Team #2 - Day 4

What a day today. In our devotion tonight with the team we were asked to give one word to describe the day. Answers were; undescribable, life-changing, worship, inspirational, affirming, and others.

We worked on the church today. We started off extra early since Julie woke everyone up at 6am on accident, for some reason she thought it was 7am and thought we were late. The painting project continued on with great progress being made. The bathrooms are looking great. I was amazed to find out that this church and pre-school went on for two years without having a working bathroom.

We also tackled the job of cleaning up the yard of the church. It was overgrown and it appeared someone had cut down some overgrown trees from the neighbors yard and just left them there. We moved lots of brush and leaves, raked up broken glass, removed lots of broken concrete, dug out some stumps, and cleaned out the ditches. We originally negotiated for a guy with a dump truck to come and haul the stuff away. He originally thought it would take one load. Instead, it ended up taking three oversized loads. It was hot and we seen some huge spiders and lizards. I admit, I even screamed like a little girl once. In my defense, it was a really big lizard.

I also got to drive a van with a stick shift. The steering wheel was on the opposite side of the van and they drive on the left hand side of the road. How I got to the hardware store and back with out stalling out or getting in an accident was only by the grace of god.

The people of Antigua are very friendly and welcoming. The christians here are filled with the joy that only Christ can bring. They have so little, but they know they are so very blessed because they have Jesus. But even the non-christians we have met have been friendly. We got to talk to some guys working on cars up on car repair corner tonight. They were great telling us about their cars and the races. Greg was totally into it talking about flux capaciters and muffler bearings and all that other car stuff. The only thing I knew was that they were fast and I wanted to drive one.

I am so very glad that I was able to come on this trip. I have truly been blessed and this has been life changing for me. We like to hear your comments on the blog, so please send them to us.