We made it to Arad. We are having a great time hanging out with the other teams that are here. We started teaching English to little kids in a Be’er Sheva, about 30 minutes away. We have also been handing out some literature in a market place. My blog today is mainly about the events that happen December 17, 2009. Here is the run down.
7:30am- Team Fanatic walks to the retreat center for worship
8am- worship starts but the van is not at the retreat center
9am- I receive a call from our contact asking us to paint a lady’s house while we are in Be’er Sheva
9:30am – we are suppose to be leaving but the van is nowhere to be found, the credit card is lost (we need the credit card to buy the paint), and we don’t know how to get to the lady’s house
10am- we still haven’t left yet but the van is back
10:30am- we finally get on the road, only to find out that we need gas. We stop to get gas. It is much harder to buy gas in foreign countries when you don’t speak the language or read it.
11am – we call the guy that is meeting us in Be’er Sheva to let him know that we are on the road.
11:45am- we arrive and meet up with our contact and head over to the market.
12-1:30pm- we hand out booklets at the Bedouin Market
2pm- we drive to Ace Hardware to buy the paint but as I pull into the parking spot, I hit a parked car.
3pm- as we are trying to pay for the paint and supplies, the store will not take the credit card because we don’t have his ID. They eventually work it out and we get out of there.
3:45pm- after lunch we head over to paint the house.
4pm- we discover that we have only bought one scraper and we needed about 5 more because there is paint that is falling off the walls.
4:15- I head out with our friend that met us there to look for scrappers.
4:30pm- we are in the paint store again, and we get a call from the rest of the team asking us to buy some colored paint instead of just the white paint.
5pm- we are leaving the parking lot and someone smashes into his brand new car that he had just gotten this week.
5:45pm- we arrive back at the apartment to find that David and Daina have already painted one of the rooms white. So Danielle and I start painting another room, while the other guys start cleaning the rest of the mess that we had made.
6:30pm- both rooms are successfully painted two rooms and cleaned the rest of the house. We head out the door. We get in the car to go home and the car is dead. Fortunately, it started about 10 minutes later.
8pm- we arrive safely back at the retreat center.
A lot of people would consider this a bad day. With all things said and done, it wasn’t the best day but it wasn’t the worst by far. This was probably one of the craziest days that I have had on the race. Everyone on Team Fanatic had such a great attitude about everything that happened. We all walked away from yesterday knowing that God was in control and has a great plan for us.
