Dec 13th - Nice Day at YWAM

It was cloudy today, but the temperatures were great. The high was 66 and the low last night was 48. Tomorrow we are supposed to get some rain. At 7 AM the chance of rain increases to 50%. Even after the rain we have had since we have been here Tyler just instituted water restrictions for such things as lawn watering. Local reservoirs are 6-8' below normal levels. The YWAM base gets its water from wells.

Kathy painted doors again today, I again helped with staining the cedar entrances on the new building. Today it was decided that it was OK to use rollers to apply the stain. The rollers work great to get stain on the cedar but the cedar is so rough that you still need to go over it with a brush. (At least I think you need to, and that is what I did. Some others just slapped on the stain with a roller.) Today we had more people staining. We put on about 5 gallons. The two gallons we have left aren't going to be nearly enough to finish. We will probably need another 5 gallons.

This is an interesting place. At one point this afternoon there were 8 of us in the area where I was staining, not all of us were applying stain. Six of the people were from Canada, one was from Brazil and I was the only one from the United States.

For supper we had some type of Korean meal that was quite good, although a little sweet. There was rice, beef, vegetables and big lettuce leaves all in separate bowls. You took some of each. You put the rice, beef and vegetables on the lettuce leaf and then rolled it up to eat it. There also had some type of sweet red, hot sauce to go on the finished "taco." While eating supper we set with a guy from Alberta and a couple from Newfoundland. I was late getting to supper and the Canadians finished and left before I was done. A young man from Mongolia, who was also late getting to supper, sat with Kathy and I as he and I finished our meals. He speaks English well and was an interesting dinner companion.

Since it is supposed to rain tomorrow I don't know what we may do. I sure wouldn't mind it if they told us to go home if it is raining.

Good night to all and may God bless you and yours.