Brody Gallegos
At the time of writing this entry, though it is my first one, we are at least 3 days into the servant event. The reason for this is my negligence to carve out time to write and short term memory loss. Of the four job sites we have I have been assigned to site 2 which involves the installation of new floors and eventually dry wall. As of today we have gathered the materials for the job and preped the floors for installation. Me and two others got pulled away by Steve to do the “heavy lifting” for him in getting the supplies for our site and that was my entire day.
Lauchlan Sullivan
Today is the 15th we woke up at 6:15 ate breakfast and went to our worksite, we did a little demolition on the inside of a house to get ready for framing and started to work on a new porch. At around 4 we headed to the showers after that we had dinner then a fun game called trash can I would explain but mysteries are fun, we had devotions then headed to bed
Nikki Spangler
Today was the first day on the worksites. I am the lead on site #4 - the septic site. We are no longer allowed to hand dig tank pits due to safety regulations. The new tank was installed, ready and waiting for it's new drain field and connections when we visited sites on Sunday. Our task is to dig the drainfield - two 24" deep by 36" wide trenches - one 62' and one 58' if I recall correctly. We are doing a chamber system this year, which is a little less forgiving than the 'peanuts' - if you know, you know.
It has been very dry here for over a month, which makes the ground (and digging) very hard. Our prayer is for gentle overnight rains to soften the ground without flooding our in-progress trenches, and for dry work days. I know, it's specific. This scenario could make a huge difference in our progress. There are smaller numbers of people in general, and so between this and the lack of need for a tank pit, we have a smaller septic crew than I have ever worked with. We made reasonable progress for today. Overnight rain would be a blessing to us and help us to be a blessing to this family.
A highlight of the day was that our homeowner, who we always invite to join us in morning circle where we discuss the work to be done and start our day with prayer, offered to give our morning prayer when I asked if anyone would like to offer the prayer. I don't know that I've ever experienced that on the first work day in all my years at Servant Event. Certainly, we've had owners pray for us before. Usually it is later in our time after they have gotten a chance to know us a bit.
Izzy Sullivan
Day 4
Today was the first full work today. I was on site one and we are working on taking out the current deck and putting in a new one. So today was filled with lots of demo. We also ran into several wasp nets and went through seven almost eight cans of wasp spray. Luckily no one managed to get stung. We also got the chance to use some cool power tools today. The owner of the house we are working on also came outside and talked with us a little bit about the house. She has lived in it all her life which is very cool. When we got back from our worksites we played this game that everyone held on to this rope and tried not to let go or be pushed into the garbage can. I was very bad at it as I was the first one to get out. But it was enjoyable to watch everyone else. Overall today has been filled with fun and lots of learning!
