Indy week!

This week was our first full week! It was great! Monday through Thursday we worked 8 hrs a day. I slagged the fence most of that time, which involved playing with the machine and sorta getting it to work, but finally calling up the pro, Randy. He sold us our machine and knew pretty much everything there is to know about slagging. So, turns out our machine was not firing with enough pressure, and both nozzles at the front were worn down way too big. So he took our machine to fix it, and has ordered the nozzles. Another bonus is that David also ordered 2 more new slaggers! Now we can have 3 people slagging at a time and it will be way more fun! (If thats possible.) One day while the slagger was broken I moved boxes from the top floor of this mansion to to basement, 3 flights of stairs! The best part of that was going on the roof of the mansion, 3 stories up. We got pictures:

That's the front door to this mansion I'm living in!

Here you can see the auditorium which used to be a chapel when the nuns owned it, and the school in the back.

So work's been great.

This week the talks were on manliness; kind of a counter cultural way of looking at it, but I won't go into details. Another thing we did this week in free time was playing quadrat, a sweet soccer 4-square combination game. It was great to have a bunch of guys out there playing. I think we had 11 at one point. Another day after work we took a pile of bricks and made a bridge because David didn't think we could. So to prove him wrong we built a bridge expanding a 4 brick gap, and then to rub it in a bit we had him stand on it, and it held! After that we used them as dominoes, and made a nice long course that... sorta worked. (See the video) Just another couple examples of what happens when life is in common and everyone's free time is the same time!


Brick Dominoes!

And these are the Kane kids, William and Leo, watching Chris on the tractor. They are the coolest kids ever who love to come over and watch us work. Its so fun!

The highlight of the week though, by far, was our trip to Indianapolis to help out the missionaries there, my brother included! On Wednesday David informed us that we were leaving the next night for Indy, right after dinner. So Thursday we packed our small rubbermade totes full of work clothes, dress clothes, and a sheet, along with work boots and a pillow into a car and a van and set off for Indy. We arrived at 11 and went to bed, sleeping on the floor with just a sheet and pillow, missionary style! We woke up for an hour of prayer at 6 and started work by 7:30 without breakfast, fasting missionary style! Our work was demolition on a newly acquired house of theirs down there. By the end we had overfilled our dumpster and made a few dump runs with the truck with sheetrock, doors, flooring and trim taken out of this very old house. I spent a good chunk of the time hanging a couple doors with David. It was great, we had to make the opening bigger for the front door so I had to split the 2x4's on the side vertically with a circular saw, using the saw in the exact wrong way. But we got it done without much injury, and it looks great and the house is ready for action trips to start work on it!

The dumpster full of junk.

Me hangin a door. Yes I haven't shaved in a while.

The finished, brand new door!

Friday night we had a cookout in the South Side neighborhood. There were over 150 people there, and over half of them were kids! One of their new activities is bringing together the kids and teaching them bible stories and performing skits with them all. The Lord has been calling them to this and its been working great, as could obviously be seen at the cookout. Saturday night we had a gigantic Lord's Day, with 0ver 50 people! Afterwards we played some cranium, soccer, and had a fire! It was an awesome evening. Sunday was church (with an abnormal amount of pastries!) and then swimming at the Porter's pool! They were generous enough to let all 20 or so of us use their pool. Another great time with all the guys. Now I'm back in South Bend and very tired after a long, awesome week.

Praise God! Keep checkin!