Day 3 at Dungannon 2014

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Interviewer:  Clifton
Featuring:  Hannah Watts
Topics:  lesson, reflection, compline, early morning, late nights, recruiting, free time

This blog includes an excerpt from the reflection lesson on blessings; one of the four parts of the holy sacrament of The Great Thanksgiving.   Laura led an uplifting and inspirational session.  She asked the group to name one talent, gift of personality, or ability that they see in each one of their group members.  This attribute is the person’s blessing to the rest of the world.

Each missioner stood and the audience recommended the best word that described the person’s blessings.  The following are of the blessings our 54 missioners bestow upon the rest of the world:

teacher, guiding, nurturer, leader, approachable, intelligent, energetic, experienced, huggable, sweet, creative, accepting, knowledgable, kind, insightful, kind, happiness, personable, exuberant, talkative, calming, humorous, dedicated, dependable, open-minded, carefree, artistic, relaxed, peaceful, outgoing, outspoken, stoic, encouraging, warm, empathetic, committed, wise, healing, worldly, respectful, compassionate, understanding, patient, crafty, strong, humble, caring, mentoring, friendly, eager willing, welcoming, flexible, charismatic and inspirational.

(Ismeal, Evan, Maude, Haley, Nathan, Meg, Emily, Paul, Beau, Katrina, Elliot and Jack)

Today, we also recognized the 12 new missioners attending Dungannon for the first time.  Fun fact:  the total Dugannon experience represented by all the missioners on this trip is 134 years.  Our new participates will add their experience to that rich pool of talent.

We worked on six homes today.  The work ranged from painting and small repairs, building porches, replacing a bathroom floor, demolishing a small building, building a roof on an existing porch and replacing the entire lower decking and framing on a 30’ porch.  Oh, and that was just the first day.  We anticipate one of those crews will complete their first job on Tuesday and will be assigned to a new job site Wednesday morning.

In the evening, we celebrated Nathan’s birthday 15th with an icing covered pan of brownies.  He was surprised and only took 8 attempts to blow out the candles.

During a short ceremony we recognized 3 St Annes missioners on their 5th trip to Dungannon.  They were each given a tool bucket for their participation.