Work Day #2

Anna Smith:

Today the weather was perfect!!! The clouds shaded the sun and made my group’s job more enjoyable (not like it wasn’t already). My group consisted of a bunch of high school girls and my youth leader’s wife. We made it our priority to stain a deck. We had fun painting it on the deck and ourselves. It was a messy job. But we all had a great time hanging out and getting dirty. Who’s up for workday # Three!!!!!

Ryan Nelson

Day 2 of work and our group has almost finished setting the shelter in the new location. We started the day by measuring out where the shelter would go. After Jeff finished measuring every angle there is (and then some) we began to dig. The ground in Idaho is very rocky and hard to dig. A lot of the rocks were about the size of a big potato and the posthole diggers we used didn’t do much. We found that slamming giant crowbars into the ground loosened the dirt which could then be picked up with the posthole diggers but the crowbars are NOT light and after awhile they get really heavy.

Anyway, after the holes were dug we attached boards to the shelter. At around 11:30 everyone got together to move the barn. It took 32 people to move the barn but we did it. Jeff even had a whip.

At this point we only had half the holes we needed so we started to dig again. Somehow Abi always seemed to have the hardest hole whether it was the rockiest or the one that had to be the deepest she had the hardest hole to dig. Now that we finished the hole we had everyone pick the shed up and place it in the hole. It was pretty cool to see everyone move the whole shed.

Tomorrow we will be visiting a church in town and going to Eagle Island with the kids on the ranch. Keep praying for us.

Brandon Admire:

Today was off the hook crazy… during work time my group finished what was left to do on the basketball court. Yesterday we put up back boards, painted lines for the court, and dug holes. Today we finished up the back boards, and dug the holes the rest of the way and put in posts for tennis net! When it was all set and done we “tested” it with a few of the ranch kids and played an intense game of PIG. THEN we moved a barn. That’s right. A barn. It was epic on a grand scale (see video). But that wasn’t the crazy part. The crazy part was when we hung out with the ranch kids and played a game called face-smash. The game not only has an excellent name, but also combines the best of volley ball and dodge ball. It consists of bumping the ball three times and then smashing it at the people in the middle, and you get in the middle by messing up during the bumping process. It was intense. And violent. And O so much fun… the best way to describe it is off the hook crazy. And in the whole day of craziness no one has been seriously injured yet! So pray for our continued protection from harm’s way! :-D

Hey! yo people this is Joel Dodson,

Today at the ranch our group was finishing up a fence that we dug out of the ground and set it up somewhere else so the animals don’t get out. But the hard part I think that I got out of it was putting the barb-wire from the old fence that we tore down and put up with the other fence. The last thing that I did today was taking down two really big fence posts that we had to dig out of the ground. But what really got me so far on this trip was Steve’s POWERFUL message on joy. But the funny thing that Steve got us going with his message was a slide show of the 20 WORST album covers. Now tomorrow we get to go to church at eagle Christian and take a tour of Boise Bible College.