7 more tursses banged out today. My man, Tenfortennra, was busy with other stuff so handed the reins over to me today. I have a couple more guys join my crew and we were able to make progress on the trusses. We should be able to finish them up in the morning and start raising the roof either tomorrow evening or Friday.

The last truss of the day was pretty fun. Andy (our group leader) and I were pretty tired of hammering nails all day (my elbow is killing me) so he came up with the great idea of asking the group if anyone wanted to pound any nails. So we pretty much had a group of girls trying to swing a framing hammer and bending a bunch of nails. It was hilarious, but they all enjoyed it and got to contribute to the cause. It was a great idea and gave us a much needed break.

We also had our first Kid’s Rally tonight. A few of the girls and the childern’s pastor from church went to an offsite location and put on a performance of sorts for the kids. Music, songs, puppets, and etc. They had around 120 or so children show up and they all had a great time. They did say it took a little while for them to warm up to the puppets as they had never seen anything like that before, but once they did they loved it! I believe they are doing it again tomorrow night and maybe one more evening if time allows.

All in all things are going well. There is still much work to be done, but I think everything is going great. Until next time…