Tuesday in Galveston Texas.
Once you read the update you can check out the pics that will be up on the facebook page soon!
Today was a good day. We spent time in 3 different areas today. 2 of them were the same as the day before, however one of them was brand new to us. We were invited to go and work at a homeless shelter and Mission in Galveston. We will hear from the students on each of those sites after i share what else we have been up to.
We have been getting up at 6:45 the past two mornings and having breakfast by 7am. (this morning was breakfast burritos. AWSOME). Then at 7:30 We have a time or worship with Noel. He does a great job at inviting us into a time of Worshiping God together. Then Ken shares with us stories from the lives of people who had intimate moments with Jesus. He then sends us out for about 20 minutes of quiet time for us to process what we have heard and what we are experiencing during this trip.
Report from Taylor. she was at the Homeless Shelter. " We arrived and Sam had us rake up cigarrette butts out of the alley way right next to the shelter. She shared with us that someone donated a bunch of gum and she kept saying to us "if ya'll want some gum just holler". We painted the storage houses and the houses in the back that had been vandalized. We got to serve people soup and bread as they came in for lunch. They do this every day. Then a guy named Rabbit came in and it was his birthday yesterday. So we decided to bake him some brownies, but we couldn't find him, so they will give it to him tomorrow. And we were able to do some cleaning in the shelter, wiping down the tables and kitchen. Then Steve (another worker) handed me a broom, and said he wanted me to clean the spider webs, he told me "I am afraid of spiders" He was a big guy. It was pretty funny.
Report from Daniel. He was with Brittany's team at one of the houses we were at yesterday. When we first arrived we spent time sand papering the walls, there were a lot of bumps still and it needed to be flat. Johnathan and I were then putting up some drywall in one of the rooms that we have spent a lot of time in so far. I took a brush and cleaned the walls with it to get all the dust off that they sand paper left behind. Brittany and I then went outside and worked at scraping paint off the bottom of the deck. It was a good day. At one point we were taking down dry-wall and they were little pieces of dry wall and we were breaking them on our heads. it was fun!
Report from Lizzie. She was at the house up on stilts that we were working on dry walling yesterday. This is the Liz-Dog, well today was AWESOME!!! I got to hang out with Conor, Charles, Ben, and DON!!!! It twas amazing, Charles, Conor, and I worked on the taping of some walls we did of dry wall and finished the mudding on that. The three of us all got into a mudding fight, it was fun at the time but then the mud hardened and started cracking on our skins and became painful, but its okay I get to take a nice relaxing shower it... cold water .... :) but it's okay because it will wake me up, even though its like 4 o'clock p.m. Today, my life was changed, because Todd bought me....SONIC!!!!! It was awesome, because I got a slushie that you can't get anywhere else because sonic has it while others don't!
