This entry is mostly an excuse to include a couple more photos...

Read more Release & homecoming

As of when this email sent, I have exited the plane, and am in PDX.

Read more Email 100: The End

Not too much interesting to report this week. Several appts. fell through, requiring changes of plans and clothes.

Read more Email 99

This week continued the frustrating trend of most of the people that they're teaching not showing up to their appointments, and wasting the time of the missionaries and ward members. (In one case, they coordinated with two different families to provide car seats and a ride to church.)  Still, they kept trying and occupied their time doing whatever good they could.

Read more Email 98: Trunky papers

Tuesday, the Branch had a barbecue at the church building. In order for us to earn our food, we had to help clean the church building. Even with how small the buliding is, it took a while vacuuming, because it didn't have any large vacuums.

If you invite a Texan to a barbecue, and they show up and find only hotdogs and hamburgers, they will either laugh, or be offended. Texan barbecues have to have at the very least a brisket, or some chicken and some ribs. Here in Louisana, we had hotdogs and chicken. If there were any native Texans there, they would have been disappointed in the meat selection.

Read more Email 97