Workin!

We had a an uneventful trip down to our meeting last night. The "interesting" stuff happened after we got there! We got to the church just before 5:00pm, as planned. Then, as planned, we went to eat supper. We found a great barbeque place (Hooks BBQ, Andalusia, AL) and relaxed for a few minutes before we had to get to the church, which we had planned to be right after 6:00pm. After we ate, we got our clothes to change into and went to the bathrooms. Suddenly, while I was changing, I realized I had no suit pants to go with my suit coat! I calmly went to the women's restroom where Erika and Ashley were changing, knocked on the door with my blue jeans and white dress shirt, and calmly told her (for real, I was calm!) that I had no pants. So, we made a quick plan to figure something out!

Erika went out to make sure there weren't any khakis in the suitcase, and I brushed my teeth back in the restroom. While brushing, I decided since we were still early, we should try to find a Walmart and buy a pair of dress pants. So, I finished up and asked the waitress who told me that there was a Super Walmart just a mile and a half down the road! So, we drove there and I ran in to look for a good pair of pants.

I found a good pair for $10! They needed to be ironed, though, so we went to the hotel where the church had reserved a room for us (which just happened to be about a half mile from the Walmart, and we had passed it on the way there from the BBQ place). So, we got to the hotel, checked in, got the pants ironed, and left for church.

Arriving at about 6:40, nearly exhausted, we had a great time with some great people. Ashley of course stole everyone's hearts, as always.

Driving back today was again uneventful. We arrived home at about 4:00 and I got back to work getting re-organized. The only problem with our trip was that there was no cell-phone coverage where we were, and I missed several calls that I could't make up while driving. So, I regrouped and got everything back in order and finished up at about 9:00. I spent a couple hours with my family, and now here I am.

Tomorrow will be a busy day with follow-ups. Wisconsin is really proving to be very difficult. I booked one meeting, but it's for August of 2011. Hopefully, as I explained to the pastor, I'll be back in Mexico but I don't want to make the same mistake I made our first 6 months of deputation, and not book too far in advance thinking we would have our support and not need any more meetings.

The plan for tomorrow then is to make follow-up calls and to run some errands. Prayerfully, I'll be able to reap some of the hard work and hours I spent last week and this week for the Wisconsin trip. We'll see!

Slowin' Doooown...

So it's been a slow week. We had a great weekend, and came back home late on Sunday night so I could get a good start on Monday morning, calling to Wisconsin.

It's been sloooooow. I sent exactly 117 emails, and made over a hundred calls to independent baptist churches in Wisconsin. I haven't even gotten much of a positive response, either. I've been shooting for June, thinking it would be good to plan that far ahead because it takes about 2 months to completely book an area that far away, and by that time it will only be 6 months away.

I have gotten several replies from churches that tell me they can't have me because of my stand on the King James Bible. I wonder if that's just an excuse or if they really are inviting missionaries in. I've heard I'm planning too far ahead and even that I'm not planning far enough ahead. I've gotten the "don't call us, we'll call you" as well.

All in all, I'm pretty non-plussed. I'm going to keep trying for the rest of this week, and then try somewhere else if nothing comes out of it. I know it takes time, but it almost seems that the timing isn't right at all.

We haven't booked not a single meeting since last week. I'm not discouraged--just stating facts. I'll be busy again early tomorrow and then we're leaving out around lunch to be in our last meeting for the month down in Andalusia, AL.