The mowers got fixed...sort of

     While our focus this week is on relationships we do have a few tasks that we have been asked to accomplish.  Yesterday we made progress with the lawn mowers. We got the riding mower working and one of the push mowers working...sort of. The push mower made several stops at the "mower shop" throughout the process. We got the yard around the church mowed and the fruit orchard.  We still have the cemetery grass to mow as well. One of the community members, Debbie, is coming to pick up the guys with the mowers today to go mow her yard. We have our small jobs to do, but we stop whenever folks come around so we can have a cup of coffee or dessert. We have also started to weed the garden that was planted some weeks ago by a youth group that was here on Mission.

     Once we had a saw in hand James took to sawing the points on the crosses for the cemetery. They delivered them to the cemetery and Byron will place them at a later date.

      Throughout the day we had several visitors. We always seem to have children around but, today most of the kids that came by were brought by a grandmother or another family member. So, while the kids were playing outside the team was able to visit with the adults around the table.

     Bryon and Toni came by tonight and took several guys and children up to the lake to go fishing.  Pictured below are Byron and Nathaniel cleaning some of the fish.  Later Chip worked on cleaning some after these two had to leave.

     I had the opportunity to go with Justin deLeon, a PhD. student from the University of Deleware as he interviewed Toni. He is out here this summer doing research for his dissertation. He is also a documentary filmmaker so he is using those skills to create some marketing pieces for Toni and Byron and helping create some material that Toni can use as she speaks at different events.  we went to a great spot down by the river. Below is Toni and Justin during the interview.