Fayetteville Mission Trip, Day 2: Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Hello all you blog enthusiast.  Thank you for keeping in touch with us and for praying for us. We need all the prayers we can get.

And now some things I forgot to say yesterday:

Happy Belated Birthday to Emily. The youngest member of our crew.  She is now old enough to do more than just stick on band-aids.  She turned 14 yesterday.!

Also, thank you to Elvis and Bill in van 1 and Carmen and Mel in van 2 for driving us here safely.  

This valiant roving reporter tried Jo's spicy Korean cucumbers at dinner yesterday.  As a journalist I felt it was my duty to try something new.  The cucumbers are not so bad.  I was tasting for the sake of curiosity and good reporting.

Also, Rev. Peter corrected me. I forgot the 4th commonly used expression from his sermon on Sunday.  "I can hardly wait..."  Like, "I can hardly wait for a trip to a colder climate."  We should be saying I can hardly wait for tomorrow's hot temperatures again so we can enjoy our day off outside.  

Last night, Tori, Carmen, Davis, Kyle and Mel, after much searching, found the billiard table! (It is in the library but you cannot see it from the door.)  Apparently they passed by the room several times without noticing the pool table in the back.

Now as for today, at the house on Vass Road, our team leader, Rick, continued to work hard/struggle to make the new doors fit in the old frames properly.  Lorene helped everyone and traveled to each site to take pictures including some below.  Myself and Davis continued to put baseboard on correctly.  We made less mistakes today.  The Vass house is now half-way done.  Tomorrow we hope to move on to hanging the kitchen cupboards.

The folks (Greg, Kyle, Sarah and Emily) at the Pierce Street house finished painting the walls, pulled up the old carpet and padding and began hanging the new ceiling fan.  Tomorrow they hope to lay the new flooring and finishing painting the trim work.

Carmen's group finished putting in new flooring in the house they were working on while Elvis' group continued to work on the roof which is now about half-way done.  

And now, things not to do while in North Carolina:  one should not leave their lunch outside of the cooler.  You will find it later, covered with ants.  Which means...... you may enjoy chocolate covered ants later.  It is a healthy, delicious, high protein snack.  Lesson learned (by Clark.).  

Special thank-you to our kitchen helpers who prepared delicious fajitas and tacos. They included Melanie and our delightful Korean trio. 

Just a reminder, you can take a shower whenever you want to but you cannot do your laundry until after 6:00pm.  

Carmen led devotions once again today.  We started with a beautiful hymn sung in English and Korean.  Son Chu, Jo and Soon sang "Precious Lord Take My Hand."  

And, we learned Jo has a wonderful story about how she came to Christ.  Before you ask her though, make sure you have a box of tissues.  The story brought Mel to tears.  

We are sporting our Presbyterian Disaster Assistance t-shirts, which we all wore after dinner (and the rain) for our group photo, with the Highland Church's steeple in the background. and have been promised a t-shirt from the Methodist Disaster Relief group.

As usual, God Bless you and keep you.  Thank you for reading this.  

This is your blog journalist Clark (and my skilled typing assistant Sarah), signing off until tomorrow.