..and then we all became rednecks

Day 3...twas only a small breeze.
What a productive day! We finished the framing for the first floor and evened out all the walls then we worked our way up! We pulled and pushed beams and plywood to the top to be nailed in. I must say I am going to have some big biceps when this week is over. Those were some heavy pieces of wood! Our lunch was catered by a local Habitat home owner named Bernard and Kevin. The lunch was so amazing and they were so nice to bring it out for us!

Putting boards down on the top ^

                                                                       From the front^

Everyone left at the end of the day with a bit of color to cheeks, necks, ears and arms. The aloe vera has been passed out all evening. After working we went back to our cabins and showered real quick to head out again. We started to head out to West Market United Methodist church for dinner but realized we were really early because we read the time wrong, so instead of turning around we turned into a parking lot by a near by lake and got a chance to hang out there. The guys immediately started throwing rocks and trees into the lake, of course, but it was so beautiful to just to be outside in the sunshine.

We arrived at the church and ate a delicious dinner catered by Olive Garden and who can ever go wrong with soup, salad and breadsticks?!? We got a chance to talk to a bunch of people in the congregation and got to hear testimonies of their recent missions trip to Kenya. I loved hearing the one story of how one woman was giving medicine and caring for the injured and sick and one woman came in with a really damaged and infected leg. She had no idea what to do but they decided to wash her feet. Just a simple act of washing this woman's feet just showed that they cared. It made me think of the scripture in John 3:30 "He must become greater, I must become less." Just having a servants heart. Working on this house is hard and tiring but knowing what we are doing it makes me do it with a good attitude even when I miss the nail and hit my thumb with the hammer, even when the sun is beating down hard, and even when your arms feel like they are going to give out when you are trying to hold up heavy beams of wood. It is a good reminder to become less in order for His light and love to shine through.