Our second house

Well, we are on to our second house. It is larger than the first. This house belongs to a single mother who lost her husband 4 or 5 years ago. We have not met her yet. Her Father has been there almost every day. He brings us soda and snacks for lunch and provides us water to wash our hands at lunch and the end of the work day. A very nice man. He brought his wife with him Saturday and was planning to tell us his story of what he went through during the Tsunami but our interpreter decided not to go to work with us. So now that is supposed to take place on Monday.

We were thinking that this house would take us the rest of our stay to complete but because we are no longer repairing the siding and the work on the inside is going so smoothly we are now looking at this Tuesday as completion day for what we are suppose to do.

We have dried in the house by wrapping the hole in the exterior walls with tarps

Rebuilt part of the floor









that was destroyed by a tree that came through the house.










Insulated the floors and walls.

Installed new subfloor







and now hanging drywall but don't have picture of that.

In every Japanese house you will find what my work team calls a cubby hole where they put their gods. This is a picture of the hole.

We also had a chance to see a ceremony take place across the street from the job this week in which they had to try to appeased the gods before they could build on the land. They had a truck sitting in the way but you can get the idea.

This picture is after they left still with all the decoration up and a pile of dirt on the ground.

 So far it has been a good trip. I have been here 2 weeks now and we have accomplished much work. They leaders are hunting for another house for us to do that we will be able to finish before we leave. Our crew has been working great together - like we have worked together for years. This is an answer to my prayer. Thank you Lord!

Gary