Messick-
We were told to be in the gym at eight for breakfast. After we ate we loaded up on the buses and went straight to the worksite but today I lucked out and got dragged around with David Rose for the morning, but in the afternoon I was at the site with everyone else. We ate lunch and stopped at Mickey Ds for a bathroom break. We headed to the site and I started to peel paint. After that I went and held ladders for Amanda, Raven and Stephanie. Also I put primer on one of the houses. Then Alex got named hardest guy worker of the day and I was proud of him. After we were finished working, we went back to the church and started playing the Wisconsin kids in a basketball game.
Erin-
Hi everybody! We are having so much fun. We started out the day by waking up at 7:30 (we were all so excited about that..) then after changing into our work clothes (which have to be jeans!) we had breakfast provided by Teameffort which was sausage, eggs, hash browns, and biscuits. After eating breakfast we headed out to the worksites with the help of our two leaders Dustin and Alyssa. We arrived and saw three houses, all worn down and damaged. One house needed work on the support on the ceiling, one house needed to be primed and painted and have the floor fixed, and the third house needed to be smoothed down so we could paint it and we had to put shingles on the roof. For most of the day I was up on the roof nailing down the shingles, I really enjoyed this job until the roof got really, really hot and I could barely sit on it. Then Emily, David Green, Clay, Tyler, Grace V, Amelia, Josh and I had to get off the roof before we got burned. For the rest of the day I helped scrape paint and put primer on houses.
We have started worshiping three times a day; we are going to do a morning prayer, noon prayer, and Compline every night. This is in addition to the worship Teameffort is holding putting on. Tomorrow morning we might go for a morning youth group jog, (as we did last year ha ha) so we will let you know how that goes. Everyday each church has a chore to do; today we had to help with dinner. The food so far has been pretty good, we had sandwiches for lunch. Well I’m going to go join the basketball game! We are all having fun, staying safe, and staying hydrated so no worries! And we can’t wait to get back and share all our fun!
Check back later today for more pictures and reports from our work.
Thank you all for what you are doing in New Orleans, and thank you for sharing with everyojne on St. Tim's blogspot.
ReplyDeleteHave a great day!
Robbie Powell