Andreas and I finished putting on all the ridgecaps and screwing down any remaining sheets. We were putting about 16 screws on each ridgecap, but about half way through, we realized how short we were on screws, so we cut that number in half. I started looking around in the grass for extra screws and found about 20. It worked out that we got everything screwed in just right. We ran out of ridge caps, so we used a narrow piece of Metalplas instead for the last ridge. It actually looked better than the real ridge caps. It wasn’t like we could run down to Home Depot and pick up some more screws and ridgecaps, so we had to start making due with what we had.

Sandy and Larry built a brace/support on the roof for 3 solar panels. When it was almost done, one of the missionaries came out of the house and looked up to the roof and said, “I don’t think 4 panels will fit on that.” Sandy swore that the missionary told him 3 panels, and the missionary swore he told him 4 panels. It was a classic misunderstanding that was actually quite humorous to witness. For some reason, I get a real kick out of the way people look at each other (especially during a misunderstanding) and how their body language reveals their thoughts and mood. Sandy and Larry cracked a few jokes about it, then joyfully (and quite cleverly) made an extension to fit the 4 panels and all was well.

Before I went on the roof, Gerry and I were working on the shower pan, and he asked me if I had a girlfriend. I said yes, and then he started to share with me some advice about girls and relationships. He shared that God will not bless a person if he/she doesn’t obey Him. If He asks someone to do something (like break off a relationship), then he/she has to do it. God has someone for everyone and if we don’t let Him bring him/her into our lives then it’s our disobedience that is to blame. God takes stuff away from us and it might hurt but it is always because He has something better for our lives. We can’t always see where or why, but He is always faithful. It could also be to purge something from our lives that is standing in the way of our relationship with Him. Gerry also mentioned that as soon as God asks someone to move on from a relationship, that relationship is dead and it will never become pleasing to God. It won’t be “fixed” or ever turn into something fruitful. Gerry’s past experiences gave him wisdom that he has now passed on to me, and I now pass it on to whoever reads this.

We had burritos for dinner and they were really good. After dinner, Sandy made a confession to Gerry and me about the “B52 fan”. It was Sandy who had the loud fan on while sleeping in the room right next to Gerry and Jim the whole time. Sandy said that Gerry and Jim were getting ready to “string me up” and he couldn’t let them do that to me, so he finally came clean and admitted to them that it was his fan after all. Gerry apologized for chastising me for two days and nights about the fan that wasn’t mine, and I forgave him.