2nd Work Weekend

We arrived Saturday morning to find that three properties footings had been dug for us to work on.  We started out the morning by having our safety meeting on how to safely excavate.  Our first tasks was to clean up the loose dirt in the footings and move all the piles of dirt back 2 feet from the edge.  This was hard, because every time you bumped the edge of the footings more dirt fell. 

Lot 9 Saturday morning start.

Lot 6 Saturday morning start.

The supplies arrived.

    

Leticia digging.

Deena's parents came out to help Saturday and Sunday.

more digging.

Debbie had volunteers come out Saturday morning to help dig.

More digging.

Debbie and Jacob digging out footings.

More digging.

Debbie's house chalked out.

Finally, we finished the digging and moved on to setting forms. It was so hot be this time, two of the ladies went off and bought water and Popsicles for us to eat. This was a nice treat for our last break of the day. By the end of Saturday all 12 lots had there house chalked out, footings on 3 houses cleaned up, and forms going up on the first house.  We were coated with a mixer of sunscreen and dirt by the end of Saturday.

setting the first form.

At the end of Saturday.

Sunday, we started out by setting forms. We had to pull strings across the house to determine where the board should go. After the boards where up, we saw how much more digging we had to do. We needed 12 inches from the board to make up our footings. Some were right on and some required us to hand dig out alot (5 to 6 inches wide and 12 inches deep). Praise God that it was cooler on Sunday and we had an nice breezy. It made working easier.

First day we all had to wear our tool belts.

John looking at the forms.

Holding up the board to set the form.  It was super heavy.
We hold the board up as they figure out were the board should be on the stakes.

Forms set on 1st lot.

We pulled strings to help us set the forms.

Brandon helping set the floor level on his house

Deena and Michael looking at what we accomplished this week.

Us asking a question.

Lot 9 at the end of the weekend.

Thank you to the volunteers that came out on Saturday and Sunday to help us.  We so appreciate the help.

Prayer requests for this week:

1) Some of our neighbors are not happy that we are building houses here.  They have voiced this to some of us.  They feel like we are getting a  free house and we will bring down the property values.  Please pray for their hearts and ours.  Help us to show that we will be good neighbors and answer all their questions.

2) That as a team, we all will work together and get a lot done each week. 

3) We would all get along and we will have grace for each other.

4) Strength and energy for the people that have to work 40 hours during the week and then come out and work the weekends.

5) We would glorify God.  

Philippians 4:8-9

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

⁸ Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. ⁹ The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.