rachel guthrie monday day 1

hey everyone, i'd like to begin by thanking everyone once again to helping us being able to come on this trip. It's very appreciated and i wish you could all be here to excperience what we do, you never fuller understand unto you are down here doing it for yourself. I wish you could all be here with us.
Day 1 - saturday : well the ride was great besides that fact that the van i was in had no air... being in a van with the same people all day crowded and sweating isn't the best, but totally worth it. When we finally got to the church we were staying at we got to finally get out of the van and walk around, we had a nice dinner and a devotions for the day.
Day 2 - sunday : We appreciate greatly the nice breakfest from the church memebers and the good service, the service was very nice. After the service we got back on the road. Another few hours yet again with no air! When we got here it was nice to get here and get settled in. Playing cards, eatting dinner and socialishing the rest of the night. A goods night sleep was nice.
Day 3 - Monday : Today we got our projects assigned. We have mainly three projects, but i think we will be done with both by tomorrow afternoon it not then by thursday and lunch! Right now there are two main projects, we split into two groups. The group i am in is with my dad (steve), pastor dan, ryan , diana ( a group or three that we picked up she is the mother, her daughter was also in our group, Remy) myself, delicia, amelia, rachel t, kendra, ralph, josh ( who is friend's grandson) crissy. It was a nice combination of older/comebackers and new people on the team. When we arrived at our site we meet our home owner, he was nice and happy that we were there to help, a team was there before and put siding up. When we got there we got right to work, everyone got up on the roof and starting pounding and screwing.... thankfully god has us in his hands and no one has gone threw the roof...yet!! Today was deffenatally an interesting and frustarding day. Once we got working we ran into the problem of the screw gun battiers running dead, with an hour and a half to lunch we were down to one screw gun, so there wasn't much for anyone to day, a lot of people had nothing to do other then sit around, with is very boring to alll but once in a while we all have to do it so we all have a chance to work on the house. Once we got back from lunch the drills were all charged and we got right back to working. After about an hour or so we staring running out of screws, this being a problem. Our work site is about 15 minuets from our dorms/the settlement. There is a hardware store about 5 minuets from our site that provides everything with the settlement. My dad, diana , remy and i jumped in the van for a drive to the store. Once we got back there were no more problems beside a minor one. Our new friend and help remy got stung by an inscet of somesort and is having and allerigic reaction. she is fine and drugged up now just resting for the time being. Everyone had a good day. It was very hot so we are hoping that it is a little cool tomorrow but we are lucky enough that our site is somewhat in the shade compared to some of the past years.

We are all hoping you are keeping us in your prays. we are having a good time and can't wait to tell everyone about everything when we get back to the state.

Thank you again so very much.

keeping looking for updates on blogs from other people and from more about other days.

- Rachel Guthrie -

god bless you all !!! :)