Elijah speaks :)

Hey it's Elijah here. It is my turn to make some comments about this trip. When we got here on Monday and saw the devastation my eyes were really opened because the News coverage was only on New Orleans and all of the damage their but didn't cover anywhere else. Their is a lot of commercial damage along the coast. We also saw some of the residential damage today and that is basically the same as what we saw on Monday.

The work we did the past three days was doing some drywalling and ripping out three rooms that had parkay flooring in them. Two of the three rooms were really coming up easy but the second one was a little bit harder to work with. Due to water damage it was spintering and didn't want to come up.

I was mostly involved with ripping the parquet flooring up and I also did a little bit of drywalling too. My hands are a little sore from holding the flat bar and hammering on it to lift the tile up. We also went to a older ladies house to remove all of the things in the garage and rip out the wall board on the bottom half and then we put everything back. Then after that we raked the next door neighbors front yard.

This whole trip has been a real big blessing for me because I got to help with the hurricane relief effort and the fact that all the people we have come into contact with have been real people and really nice to us. It has shown me that even though it has been six months past the hurricane people all over down here still need help and we see a lot of other church groups down here helping out the best that they can. Hope to see all of my family and friends when I get home.