Mississippi Semester: November 2008

Well I am home and this semester flew by! It was bitter sweet to leave. I loved being in Mississippi, but missed my family and Daniel! To finish out, we had a week without volunteers so Leah and I worked hard on the church. We then had a week of volunteers, who almost finished roofing the house, but unfortunately ran out of shingles, and they also almost finished siding the Smith house! For my last week in Mississippi, we did a little bit of work, but my Mom came on Wednesday, to help me pack and drive, and then Thursday we went to Ocean Springs, which was just a fun little downtown place. Thursday night we went to a restaurant where they had a fireplace and we got s’mores!! Being in Mississippi was great; I learned so much and grew up some too! Thank you everyone for all your prayer and support!

In His Name

~Sarah

Leah, Matt, Me, Jesse, Annette (The McBrides)

Volunteers on the roof

S'mores!!!!

So I haven’t updated in a very long time! Sorry about that! Well what has happened since I did last update? First I went home for a week and got to see everybody, which was great and the break was needed! The week that I came back, Leah and I just worked on the church and some other small projects. It has been cool to be able to be in the field and at a desk as much as I have! The next week we had a group of volunteers from Pennsylvania working on both sites, oh and Leah had gone to Virginia, to work on things for the design build studio, the first of that week so I was running both sites. Thank goodness for Annette! She really helped the first day because I couldn’t be at both sites at once! It was a crazy couple of day, but good and it is good to know that I am prepared for this when it comes my turn to run it all. Then my parents came on Wednesday! We got to build a deck of the back of the Smith’s house. It was so much fun to work with them, so now next summer when they want to build something I can design it and tell them how to build it. Ha ha just kidding mom and dad. But they had to leave and go back to the real world. So the Saturday they left, the McBride’s had a small thank you party for the people who had helped build their house. I made a fruit creation, see picture!

The next week the same volunteers were here, which made it very easy! They got a lot of work done on both houses; it was exciting to see both houses getting worked on! As I had mentioned earlier Leah and I are working on designing a church, Trinity Episcopal Church. This past Sunday, since Leah left me again, I presented our design proposal to the church. I was very surprised to not get nervous! I felt that the presentation went very well, and the church body is just excited to get back in their church after 3 years. Oh and a side note. Jesse, Leah’s brother, got a puppy because he just got a new house. So there is a picture of Sadie here too! Well I think that catches everyone up! I have less than three weeks, but I will be coming back for Spring Break with Daniel, and the BCM!

In His Name,

~Sarah