Charity: the Pure Love of Christ

This is Robbie writing. This last saturday my pops wanted my brothers and I to come help and pour some cement with him. We got their at the crack of dawn, 10 a.m., and began our work. I was tired but I was thinking to myself, this some great service Robbie, you are a great person, keep going. We finished the first slab pretty well, hardest part at that point was keeping my dad's pig, "spanky" out of the cement and stuff. We were going through the second part when Timmy, my younger brother, woke up and came out to help (it was around noon and he was complaining to us because nobody had woken him up to come and work...). We were struggling with the second slab making it even and level. Pops was finishing up the first slab so it was just Willie (older brother), Timmy, and myself, three fairly inexperienced rookies. I saw were weren't getting anywhere so I knelt in the cement in the middle so I could get so more leverage. My jeans had holes in them, so it kind of hurt when I was working in it. I was in it for an hour or two, untill we finished the slab. My knees were burning, so I told my dad and he said go wash off and bring us back some water. I did, but the cement was caked on and I was bleeding in the knees and calves. I put on some shorts and went back out but it hurt a ton to bend my knees. I thought nothing of it and it was just like a bad rug burn. Went and worked finishing up things for an hour or two, and then called it quits. I got in the shower, but it wasn't coming off, it hurt too much to scrub and the water wasn't doing much but making it sting. Then I watched some T.V., Kelli came over and we went to IKEA, which I could see myself being a fan of someday. My legs didn't hurt too much but when I sat still the would be like stinging like acid was on them. My parents were really worried, came back to Alpine and tried to soak the legs in the hot tub and scrub them, not much of a change. Then my Dad looked up on the internet how vinegar will neutralize the lime in the cement that was causing my skin to burn. So they sat me down, soaked a sponge in vinegar and put it all over my knee for a couple

of minutes. Worst pain I've ever felt in my life. It didn't do much but cause my blood and skin to change colors. So we went to the ER at eleven. They gave me some type of morphine and started picking and scrubbing at it for 2-3 hours. That hurt too. They bandaged me up and then on monday I went to the burn clinic. I'm gonna be ok, but it'll hurt for awhile they say. Well, that's it, just want to get this one on record. Just a little sacrifice I guess for my pops. Just mark this one on my charity record, thanks.