This week we did disaster relief in Black Mountain, NC from hurricane Helene. We stayed at an Adventures Relief base camp in large army like tents with bunk beds. We were so excited to have mattresses because we'd been sleeping in camping tents on the ground for 3 weeks. I’d never realized how big twin beds are! We even had a bathroom trailer with real toilets instead of porta potties!

There are about 40 people on my squad, and we're all in teams of 6-8. Most teams worked on repairing houses, but my team got to work mostly in a local soup kitchen! I enjoy cooking so I had a lot of fun except for when we chopped 75 pounds of onions and we were all sobbing our eyes out. We are back at our base camp in Gainesville, GA for a rest/debrief this week, before flying out to Colombia on October 4th!

God bless,

Shelby :)