Teen Blog Kayla Squared

So this is Kayla squared talking! Meaning Kayla #1 and Kayla#2 or Kayla Kreiser and Kayla Strenck, or also very well know as best friends!! We came on this mission trip having many expectations of what it would be like. To be completely honest, everything is so much different than we expected. Some of the things we expected were that the New Orleans people wouldn’t be so nice and talkative, but the people here are so full of hope! When they see us around the community or at our work cites in our t-shirts they come up to us and want to know all about what we are doing. The people here are very caring and never fail to help us out when we are in need of information as visitors. On the very first day we started working on our job cite, immediately we all had to go to the bathroom because since we are on the north shore the drive had been an hour long. We saw that there were some porter potties down the street and we started walking toward them and all the sudden a guys pulls up and says hello and after having some small talk he told us not to go to the porter potties because they where too dirty for us to use. So we walked around for a while and everywhere we went there was either no bathroom or it was out of order. We kept walking until we came along some people and then we asked them if there was anywhere else close because we couldn’t walk too much further. They said maybe the church down the street so we walked there but all the doors were locked. As we checked the very last one, a lady was locking it. We explained and asked nicely if our group could use the bathroom and it all worked out! We felt like that was truly God’s fingerprint on that situation. Another one of our expectations was that when it came to working on the house we wouldn’t know how to do anything, but let us tell you we are true hard working girls. We have been painting, sheet rocking, we are defiantly experts with hammers, and we worked under the house in the cross-space pulling the HARDEST nails out ever. We where dripping sweat!! It was fun though! We have done so many jobs and have had fun with all of them and with our entire work group. This trip has truey touched both of our hearts and we have seen God at work every day!