Keokuk Internship: Work-IN

Whenever I pull all-nighters, they knock me flat on my back. This one was especially that way since I’d deprived myself of sleep during my event at Eureka. Last night we arrived at the new church at 7:00 and started working. We raked dead grass off of a section so that the mower could go over it without getting clogged with all of the dead stuff. After that, Cathie and I did a fun demonstration of proper wood-work clearning. Let’s just say we had a good time getting into our roles. We all then cleaned all of the trim and wood we could find. The sanctuary — SO MUCH wood. That’s ok, though; it looks gorgeous! We then worked as teams and carried all of the pew seat cushions into the sanctuary to make it easier for the company to install them on Thursday.

We finished all of that by 10pm and took a break. Afterwards, we went upstairs into the middle school room and cleaned all of the rafters, swept the floor, and also installed ceiling tiles in the snack area. It looks cool! Before going to watch a movie to get to sleep at night, we also swept out the adult sunday school classrooms so carpet can be installed later this week (hopefully). Our progress was great and I hope that the adults can see it and that it hopefully makes their jobs a little easier. I ended up getting 3.5 hours of sleep last night. When I woke up, I wasn’t that tired though! So I went back to the Seiberts and showered. Kathy then made me french toast for breakfast. How lucky can a guy get?!? It’s a great to start that definitely lifted me off of my back.