Hi Ya'll!
How ya'll doin'?
Okay, enough of the southern accent, time for some Canadian eh?
Our first work day was yesterday (Monday) and we were all assigned to the same house (that means 44 people including our chaperones and bus drivers). The house we were assigned to had one weeks worth of work done on it before we started and the first thing we had to do was to paint everything in sight. Or at least, it seemed that way. Really, we had to paint the exterior siding heron grey and the interior walls first with primer and then with eggshell. Something we found amazing was that within one hour we completed the amount of work that one person would be able to do in a week. We work seven to eight hour days and if you start adding, you'll come to the conclusion we did.
Both yesterday and today we did more than just painting and some of those things included: making railings for the deck, scraping mud (both real and building mud) and sweeping the floors, finishing the outside trim, putting in soffet and fascia, installing doors, and putting down flooring materials. I think that the biggest hand has to go to the many people that did the caulking both yesterday and today. They did such a meticulous job and it really is important to seal all the little holes everywhere even if they seem insignificant. Good job guys!
Our temporary home on the Habitat site is in bunkhouses, the RJC girls being in one called Waveland, and the RJC guys being in one called Pass Christian.
They are quite comfortable and just the right temperature: not hot!
In our free time we have a number of things we could be doing including playing board games, basketball, volleyball, reading, eating, watching TV, and contacting home on the lovely computers.
Tonight we went to Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church in Pass Christian for a revival service. This church is Billy Morgan's church. Billy is a man whose house RJC built two years ago with MDS, in Pass Christian.
The service was unlike any other we had ever experienced before. Forget anything like Saskatchewan Mennonite services because this was the farthest thing from it except for one thing: praising the Lord. They sang differently, they preached differently, they even prayed differently, but that one thing stayed the same. They praised the Lord as we praise the Lord. AMEN!
Now, here are the pictures we promised you! Hope you like them!
Playing UNO on the bus to pass the time.
Graceland!
The cathedral in the French Quarter, New Orleans.
Thats all for now folks, more pictures tomorrow!
Thanks for all your prayers and support, God bless you!
Katie, Bronwyn, and Judith
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