Abbeville, Louisiana, May 2007Today was our fourth day of work here in Abbeville, LA. We actually don't work in Abbeville but we branch out into the surrounding area...This area we are in is spread out along highway 14 and if you follow that highway you will eventually run into our worksites!
The work today was pretty much the same as it has been the past few days. It is hard to write about each group because we each have so many different experiences on the different work crews. My crew, Team Brett, had a pretty funny experience today. We were sheetrocking part of a room in our house (Hilda and Roland). It was going well and we were starting to mud and just starting to finish up our last piece of sheetrock. As we set down our piece of sheetrock I started to smell this awful smell that could't place. I yelled, "ahhh what is that awful smell?"
Well, it turns out we had hit a natural gas valve with the piece of sheetrock so of course we immediately turned it off and vacated the house.
As we were sitting outside chilling and waiting for the house to quit smelling the mail woman walked up...she said, "ugh...what is that smell?" So it turns out the smell was permeating even the area surrounding the house so we decided to call the fire department. Alan called them sounding all serious but they said they coudn't help so we had to call 911...hehe anyways they sent two trucks and told us it was safe to go back in...so we did just that. We went back in and finished up the house we were working on!
Tomorrow is our last day of work and I am kind of dissapointed about that. It seems like there is still so much more that could be done we could stay here for the whole summer and still have things to do, which is crazy to think about. We are working early tomorrow and then staying until about 330 and then coming back here to clean up so we can head out to our dinner! I am oober excited about that too because the food promises to be ultra delicious!
It rained here like crazy today. It was sunny all day until about two oclock when the rain started to pour down on us. On our way back from our work sites in the bus we saw the streets and parking lots that were flooded.
They flooded so quickly and the crazy thing was that people were still driving down them and a few got stuck. Later on tonight Chris tried to go to Wal-Mart but it was closed because the power had gone out.
She went to Win-Dixie (the supermarket) and it only had limited power but they were allowed to buy things. Back here at home in our warehouse our power went out too but only for a short time. For dinner we had brisket and green beans and baked potatoes and it was superb...we all thourougly enjoyed it!
Then after we all recovered from our large amt of dinner we decided to have a volleyball tourney with three teams....my team lost everytime but we had a good time and right now they are playing the championship game! We are all going to be tired tonight and I am really looking forward to bed!
Much love back home!
JK
2 comments:
I can't imagine how grateful the families you are helping must be. It is wonderful to see such a display of God's love. Bless you all for your hard work!
It is fun to look at the pictures of you all working so hard. JK I am wondering if you are going to use your skills to help out at home.
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