Day 54– Aug 22, 2005, Monday: New Speaker, Don Gilman

My mom took this picture (she actually took it on Saturday, but I figured it was a good way to start the week) She is quite the Flortographer (I made up that word, another good way to start a week) Below this is Jessika wearing a few of them. She's so cute.

Today started with some worship. (It’s Monday, that’s what we do here on Monday mornings). It was nice to be back and worship with a big group again.

We had the morning off to catch up since we got back from outreach yesterday. We went to Walmart and Jamba Juice. Since we still have the borrowed car for two more days we figured we’d use it. After lunch we had an hour and a half of sharing stories that happened while on outreach. It was fun to hear what some teams did. The Sudan team camped all week in this hippy area in the south. Lots of teams did projects like ours. Lots of teams worked with youth groups like ours. Lots of people had a tough time, but learned to cope, which is good, I think that is a lot of what this mini outreach is for. It was fun to hear from everyone.

Guess what I got to do next! I was not in the mood to mow. I so wanted to take a nap. The funny thing is that we actually mowed for only an hour. I was excited to run up to the room and nap, but then realized that I locked myself out and ruth and the kids were sleeping inside. Oh well, I went and shot some basketball for a half hour instead.

We had a little taste of Don Gilman tonite for lecture. We are in for a treat this week. He is a joy to listen to. He told us a little about how he and his sons went to the tsunami zone immediately after it happened. They help load the dead into cargo bins and I won’t give any more detail than that. He was holding back a lot of detail and it was quite gory. He seems like a guy with a lot of wisdom and life experience, so this week will be good.