OFF TO A GREAT START!

Kirk, Keri, and I with our New Years Eve balloons

The Work team from Cederville Collage in Ohio and Armondo

Good Morning Everyone. I have found that with work teams there is not much time for anything else and if there is you are to tired and sore to be motivated to do it! God is so good! Our first work team arrived early Sunday morning after a big whoops! Mr Jones and Mr. Lewis drove to Mo Bay sat. afternoon to pick up the work team that was to arrive at 5:45. About 7:30 we got a call back here at the school saying that while Mr Jones is in MoBay ready to pick them up the team flew into Kingston (a good 5-6 hour drive from MoBay). So at 8 o'clock Sat. night Kirk had to go with a hired driver to Kingston to pick up the work team. They ended up getting here around 12:30-1 Sunday morning. A very long day for them. The first day it took me a while to find my niche, I didn't know how much to jump in and how much to encourage them to try. There were things i would see that needed to be done or if I saw someone who needed help and there where girls sitting around I wanted to encourage them to jump in and go but at the same time i didn't want to push them to do something they were not comfortable with. After the morning session of feeling my way around things everything seemed to find its groove. So far we have been working on getting the area around the great house, and the hardy house fixed up to house people for the 50th Anniversary. Lots of filling in holes, sanding, painting, scraping. They are doing a great job. On Monday night after getting in on a New Years Eve service we joined the work team for a Party to welcome in the new year with games, food and fellowship. It was fun. But as soon as midnight hit we were all so tired and had to work the next day so we all quickly found our beds. God has blessed us with a great first work team and its been fun to get to know them as I have an opportunity to jump in a work with them. I am also thankful that we are starting off with easy jobs such as painting so that I don't have to worry about inexperience on my side. I hope you are all having a great week. I love you and miss you. Happy New Year! Be blessed and be a blessing -Erin-