End of Day One

It's 9:15 pm right now We're about to go to bed. The girls have yet to put in a full day of work, but the we're still adjusting to the time change. We should be back to normal by tomorrow!

In the morning we start painting - we taped everything off this morning. The boys are super fast at putting down those cobblestones! They're already about halfway done! It's looking SO pretty! Bro. Heath has been painting the outside their house - light yellow! He's been way, way up in the air on scaffolding that he and some of our guys put together. Better him than me! It's connected to the church, which is a brighter shade of yellow, and it's so, so pretty. I've decided I'm going to come home and paint Cornerstone yellow!

There are 3 boys in their neighborhood that have been helping all day so the guys have made some friends. I think it's improving their German and it's fun to watch the American/German interaction

Listening to the Germans speak is so much fun - I have no idea what they're saying, but I love to hear it! They've been trying to teach us some words, but they're hard for us to pronounce, and I can't remember them! Drew's been trying the hardest, I believe. We got off the plane with him saying "Wie gehts dir" (it sounds nothing like it's spelled) which means "How are you?" After they said "Gut" and asked him the same, he said "Gut". He responds to everything they say with "Gut, gut." It's a start! We're all trying to learn some of it!

In church tonight we sang three songs. The group sang "Farther On" the quartet sang "To Canaan's Land" and then the group sang "Oh, how I love Jesus". As a congregation we sang "An Can it Be" and "I'm a Soldier of the Cross." We had to try to sing the second song in German, but I think we just hummed. It was terrible. Bro. Mark said we have to learn "An Can it Be" in German by Sunday. Pray for us! ;)

After church Paul showed us his braiding skills with this yarn curtain thing they have hanging in a doorway. Drew put it on his head like Rapunzel and we sang a song from Tangled to him.

Tomorrow after work is done for the day, we're leaving around 6 in groups to hand out flyers. We'll be doing the same on Saturday night. They're trying to get a lot of people to church on Sunday and I think a lot of them are lost. Please pray that we will be an example of the joy of the Lord and that they will see Jesus through us!

Right now we're all sitting in the living room Skyping with Mrs. Lorrie, Connor, and Delanie. We're eating chocolate, looking at pictures from today and  nodding off (I am, anyway.)

I'm going to go to bed now. Enjoy the pictures!

From the top going down: Bro. Heith, Drew, Paul, and J.D.