Saturday morning we started out with our safety meeting. We then all got back to work where we left off last weekend. Brandon, Paul and Pat installing porch posts. John, Steve, Michael, David, Jacob working on garage headers. Carlos, Alfredo, and Andres working on porch headers. Evelyn, Naty, and Delilah working on painting boards. Patricia and Lupe working on the California valleys that go on the roofs. Jackie, Maria, and Leticia finishing up on the inside of the trusses. Andy, Tony, Luisa Wendy, Maria, and Maria's Mom working on shearing the trusses on lot 6. Debbie, Deena, Lynda, and I worked on adding shear boards to the gable ends of the trusses.
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| Debbie, Deena, and I getting in position to work on shear. |
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| The subcontractors working on my house. |
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| Trusses being delivered to lot 15. (Carlos and Jackie) |
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| Trusses being delivered to lot 14 (Leticia's) |
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| lot 10 My house with the final trusses up. |
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| The crew working on shear on the trusses of lot 6. (Alfredo and Naty's) |
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| My house. |
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| Lot 11 with trusses (Steve and Maria) |
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| Lot 13 garage header and porch headers going up. (Andres and Luisa's) |
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| Front porch posts done on Leticia's house lot 14 |
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| Lot 15 (Carlos and Jackie's) front porch posts in. |
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| My house with all the shear on. |
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| Lot 6 (Alfredo and Naty's) shear going on the roof. |
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| Lupe, Toby, and Patricia working on the California valley. |
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| Maria working on lot 6. |
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| Delilah, Maria, and her mom painting the front porches. |
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| Evelyn painting. |
Sunday morning the sub contractors continued to work on lot 11. The men worked on loading trusses on lot 12. The women worked on filling the roll-off full of trash. After lunch we were all back to the jobs we were doing the previous day.
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| Lot 11 getting the shear boards put on. |
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| Steve helping to load trusses on lot 12. (Evelyn's) |
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| Jeffery |
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| Moving trusses in to position to load. |
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| Debbie standing on top of the trash we filled to be removed. |
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| Pat and Paul working on lot 16 (Debbie's house). |
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| Brandon, Pat, and Paul on Debbie's porch. |
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| Steve and Maria's house getting fascia put on. |
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| John, Steve, Jacob, and Michael working on Evelyn's garage. |
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| Working on installing bolts on lot 13 (Andres and Luisa's) |
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| Steve and Maria's house at the end of the weekend. |
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| John and my house at the end of the weekend. |
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| Debbie's house at the end of the weekend. |
In all it was a good weekend. The weather was cooler both days, which was nice. Sunday was a windy day. So working on the ladders was a little more scary. It was great to see the house get fascia boards on. The houses look so beautiful. I am amazed at how blessed we are. God has given us a home beyond what we dreamed we would own.
Prayer Requests:
1) safety- most of us are on ladders or the roof.
2) Endurance and strength- we are tired
3) wisdom for Facio and Toby as they lead our group.
Sunday night after working all weekend, we get to go fellowship with our church family. This is such a blessing. We have been studying the book of Genesis. We have been discussing Joseph the last few weeks. This has been such a great reminder as we build are home and face many struggles that go with it. Some of the verses that keep coming up are James 1:2-4 and Romans 8. These verses have reminded me that my eyes need to be on God as we encounter different struggles.
2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Romans 8: 26- 39 Our Victory in Christ
26 In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; 27 and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? 33 Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; 34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Just as it is written,
“For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;
We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
