Thursday, June 15, 2006

Waveland - Day 4

Today provided another full day for your mission team. Again, spending the entire day at the home of Kathy Rhoads, the youth group painted rooms and put plywood down to provide the subflooring in two rooms. By week's end, they will replace the subflooring in the entire house. I talked with Aaron Dunn tonight at around 6pm. They were finishing with dinner and were planning to go back to Kathy's house to paint her bathroom and replace a door that cracked when it fell over last night.

Because they are sleeping in tents, they have to deal with the realities of nature, namely crickets. Apparently, because the crickets weren't helping them sleep, Josh and Kevin spent about twenty minutes last night killing crickets.

After spending some time looking for a place to eat tonight, they ended up at a restaurant called Chop Stick Buffet. When they sent Josh in to get a menu for pricing, a gentleman came out with him and invited them in. After learning why they were in Waveland, the man gave them a twenty percent discount on their food and didn't charge them any task. If you look back through the previous posts, it's not hard to pick up a spirit of gratefulness among the people of Mississippi.

The Youth Group is working very hard and having an amazing experience. They know that they will work tomorrow and think probably a little bit on Saturday. The talk right now is that they will head home starting Saturday night, arriving home sometime on Sunday. Please keep them in your prayers as they continue this important work.

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