photos are on the bottom of the blog for each day...so if you missed them ...look again:)
Kids are doing great! As usual, we must be flexible..as the saying goes...stuff happens! We have moved a few teams to different worksites each day but everyone continues to work really hard. It was 91 yesterday....over 100 degrees on the roof one team worked on.
Last night was great fun!
A blue grass band(see photo below) came to play! The kids got up and danced and we had a ball. The 4 old guys who played were right out of central casting. They come once a week all summer to entertain ASP groups ...it is their way of saying Thank you to all the volunteers . They had some wise words for the kids including( read this with a Tennessee mountain drawl) " tonight before you go to bed pick up that textin' machine I know all you kids have and tell your family and parents you love them"....well since our kids don't have them for the week, I want you to know they Love you!!!!
WE had our own reflection time last night...had special prayers for some special people....Sophie Rose(Charlie's cousin), Michael Goodgame( it would have been his 21st birthday)and Vince( who is John's dear friend and neighbor who died yesterday).
Below are words form one youth on each team...you will hear from 4 different kids each day for the week.
Sasha
Today we worked on a different home, fixing up Miss Lucy's house. Miss
Lucy is an elderly woman that lives with her little dog named Mo.
When we first visited her house, we found that there was some work on
the roof that needed to be done and we have to paint her room. Today
we had some of the group working sanding the room and prepping it to
be painted and the other half worked on fixing the room and getting
ready to lay some roofing. The room had been primed and ready to paint
tomorrow and the roofing will be continued also.
Alex
Today is day 2 of the mission trip. My group consists of our
parents Sue and Mark, and my fellow kids Matt, Madi and Wrenn. After
Day 1, we were very eager to work. The reason was because Day 1 had
very little work for us. The mobile-home that we are working on is at
the bottom of a hill and on Day 1 it poured. An absolute river of mud
and water flowed down towards the home and all we could do before and
after it rained was move some flowers and clear out some junk. Today
we were greeting with the perfect conditions to work in. It was hot.
Very hot. And I was so glad for it. As I worked out there today, I
faced the heat head on with the happiness that we were actually doing
work for Evelyn, the elderly woman who lives in the home. We got a
great amount of work done and I am so glad for it. With the amazing
leadership of our group's dad, Mark Moyer, we were able to install
headers and footers to lay the groundwork for putting in the actual
underpinning. Day 2 was great and the Sonic milkshakes that we had
before going back to the World Cup disappointment were very worth it.
I can't wait for Day 3.
emma
Our crew worked on two different houses today. First, we worked on
insulating and replacing the ceiling in our primary family's home.
There are five children, two parents, and one grandfather in the
family that we work with. By noon, we found out that the eldest
daughter and the two parents were sick with a stomach virus, so we
worked on a different house. The second house that we worked on today
belonged to an old lady (Eighty on December 22nd!), and a little
dachshund named Mo. We sanded and primed a room for this lady, and
worked on beginning her new roof. Tomorrow we will be back at our
primary family's house, finishing up fixing their ceiling.
Elisabeth
Today, day two, "tattuesday" (according to ASP), we continued to work
on what we had begun yesterday. My family, consists of Deb,
JR(Matt), Jordan, Graham, and Max. Yesterday we met our family, a
young couple, Christina(19) and
Jordan(20) who are expecting a baby girl, Harley, in late August.
They also have seven very friendly Chihuahua and a baby kitten! Today
we worked on two rooms in their home, the future nursery and Christina
and Jordan's bedroom. I specifically worked in their bedroom.
Yesterday we sanded the floors in preparation for today. Today,
Jordan, JR, and I cleaned the floors to prepare for the tiling. By
4:30, we begun to head in to camp, we had finished tiling their entire
room! Graham, Max, Deb and JR worked yesterday taking out the old
floors in the nursery, where today they begun to set in the new
floors. It was a very labor intensive job, but they managed and have
done and continue to do a spectacular job. After a long and very
successful day working on the Nox's house, we left for the evening on
our relatively long drive back. On the way we stopped for gas where
we met a very sweet lab mix that had been abandoned just two weeks
prior. I truly hope the pup finds a forever home in the near future.
Back at camp, some of us raced to the showers, or the basketball
court, or out for a run, or even to watch the last of the US game in
World Cup. Overall it was a great day, super successful and I hope
the rest of the week continues to go this way.
-Elisabeth
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