All right, today. I did feel very productive today. We went to my sister's house and helped her out with many projects. The things I did include:
painting the walls of the stairs to the basement
shimming a door and adjusting the door handle to make it latch right
painting a door frame
Removing various hooks, a towel dispenser, and a cabinet from the walls of the laundry room
holding a clamped rod while my sister cut it
hanging a rod in the coat closet
painting the door frame again
painting one of the stair walls again
Yeah, it was exciting :-) It reminded me of the time I built a house. This calls for a mission story! So, there's this family, and the father died. In the Philippines the viewing is often at the person's house. This family was very poor and their house wasn't that big, it was like, one room built of cinder blocks and then extended out with wood and tarps and stuff. In order to get the coffin into the house they kind of disassembled half of it (but it was still too small so they ended up putting him in their neighbor's house). Then they were still left with a half-disassembled house . . . so after the funeral for a service project my companions (Sister Molino and Sister Lemonsito) and I helped them build it back up! It was great. We found some long boards and nailed them up to things like a tree and an old bed frame, and filled in gaps with odd sized wood and tarps. Then we put some long boards up vertically and made a roof with one piece of corrugated steel, some pieces of bamboo, and more tarps. It was wonderful to be out working and serving like that, and they loved it too. Anyway, here's a picture.
On the left is a member that helped us, Regie. In the back is a neighbor, Dolores. There at the right is Sister Loreta David and 3 of her kids, Jennifer, Lorna and her youngest boy
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