for those of you that don't know what detasseling is, check out Wikipedia). But today I'm considering actually coming back next year. You may wonder what brought on the sudden change of heart? It's because God is amazing!
Most of the time detasseling is difficult. It involves a whole lot of walking, and often times my shoulders ache from pulling the tassels. But yesterday was the worst day I have ever had in my entire time detasseling, and I'm not alone, some one who had been doing it for three years said that they had never had a day so bad. Although the field we were pulling wasn't ver large (only 20 acres) it was absolutely the worst field I had ever been in, apart from having seven foot tall corn stalks, much of the corn had been blown over by a storm, and was so twisted together it was almost impossible to tell which row was which, or to find the tassels. We spent eight hours in that field, with the temperature steadily rising to around 90 degrees, getting more and more tired as we went along. By the end of the day I was almost crying because I didn't want to keep going, and that night I was dreading getting up the next morning to do it all over again.
The next morning got off to a rocky start, I found out that it was supposed to get really hot today as well (they said that the heat index could get up to 106). Also, as I pulled out my stuff I realized that I had left my mp3 player at home, and I felt like crying again when I though about spending a monotonous 8 hours, in the heat, without even my music to keep me sane. But Like I said, God is amazing! After we had first pulled (A first pull is when we go through the field for the first time and pull all the tassels the machine missed.) the bits of the field we hadn't gotten to yesterday, Phil (our bus assistant) got us all together and said that we needed to try and get out of this field by 12 so that we wouldn't be out when it got really hot. But to do this we needed to have 30 minute rounds (a round is when we go up one row of the field and than come down another row). Since our rounds yesterday were no where near 30 minutes, I wasn't very optimistic about our chances of getting done before 12. Well, we didn't get done at 12, we got done at 10! Since we had been so slow yesterday, we had been able to pull most of the tassels, and the rows were so clean, that we were able to do a round in 15 minutes! This just shows that no matter how horrible things are, God is always in control, and you can always find the positive side to almost any situation.Because we had suffered so much yesterday, we were able to get done quickly today, and get out of the field before it got unbearably hot. Isn't God so wonderful?
Here are a couple more bright spots in the weekend that I thought would be the worst weekend of my life:
-Getting to eat bubblegum the entire time I was pulling tassels.
-Seeing hot air balloons.
-Seeing a guy witness to someone in the cornfield.
-Not getting sunburned.
-Brightly colored duct tape.
-Getting to Spend some time praying since I didn't have my mp3 player.
-Fully relying on God throughout this whole ordeal.
-Chocolate pudding.
Until next time, au revoir.
~Nat
P.S. If you know what song that my title came from, you are officially awesome.
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