Popcorn and paint

Outside Wilford's home!

Inside Wilford's foyer looking to his kitchen

Earlier today we found out the professional texturizer and team last night did not completely go as planned. But, this allowed several people on our team to enjoy playing with a new toy! Let me explain....

Last night several members of our team returned to Wilford's home to help another team texturize his walls. Unfortunately, there were minor complications with the texture and tools that forced the teams to stop their texturizing late last night and return home. This morning, with new ideas and hope for fixing these problems, the team went to Lowe's to purchase o-rings to fix the texturizing gun. This combined with a borrowed generator and hose allowed our team members to play, and work, to finish the texture on Wilford's house. The team then moved on to lay wonderboard and tile in Wilford's bathroom.

Meanwhile...the other half of our team was out at Marilyn's home to paint. After talking with her last night to scope out the prospective job, we found out that she and her mother had been swindled out of thousands of dollars. Previous employers were paid in full but never repaired or painted her home. The painters that finally did paint her home did not do a very good job and painted it the wrong color. Recently her mother hired a new painter to put on an eggshell color--the color she first wanted. The painter was hired in December, but the house is still not painted. Our crew showed up, taped around the windows and floors, and got to work.

The women returned to the church at around 3pm to cook a community meal. After cleaning up, we got to work on making a mexican casserole, salad bar, and apple dumpcake dessert. Everything was going as planned...at the beginning. The girls gathered to each make a dumpcake--two with nuts, two without. After sticking the cakes in the oven, we turned to the casseroles. We smelled smoke before we saw anything. After scouring the kitchen for the cause, we realized the dumpcakes were over-flowing and falling onto the tin foil on the bottom of the oven. It was probably the pan that was set on top of the foil that set the fire, but...we're not quite sure. After snapping the picture, we made sure to stop the fire, clean out the oven, and stop the alarms without setting off the sprinkler system. We did save the dessert and it ended up having a very authentic cookout taste!

Last, I promised to update you on the tour around Wilford's church. Yesterday part of our team was able to use Wilford's bathrooms in his newly renovated church. (Wilford is the pastor for this church). The water came through the church and destroyed all of the pews and flooring. We saw the huge remodel that had been done by previous groups and funded partially by the Bush-Clinton grant. We also saw the old church where parishoners needed to take a man in a wheelchair to wait out the storm. Wilford told us the story about how they needed to take the man on the chancel, on top of the amplifiers, and hold up his head. It was quite an amazing church and story! Here are pictures.