You cannot save the world; it has already been saved.  What you can do is make one small part of it a little bit better. 

Courage  & Destiny

Today we dug out the side of the mountain to put more dirt on the driveway to make it even and drain properly.  We also put another layer of tires on the retaining wall. 

Team Highs:

Sitting in the house listening to our carpenters stories and his music

Cuddling with our adopted cats

Climbing deep into the brush and high on the mountain to clear it out

Using power tools 

Dreams

Finished the water drainage ditch from yesterday (Laura) and worked on the foundation, painting, Randy’s sister’s house.

Team Highs:

Giving Laura the Bible when we left, she cried, gave us all hugs and thanked us over and over.

Going to Randy’s house and looking at the giant coal they had in the backyard. 

Awareness

As most of the day was washed out by scattered t-storms we spent time with Darcy and her sons Lucas and Hayden.We got to hear their stories and finished some of the siding.

Team Highs:

Playing with the kids on the trampoline

Watching the kids mess with us

Watching Scooby do with the kids. 

Some highs from the day:

Waking up to go on a run

Completing the ditch

Brian and Tommy's new handshake

Awesome teamwork

The van ride home from the Dairy Queen (for the second time!)

We're behaving - because the Kentucky State Troopers are  keeping us in line!

Calling Home

Everyone having a million highs!

Quotes:

"Something bad is going to happen. I need to get something to protect myself, like silly string... or a trap...for bears" - Ryan H. on BT

"Putting mud on my face with Tori – My skin's never been smoother" – Craig D.

"Having that toothpaste on my face that really made me feel loved" – Brian B.

“Are you sure you don’t want to go inside you might get cold its raining outside" - Parker the Carpenter - "…and what?" - Kelly M. (We love her enthusiasm and dedication to working hard!)

Feel free to send us messages via AppalachiaOutreach@gmail.com 

From tonight's talk on "Love"

There are many different types of love- between parent and child, man and woman, friends. One of the hardest types of love is that given to stranger and people you do not like.

Not many people would come down to the poorest county in the country and volunteer to work on the houses of the residents. I think this is one of the hardest kinds of love because we don’t know who these people are, what kinds of people they are, or even if we could be friends with them, but yet we show them love in this simple way. 

News from 

The Harlan Daily Enterprise 

Coming Soon:

Online photo account with even more pictures from the workdays!

We might not see this until after the trip - we do not have internet onsite like last year.

Thank you all for your great emails to the Team!

Keep them coming.

WE LOVE YOU ALL!