Day Three

Day three proved to be a tough day for a handful of our team members. Several were sick and throwing up in the morning, from heat exhaustion. Mississippi has seen record temps this week. Luckily by the end of the day, most were back to feeling well and enjoying their time here.

There were two work sites that our team would be working on. The first was a city block, in downtown Smithville, where the houses were gone, but debris still needed to be removed.

The second site was the home of Mr. Estes. He had lost his parents, and Aunt in the tornado. The siding on his home needed to be replaced. Someone had donated the soffit for the siding, and he just needed someone to put it up for him.

Pastor Joey divided our team up into two crews to go and work these sites.

Later in the day, the team that had been working on the city block, moved over to the warehouse to sort clothes, while the crew installing the soffit continued to work on Mr. Estes' home.

As always, with this bunch, a little fun was in order.

The FEMA rep who was in the area, told Pastor Joey that our team had done such a wonderful job cleaning up the fields on Monday, that they would be able to bring in the trailers for temporary housing much sooner than expected! Praise the Lord!