Day Three — Ben Giguere and Kelsey Wehr

The mission trip, up until now, has been quite an experience – it has known no shortage of exciting events and inspirational moments. Today has been the second full day at Neon, Kentucky. We have finished the demolition of the house we were assigned to. The destruction of a house within two days has brought a great morale boost to the group – Seeing as the normal destruction of such a house would take around five days. Tomorrow we are to move onto a new project, and rumor has it that we are doing drywall of some sort. No promises are being made, however, so the verdict waits until the morning. I seem to be growing out of my shell every passing day at these mission trips and the trip to tall oaks – which most definitely is a good thing.

-Ben Giguere

After a very productive but long day of work, we loaded up the vans and headed back to our bunk house. I’m always amazed at just how dirty we get, but after cleaning up, dinner crew started to fix a Mexican food feast. They made tacos, fajitas, nachos and homemade guacamole. It was great! After dinner, we loaded up the vans and headed to Mike Johnson’s Ice Cream Shop to celebrate Ben Giguere’s birthday. We then headed to Dollar General to do some shopping and finally back home to hang out.

Later, we gathered again for worship. Worship is one of my favorite parts of mission trip. In our small and intimate services, we are able to talk about and reflect on the day. What went well, what did not. What was funny, and what was difficult. I think worship, more than any other daily event, brings us together the most. It is in worship that we are most comfortable with each other. It creates the awesome bonds that only mission trip can.

After worship, a few more laughs and games finished up our evening. I’m completely exhausted but still excited for the work we will be able to do tomorrow.

-Kelsey Wehr