Four Generations and a Hammer
Wednesday, 21 July 2010 by Cindi
Just got back from an amazing week in West Virginia with 180 fellow companions (approx 120 young adults and 60 adults)-what a week!
I have gone now for 5 years and never cease to be blown away by the level of compassion and the amount of good work done over the course of the week. This year my team (always two adults and 5 high school kids) worked on a family’s home but what made it even more extraordinary than usual was that we got to meet four generations from the same family. We worked directly with a mother and her son every day putting up siding and underpinning, then visited her mom at her home and then we even got to meet her grandmother (the young boy’s great grandmother!).
The warmth and abundance of appreciation they all showed us will stay with me forever. The grandmother insisted we visit her at her home where we spent over an hour with her as she told us story after story and walked us around her home showing us all her flowers and vegetables with such great pride. I could have listened to her all day.
It was a heartwarming a trip as I could ever have imagined….my team performed miracles.