We are in the third day and we have become best friends with Arlene, the lady who owns the house we are working on. She bought the house after she retired and had just completed remodeling, when Sandy hit with four and half feet of water in the first floor of her two-story house. She had the house raised with a garage underneath. The contractor quit in the middle of the project and UMCOR is trying to finish it with volunteers like us. The top floor is finished, and she invites us to eat our lunch in her dining room. She always has coffee and real silverware to eat with, and tells us of what Sandy did to the area. She has invited us and our spouses to stay overnight when she gets the house done.
We all decided before we left that we would all cook our favorite dinners. Well, mine was stuffed peppers, using my wife Dotty's recipe. The first night we bought roast chicken from the supermarket and I made the stuffed peppers the same night to have the next evening. Tonight we all pitched in and cooked spaghetti, with tossed salad and garlic toast. Bob was our salad man and Ron cooked the sauce. Kelly bought key lime pie. I know that we are all gaining weight, because there is a scale at the health club where we take our showers.
Everyone has a job to do and we all work as a team. The daily devotionals we do are very inspiring.
Pat Bradley
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