Today, June 13th, 2011, was the first day of work for the mission trip here in Washington D.C. First we stayed in Virginia to sleep over the night, courtesy of Pastor John Leggett. The hills are very nice in the morning in Virginia! On Monday we headed to Washingon D.C. We are currently staying at the William Penn Quaker House. For our first days of work we helped tend to a garden that needed some care. We did a lot of garden work in a short amount of time. We planted tomatoes and other plants as well as pulled weeds out of the flower beds. We were in a so called "rough part of town". A police officer even reminded us, that we were in a rough part of town, and even seemed a little confused as to why we were in this part of town, which was to plant gardens of course. We then took the subway back to the William Penn House, not the "Pen House". I found our venture through this part of town to be quite interesting and almost everbody was friendly. Many of which even offered one of our trip participants a bottle of water, when they seemed to have needed one. I got most out of today that even if you are in the roughest neighborhoods, there are still good people who live there. I also learned that God will be with you, no matter what the circumstances.
JOE
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