Rachel
Today I slept, ate food, watched women’s soccer, slept some more, watched a video of Joey Quinn dancing around in a faeire suit from two years ago, and drew pictures with sharpies. I was happy that we got a day of rest from driving. The highlight of my day was seeing Joey getting carried away after trying to squirt a pastor with a water gun. We are at state groups, and we saw him running out of the door with Pastor running after him, followed by a crowd. Tomorrow is back to work, with only two days left.
James Spangler
Today was a fun day. After we sang for the church here we got to all hangout all day. We took our group pictures and state pictures. Once that was done we just did random stuff like music, watchin the women’s soccer game, playin basketball and volleyball, then we had an excellent dinner. I felt kinda funky after dinner so I took a nap but when I got up I was ready to go again n was practicing for our talent show bit, it’s gonna be bomb.
Jake Nichols
This morning I woke up and I turned out to be the last one awake. I skipped breakfast and went to 8:00 church service, and also attend two church services at 11:00 for a song that we were singing. It was useless cause I don’t sing. After that I went out to the edge of the soccer field and played keyboard till lunch, which was pizza. After that I went up to the chapel to play piano. I needed help with a song tuning so I went downstairs to ask a friend to come up. He came and basically near dinner we came up with a song to play for the talent show. He knows the words, and I know the tune. After dinner I hung out with a friend in the elevator, which someone had placed four chairs and a table in. we played cards, war, until state groups. Since I can’t predict the future, JAke out.
Seth Whitehouse
Church this morning was long but good. After church we had good pizza and then took pictures. After pictures we had a lot of fun just hanging out with each other. For dinner we had a professional barbeque guy, and it was very good. Spiritual life was good as always mixed feelings about the next couple days, bye.
David Lang
This morning we went to three church services, one full service, and two services that we had to just sing and a few kids had to give testimonies. Then we had to take a group picture. Then we just had a lot of free time. In this free time I spent it playing volley ball, basketball and watching the women’s world cup finals. It was nice to relax for awhile.
Jimmy Pacey
Quite a relaxing Sunday! It was nice to be able to join the congregation of Emmanuel Lutheran Church. I took the free time in the afternoon to have a much needed nap . I look forward to returning to the worksite tomorrow and start finishing up the projects we began. Arthur, the guy we are helping out, is cool to talk to. He recounted a conversation he had with a friend prior to our coming to help him. He said that he didn’t know what he was going to do; the electrician couldn’t do anything until the plumbing was done and he didn’t know what he was going to do. His friend told him he needed a miracle. He told his friend that we were his miracle.
Nikki
I enjoyed a nap outside this afternoon – it was much needed after this week of long days and hard work. The youth have pretty much told you about our day, so I think I will share a little about Pearl McIntosh, the woman who we are working for at site 1. Pearl lives in the house she & her two brothers were born in. Her Granddaddy passed it down to her Daddy, who passed it to her. It has been in the family for at least 100 years. She isn’t sure before that. Her brother Fred lives next door. Pearl spends most of the days while we are there outside visiting with us and seeing the progress are making. Fred is usually out to greet us in the morning and comes for lunch and at the end of the day. They both join us in our morning, noon, and afternoon prayer circle. Friday morning we were rained on again (no lightening this time though) and after our lunch break Pearl made coffee and brought it up the mountainside in the pot to us for a warm up. She even made a second trip so everyone could get some. It is amazing to this flat lander who has sore knees after walking up and down Pearl’s mountain all week how she, at seventy-something, just walks up and down that mountainside all day long without a second thought. Pearl works cleaning houses for a few local families. There are only a few people who live in the Holler that are not related to Pearl & Fred. Her Granddaddy had owned a large portion of the holler – big enough that after he divided it up for his kids there was enough for them to divide up for their own children, all of whom still have acres of land. Pearl’s cousin up the street is the one who made initial contact to get this site in motion three years ago. Just a piece down the road on a mountaintop is a cemetery in which nearly everyone is relation to Pearl & Fred. Pearl is a joy to visit with and gladly goes off to ‘aggravate someone else’ when whoever she is visiting with needs to get back to work. Of course, getting to know the people we are helping IS part of the work we set out to do. Glory be to God!
P.S. I added some rafting photos to the album
