Hard Labor and Hay-on-Wye

Yesterday, Cer and I went to do some hard labor at the church. We were assigned the task of taking rusty nails out of timber. I think I pulled out 20 nails in 45 minutes. I'm supposing, that upon noticing our lack of progress, we were assigned to clean the pews. The church is beautiful and thoroughly enjoyed working alongside Cer. Spent the rest of the day with people from church and taking walks.

This morning, Norma and Lynda (two women in the church) took me to Hay-on-Wye. This is a beautiful town FULL of book shops. FULL. Although we didn't have much time, I got to spend time rummaging around old book shops and marveling at the age of some of the books. It is a shame I couldn't buy any since I have NO room left in my bags for loads of books. I wanted to buy the old old old books on missionaries and preachers I adore. Books from the 1800s on American history. And historic cookbooks and gardening books. But I restrained myself. There was one bookshop that was outside!

When I got home I walked to Tescos (grocery store) to buy food for Teens on Friday night. It took me forever because I knew where nothing was and all the food is different here. When I dropped it off at the church, Dave (intern here) told me I could stay for a group of kids coming in that were from Bernados (a charity for kids). We just hung out at the church building and played games for a few hours. Awesome that the church is opening their doors to charities such as this one.

Little homesick today. But God is good to put me exactly where I should be at the PERFECT time.