The work begins

My last post was from Sunday sometime. In the off chance that the days are confusing any of you I'm referring to the days as we experience them over here, the time change being fourteen and a half hours; so we're a day ahead. Monday was our first day of work and needless to say we were both quite excited to get started. After sitting on different airplanes for twenty three hours and lounging in different airports for several days we were more than ready to start working. We don't have an alarm in our room because our adapter can't run anything that requires more than 120v, which includes our alarm clock. Luckily for us we have been waking up with the sun at about 6:45, it rises earlier but doesn't make it over the hill until than.

As we learned monday morning, every monday and thursday we meet at 8:30 to find out which cleaning duties have been designated our way. As expected, they gave the new guys bathroom duty. Lucky for us we've both experienced camp cleaning and this really wasn't a stretch. After cleaning duties are done we meet for a time of worship and prayer with all the staff. A lot of our time was spent asking ourselves where has God called us into ministry and more specifically, why presently at YWAM? It was a good time for me to think about my various involvements at home, not only 'where is God calling me?' but to what extent. After worship and prayer we had morning tea, yes, morning tea at about 11:30; than we started work. Our first job designation was to help two other guys here at the base build a large sandstone retaining wall. The base is a nice place but most definitely needs some TLC in places, so this is a good start. Tuesday was followed by more of the same thing but without the meeting and cleaning in the morning. If I could take one thing from home at this point it would have to be a tractor. Manual labor is alright, but moving several tons of soil for backfill with a small trailer and a few minuscule shovels seems a little ludicrous to me.

It is now tuesday evening and in accordance to the previous nights we've spent here in Adelaide, I'm quite tired. Our first two days of work have been quite productive and I'm eagerly looking forward to the other jobs they'll have us do. They just found out today that I'm capable of cooking, so we'll see how far that makes it. As for now I would appreciate your prayers for both health and energy. Graham and I both left the country with colds and the time change has not been a help; it would seem that we are getting better though. Feel free to give us an email or leave a comment if you have any prayer requests of your own. We, as well as others here, are more than willing to remember you in our prayers. God bless all of you in whatever it is He has planned for you. Thanks so much for your continued prayers and encouragement. Heaps of love.