Progress!

Since I last wrote on Tuesday, a lot has been done.  On Wednesday we did more prep work and other various tasks which needed to be done because the supplies had not yet arrived.  I was given a special task of filling in a hole in the wall with stones and mortar, which was very fun, kind of like a puzzle without a set solution.  On Wednesday night a friend of ours from a couple hours away came to celebrate my birthday with us. :) On Thursday the supplies started coming, but we had planned a trip across the border to Guebwiller, France so we could see the work that we would be doing for the first 3 weeks of July and also meet with the missionaries in whose house we will be staying and for whose cats we will be caring. On Thursday night some missionaries from France, with whom Wesley had stayed for a week about a month ago, came over for dinner and told us some crazy stories about their kids. (All four of their sons are in missions, three of them in Africa.) Friday we started the real work, gluing insulation onto the wall.  We made a lot of progress on Friday, so I thought that we would probably finish on Monday, but I was only sort of right. On Friday night we had dinner at the home of some missionaries from College Church and had fun playing with their girls, and then we went to the dwelling of some other missionaries and watched Germany beat Greece in the Eurocup quarterfinals.  Yesterday we finished gluing the insulation to the wall except for a small 5cm gap at the top.