The team continued on they started on Sunday. Don continued bringing "ligh" to the generator building. The Family Cabin team prepped the building site with freshly sifted compaction soils screen by Chuck and delivered by me (Mark). It took about 6 dump truck loads to complete. Then Steve and Chris grading the site and getting the foundation railroad tires positioned. Foundation work is tedious. But without a solid foundation the building will not survive the harsh Alaskan environment.
After delivering the soil, Roger pulled me aside and taught me a new skill. He taught me how to drive the excavator - Chuck was jealous. Wow! What a cool rig!! After a few minutes of instructions, Roger told me I was qualified. Which means I was licensed to dig up rocks - what fun! But there was more, after lunch Roger called me aside again and taught me how to operate the bulldozer. I felt like a big kid playing with Tonka Trucks. And Roger being the great encouraging man of God that he is knighted me and said - "don't worry, you can break it". And off I went bulldozing away.
Now some of you are probably wondering what does runnig a front loader, excavator or bulldozer have to do with a mission trip. Well Roger has a vision to use a section of land near the landing strip to build a ball field. He will be able to minister to the kids on this field. We are also extending / straightening so that the pilots who will be bringing the "campers" and fellow missionaries will have a safer area to take off and land. So learned to use these "Tonka Trucks" is essential to the mission of the camp. And as I said - they are really cool rigs!
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