This morning our intrepid packing party team leader, Elizabeth Randolph, bravely hosted 18 students in 5th through 8th grade from a Christian School in Clarion for a morning packing session. They packed 1,267 boxes to kick off the day and did a wonderful job.
There were the usual glitches of the day. The truck was placed in the wrong spot in the night, but, by God's grace, the driver cheerfully moved it when he came to drop the second truck.
I kind of freaked out when I found out that at the morning packing session they could not get 23 boxes in a carton and so packed 22 in each of them instead. My calculations showed we could possibly run out of both cartons and truck space with only 22 in a carton. I asked the prayer team to pray that we could get 23 in each carton.
Today, when I got to the church I started working on the cartonizing problem, and I found I could get 23 in a carton. Then my husband showed up and we had a little "discussion" about this. He was pretty adamant about putting only 22 in a box. Finally I walked away from the situation (not sure that counts as submission) and the result was that some cartonizers put 23 in a box but most only put 22 in a box.
I can't wait to see how that works out tomorrow.
Meanwhile, those energetic youth packed 5,650 boxes tonight for a day's grand total of 6,917 in the truck to start the day tomorrow.
My thoughts as I looked around the room--
Wow--this is moving way too fast. It doesn't look like we have enough stuff left to pack another 15,000 boxes.
Then I made the mistake of counting the cartons of soap we have left and deciding we'll be short 1,000 bars even though I know I ordered 22,000 bars.
Stay tuned for the rest of the story tomorrow.
Thanks for the update--I have been praying and keep my eye on this blog and your FB page for the event. Praying for you to have peace like never before. I'll be watching for the "rest of the story."
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