Summer

It is definitely summer in West Texas now, we broke 100 degrees the other day and it is staying in the nineties for the rest of the week.
I finished at A&M on May 9th which was a lot of fun, that Sunday May 11th I spoke at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in College Station and got a great response. On Tuesday I drove home to Abilene, after a few debacles including a walking stint for gas, I made it in time to meet with the Heavenly Rest Vestry. Wednesday night 3AM found me in the Greyhound Station on my way to Lubbock. I arrived around 8AM and my girlfriend Oree Walkup picked me up at the bus station at which time I went pack to the Walkup homestead and slept for a few hours. That afternoon I got to visit with our bishop for about an hour about my mission and what life had in store for both of us.
Oree and I drove down to Abilene on Friday after a good visit with her family. On Saturday she headed to North Carolina with my sister for their inaugural season at the Nantahala Outdoor Center. Oree is going to be a raft guide while Katie is working in the reservations office.
Since then I have been in Abilene talking with people about my upcoming journey, avoiding packing, and riding my mountain bike at the Buck Creek Trails. I have raised almost half of my required $10,000 mission budget, I will be speaking at Heavenly Rest on Sunday, and I would like to go visit some more of the churches in our Diocese before I leave for the mission conference in New York.
Thank you for your interest, I will be updating more frequently in the coming weeks. I appreciate the support I have gotten and look forward to sharing with you as this journey unfolds.