Today was a good day. We got out at 7 and went to finish up hauling the logs to the street at the house we were at yesterday. Then our group went to join the rest of the team who had descended upon a lower income neighborhood that I helped assess last Sunday. Pictured below is Allyce, who was elected Safety Queen for the day and the jobsite leader Kit and team leader Ellen.


We worked on all 4 homes we had on our list and got all of them done except 2 and a half rooms in one. That one is shown below and you can see her neighbor wasn't very fortunate.


Once again we were reminded of how our service here is making a huge difference in the lives of the people. The faith-based groups are the only ones doing this kind of work for free. They would have to fend for themselves or pay somebody to do the work for a large fee. The woman above was quoted $2400 for just 2 rooms. They are so incredibly grateful and really want to do something for us like buy us food. Some people we've helped have donated money to Trinity to help continue the work it is doing for the community.

At the end of the day, I found a new friend though he wasn't too keen about being held. He was such a cute little gecko; I wanted to keep him but I didn't know how to get him home on the plane tomorrow.


Once we got back, we had a weenie roast for dinner but our fabulous cooks also made chili and more baked beans and one of the church members who normally cooks us pancakes quite often made an upsidedown pineapple cake. What a meal! We even had a few trick or treaters stop by to gather some candy from us. It was a great fellowship meal.