Our arrival

Our work-team arrived at D'iberville on March 15, 2009 (the day after pi day and two days before St. Patrick's day) at 5:30pm. After two long days of travel and visiting with our friends in West Memphis, we were glad to be welcomed into our new home with a potluck dinner and program by the youth of Heritage UMC.

We fought tooth and nail for our bunks, settled ourselves in, and made friends with others from Illinois, Delaware, Georgia, and others.

After a great night's rest, the morning brought us a few job prospects and energies with which to tackle these. The green grass and colorfully aromatic flowers passed us by as we drove to our first home--Tammy's house. We had been informed of the tree, but we did not realize exactly how big this full-grown tree was leaning on Tammy's mobile home. Other workers had been to the site previously to put up a few walls, but as the tree fell on the trailer, there was little we could do to help stop the leak and fix the trailer until the tree was toppled and cleared. Clearly, this job was too much for us to handle! We did stay to speak with Tammy and her husband (Tammy's neice was a bit too shy to talk with us, but we thought her large toy gun was very cool!) We helped to clear the yard a bit in the midst of the rain and took a trailer of trash to the local dump with the help of Dick from Heritage.

We left Tammy's house a bit let down, humbled, and hopeful for a job where God could use us. Wilford's house was just the thing! More to come in our next post....