whew!

What a weekend this has been...in a totally great way!

Friday Dan packed up his car and I followed him out to the camp. We dropped his car off and headed to Livingston, TX. We met with the youth pastor, Jason, and his wife Lindsey. We went to eat a great Mexican food restauant and ended up staying there for, like, three hours. We shut the place down. Well, there were still people eating when we left, but we didn't realize that it was past their closing time. Oops!

Saturday the youth group had an outreach planned, so we went with them to that. They did a great job. One little boy gave his life to Jesus. Totally worth it. We had lunch, went back to the hotel for a little while, then met back up with Jason, Lindsey, and the jr. high pastor. We got to talking and realized that we knew a lot of the same people. In fact, we actually worked at one of the same churches a couple of years apart from each other.

Today was really cool. We knew the service was going to be pretty tight because there was a lot going on, but it turned out good. The youth did a drama, and as soon as it was done, they brought the lights down for our promotional video. When the lights came back up, Dan spoke for a few minutes, hitting the highlights of Ready Now and encouraging the adults and youth from scripture. He did a really good job saying what needed to be said in a timely manner because of the time crunch we were on. Nancy Harmon (Southern Gospel) was in the service as well a guest speaker, so there was no time for dilly-dallying.

We headed back after lunch and got to the camp around 6:45. It starts tomorrow, so we got Dan's stuff unloaded into his room, and I came back home. I'm so glad that he is only 30-45 minutes away now, as opposed to 5 hours. I'll at least get to see him on the weekends, and probably on my days off as well.

The only thing that stinks, though, is that we've gotten into the habit of reading a book on long trips. We started a John Grisham book and were looking forward to finishing it on the way back. When we got to the camp, we had 35 pages left and no more time to read. Grrrr.

One thing is for sure...I will sleep good tonight!