Day 2Friday, July 18, 2008 |
Day 2
Wow, we did so much work today. We actually did more work than the missionary thought we would be able to. Ronnie is one of the full time missionaries with Alternative Missions (who we partner with) and he, his wife, and their two children moved into their unfinished house last week. The house will eventually be two stories, but currently it is only 1 story with a flat concrete roof that will one day be the bottom of the second floor. The girls focused on painnting, the entire front room ad to get a white primer on the walls to eventually be painted. The boys had the tough work, they arrived and had to move a giant pile of dirt. Then then had to move a pile of rocks and spread them out over a large distance to create a driveway like experience. During this time Ronnie also wanted to fix his well. How the well works is a 20 foot hole in the ground that fills with ground water. Well lots of mud and small rocks got into the filter and the well was not filling up very well. Dillon volunteered to be lowered in and move all the dirt, it was pretty funny with him down that well. The boys finished moving all the rocks and topped the day off with pouring a giant concrete step to get to the front door. When April and I can just 3 months ago the house was so far away from where it is now. It was uninhabitable and a construction mess, but now it is quite impressive. Oh and we found a giant toad size of two fists probably. I took plenty of photos, but the internet isnt uploading them very well.
The evening was filled by a BBQ at the skate park. It was open skate night so many of the students skated with the locals, watched a surf video, made girly bracelets, and played checkers. It was a lot of fun and some quality realtional ministry.
Tomorrow looks like a lot of fun, we will be spliting into two teams, the surfers and the non surfers. Five people Billy Morin, Dillon, Ryan, Dayne, and Matt will be hanging out with locals and surfing. Im not going to say teaching them beacuse the locals will probably school them in the water. The rest of the team will be going to Barrett's new property. Barret (who is also married with two daughters) have just moved into temporary houseinig on their new property. They just finished clearing the area of trees and most brush, but there are twigs and branches everywhere. Our job is to move most of this brush to give access for a back hoe to come in and do some heavy work.
Awards:
I try every night to give out at least 2 awards, a spiritual character award and a funny award. So here they are:
Spiritual: The work of moving the dirt was extremely difficult and hard, literaly the boys shirts came home soaking wet. But Ryan Green worked the entire time, never giving up. By the mid day almost all the boys gave up, but not Ryan
Funny: I didnt award this for being funny, but more of being proud. At the Skate park, Michelle Sharp was brave enough to try skating and "dropping in" for the first time. She did a great job, she did scrape her knee a little, but went home happy.
Prayer
Please continue to keep us in your prayers. Everyone is healthy and resting well right now. I;m up with two leaders, but all students are tucked in their beds, while dreams of sugar plum faires dancing in their heads. Pray for safety tommorow, we are going in the thick of the jungle, you know where all the characters of the Jungle Book live. But it will be fine, Barrett says he has found no dangerous creatures at all.
Wow, we did so much work today. We actually did more work than the missionary thought we would be able to. Ronnie is one of the full time missionaries with Alternative Missions (who we partner with) and he, his wife, and their two children moved into their unfinished house last week. The house will eventually be two stories, but currently it is only 1 story with a flat concrete roof that will one day be the bottom of the second floor. The girls focused on painnting, the entire front room ad to get a white primer on the walls to eventually be painted. The boys had the tough work, they arrived and had to move a giant pile of dirt. Then then had to move a pile of rocks and spread them out over a large distance to create a driveway like experience. During this time Ronnie also wanted to fix his well. How the well works is a 20 foot hole in the ground that fills with ground water. Well lots of mud and small rocks got into the filter and the well was not filling up very well. Dillon volunteered to be lowered in and move all the dirt, it was pretty funny with him down that well. The boys finished moving all the rocks and topped the day off with pouring a giant concrete step to get to the front door. When April and I can just 3 months ago the house was so far away from where it is now. It was uninhabitable and a construction mess, but now it is quite impressive. Oh and we found a giant toad size of two fists probably. I took plenty of photos, but the internet isnt uploading them very well.
The evening was filled by a BBQ at the skate park. It was open skate night so many of the students skated with the locals, watched a surf video, made girly bracelets, and played checkers. It was a lot of fun and some quality realtional ministry.
Tomorrow looks like a lot of fun, we will be spliting into two teams, the surfers and the non surfers. Five people Billy Morin, Dillon, Ryan, Dayne, and Matt will be hanging out with locals and surfing. Im not going to say teaching them beacuse the locals will probably school them in the water. The rest of the team will be going to Barrett's new property. Barret (who is also married with two daughters) have just moved into temporary houseinig on their new property. They just finished clearing the area of trees and most brush, but there are twigs and branches everywhere. Our job is to move most of this brush to give access for a back hoe to come in and do some heavy work.
Awards:
I try every night to give out at least 2 awards, a spiritual character award and a funny award. So here they are:
Spiritual: The work of moving the dirt was extremely difficult and hard, literaly the boys shirts came home soaking wet. But Ryan Green worked the entire time, never giving up. By the mid day almost all the boys gave up, but not Ryan
Funny: I didnt award this for being funny, but more of being proud. At the Skate park, Michelle Sharp was brave enough to try skating and "dropping in" for the first time. She did a great job, she did scrape her knee a little, but went home happy.
Prayer
Please continue to keep us in your prayers. Everyone is healthy and resting well right now. I;m up with two leaders, but all students are tucked in their beds, while dreams of sugar plum faires dancing in their heads. Pray for safety tommorow, we are going in the thick of the jungle, you know where all the characters of the Jungle Book live. But it will be fine, Barrett says he has found no dangerous creatures at all.
Post written by: Evan Liewer at 10:57 PM