Water Anyone?

Well hello my fellow lower 48ers.  Oh crazy Alaskans.  Well today marks my first full day in this beautiful frontier we like to call Alaska.  I had my first Global Partnership Ministry meeting at 10:00 a.m. (2:00 p.m.)  It was pretty nice and easy, Scott made it incredibly organized with a list of the what to do's.  Plus i met a guy named Jared who i will be working with and rockin it out with while i am up here.

So today we were assigned many tasks for the week, one of them is getting a ton, literally almost a ton of water for supplies.  So off to Home Depot for the managers special on water.  We got almost a full pallet of water.  (48 packs of 24 water bottles)  After we got that loaded up we went to a church which is our home base.  Jared was showing me around when all of a sudden we ran into a room with water all over the floor.  There was a washer and drier in that room so i didn't think to much of it, just thought one of the houses on the washer came loose, not to big of a deal.  Turns out it was a leak in the next room.  We thought it was coming from outside because there was a problem with that last year, but as we were leaving i heard water still flowing and i wasn't comfortable with that answer.  So as we walked back in i looked up on the wall and noticed a pipe and water coming from it, so i got up on the counters, touched this little block of dry wall and it pretty much crumbled away.  It revealed a copper pipe with two wholes in it.  Needless to say, we immediately called Scott and he sent over Lew, oh Lew.  Great guy who i will get to know more and more.  Any who i found that i could turn off the water to that spacific pipe, and so i was able to stop the leak.  Well Lew came, and we showed him what we found and after that he helped open up the door to our storage room.

Well after all that ordeal we loaded up the waters and got one of our vans from another church.  When i arrived back home it was right before a little get together.  We had tons of great food and great company.  I was able to meet a man named Danny who is in charge of the Christian Pilot program and his family.  It was a blast just getting to hear stories and meet some new people.  I love that we are starting to become a family and i love that i am meeting new people and creating amazing relationships daily.  In fact, tomorrow i am going to be meeting our newest team member Lilly who is staying with Bud and Trula, (pretty sure that is how you spell their names). Bud and Trula are the people i mentioned yesterday, i think they will be a trip to get to know. :) 

Well i am pumped to see how God is going to use me this trip and grow me.  I know i desire him to grow me in becoming more sociable and outgoing, and i was able to see that by just talking with the Home Depot employee and just telling him of certain saran wrap and roadkill adventures. 

Well the day is coming to an end but there is still so much sun in sight. Peace out.