Well, we didn't finish the house. We were almost done at like 4:00 when we were told that we had to paint the cement base (and that included scraping it down, which took an extra long time because Craig [the other adult from Indy] had to go back to the church to get wire brushes). So we didn't start until about 4:15. Then we didn't finish until 4:45, so we just packed up and left.
At the house, my dad gave me the video camera and told me to record people working. I did that and also got some sho… Continue

On Tuesday we kept painting the house. We have almost finished the second coat (but there are some places that we haven't even done the first coat yet). We'll probably finish on Thursday.

Wednesday was our day off. We got to sleep in an extra hour. The announcement of that was met with much rejoicing.

We went to a coal mine/town and saw what a coal miner's life was like. Afterwards we went to a swimming pool and park. The guard for the slide let us go down in a big chain. It was awesome. Every… Continue

Church on Sunday was a fun time, with our group and about 5 other people. The entire service took about 35 minutes, and everybody was telling the two pastors to take a lesson from it. The joking stopped when Lance said something along the lines of, "If you write a sermon for me, I will preach it. That is the only way I will take less time on my sermon."

After lunch (which was after a LOT of confused wandering around a state park looking for each other) we all drove over to a swimming pool. Ther… Continue