Tremendous Thursday!

We’ve had a great day (part of what made it great was the long afternoon nap!) and we’ve just completed a wonderful supper of grilled hamburgers and hot dogs.  Now, with our full tummies, we’re waiting until a little later to go spend some time on the beach.  We haven’t had an opportunity to check out the beach and we’re going to have some fun for a few minutes then start a bonfire.  The beaches here are still being reconstructed and there are very few people on the beaches these days.  Again, everything is a little different from what you’d normally expect for a waterfront area during June.

We’ve had great response from our supervisors at FBC.  It was exciting to see workers laying sod today in the very area that our crew worked preparing the topsoil on Monday and Tuesday.  The work crew yesterday had to battle mud from the rain on Tuesday night.  The crew today got to do most of their work during a very nice rainstorm–they were soaked to the skin and their assignment was to water the young trees on the church property!  Needless to say, they did an excellent job.

After we return from the beach, we’ll do our final clean up and get ready to pull out about 8 am tomorrow.  We have a very full day including a tour of the New Orleans Seminary campus, a swamp tour on airboats and spending some time in the French Quarter.  An update on tomorrow’s events will probably come later tomorrow night.

You have much to be proud of with respects to our students.  They have conducted themselves well and been extremely flexible when having to adjust to schedule change.  Please continue praying for travel safety–we’ll be taking Perla to the airport tomorrow afternoon to fly to Houston for a piano festival.  She plans to rejoin us on Sunday morning for our final concert of this year.