june 17

June 17

While eating breakfast we heard a knock on the door which was kind of interesting since we are in the middle of nowhere and don’t the language. As it turns out, the men that were there were coming to install the phone so all was well and now camp has a phone, which is pretty cool. It is a wireless phone that is still a base phone but it does not use cables but instead the signal is sent like a mobile phone. Crazy. Our main project today was cleaning and organizing the kitchen. This was a task was right in my direction. While Brandon and Romix (just to make sure no one is getting confused, Romix is a nickname for Romans so this is why I keep changing back and forth. So Romans = Romix. Same person. Ok…continuing…) while they were messing with pipes and building a structure for support for one of the stoves and screwing this huge cabinet into the stone, I got to rearrange and make sure everything had a place. And wash a whole lot of dishes. But it went very well and the kitchen is much cleaner now and junk free! Agate had a friend with her today so she was occupied all day and we all got a lot of work done. Brandon was a champ and took on mowing some more a little while after lunch and it looks pretty awesome now by the apple orchard. Romans and I broke out the chainsaw and went to town on the trees lining the drive (and by that of course I mean he did and I showed him where to cut). We (Romix and I – Brandon was still mowing) found a table from Denmark that had an amazing finish on it in the dining hall that was missing a leg, so we screwed it back and put it in the “living room” of what is affectionately known as the “Alabama House” (where we are staying) and it looks great there. Camp is feeling more like a home every day. Romix and I also found a pet cat today (2 hours later and Brandon was still mowing) that we fed and named Diesel and he is now the official Camp Wesley cat. Around 10:30 the girls were hungry again (lunch was at 4:30) so I made some dinner and called the guys in from their yard work (Romix had gotten out the weed eater by this point and you guessed it, Brandon was still mowing) to eat and watch the beautiful sunset. Romans has told us how thankful he is for us being here, but we just pray that we can have a some impact on him and Agate while we are here and that Christ will shine through us as we live with them day to day and go on this journey together following the will of God and we ask that you pray the same.