Last day of relaxing

Hey guys! Well, tonight I have some free time, as it will be our last day of relaxing before we start our actual work projects tomorrow. About 30 people will be demo-ing a home, some will be working at God's Katrina Kitchen serving up food along with love, and I'll be helping out with getting ready for VBS. I'll work two weeks of VBS total, 3 weeks of construction jobs, and the last week will be at the Kitchen. Hours for working at the kitchen are 4:30am-2:00pm, so that should be a good time! haha...most other jobs start at 8am, usually. But I'm looking forward to starting working. I'm actually close to getting everyone's names down, but it's not quite there yet. hmm...other than that.... we'll be studying 1 John this summer, which i'm excited about looking into. I've read it I believe, but not done a study on it. It will be about living out your Christian life, I think. So walking your talk, which everyone can be challenged in. Oh, and Joy, don't worry...there's a true UNL cornhusker here to represent Nebraska for you.
Well, I don't really have much to say. It's still really hot and humid all of the time.

The town, as a whole, really is destructed. You can't go anywhere without seeing the effects of Katrina. Our project leader mentioned that this is when it gets really depressing for the people in the area. They got through the hard part of living afer the hurricane, but they're getting tired of living in FEMA trailers and not being able to see work on their houses. The woman that we're demoing for tomorrow recieved 5,000 to rebuild her house. Needless to say, that wouldn't even cover getting her old house out of the way, let alone rebuilding a new one. So that's where most of the people are at. Everyone I've talked to from here (which hasn't been many yet) has been really friendly. I think they really appreciate the work that we'll be doing for them, which is awesome.

Oh, and one thing that our project director mentioned yesterday is that the people down here who are not Christians are acknowleding and appreciating all of the work that Christians are putting into the area. One non-Christian said that if it weren't for the Christians coming here, nothing would be getting done. So yeah, that's pretty sweet that the body of Christ can move in a way that other people can recognize and appreciated, even if they don't understand why or how.

Ok...I'm off for now.
Love ya'll!
alyssa