Mission’s Conference, life on the farm, Aaron and Maggie, Brittany

Missions Conference is over and we are worn out. Last week happened in a dead run. After getting back from vacation on Tuesday and starting the conference services on Wednesday we did not let up even a little until this morning. The church pledged $148,700 plus for the year starting in September. I was a little hesitant to commit without knowing if we will be here for the entire year but God will supply regardless of our location. We are more and more drawn to the Bowie area for obvious reasons, but I am still at the mercy of my current assignment in Borger.


Grandma and Grandpa went over to Bowie to stay at the farm. They left early Sunday morning and got to the farm before 10 a.m. We got several calls through the day and they seemed to be doing okay. Grandma left with the conviction that she was staying long term; that may have been amended by early afternoon. I bought a generator so they would have access to electricity but I have not heard how that is working out. Hopefully Grandpa can get the water checked to day. Yesterday was dedicated to getting enough space hollowed out of the mess to place the beds they took over with them in the front room of the house.

We got word yesterday that Maggie and Aaron’s wedding pictures are up on Bob Hollis Photography and as I went to bed Victoria and Mama were ooing and aahing over them. I looked at only a couple but like most males, they did not mean as much to me as to our womenfolk. I know that Bob always does an outstanding job and from what I saw, his record is unblemished.

Tomorrow Victoria flies out to attend Heather’s wedding somewhere in North Carolina. She is as excited as she is apprehensive. It will be the first time she has flown alone in over ten years. I think she will do fine – especially leaving out of Amarillo. Having to spend so much money for the wedding has tempered her desire to relocate to the farm. She is taking the wait and see approach. In fact, it is making her a little nervous to have Grandma constantly referring to the house on the farm as “Victoria’s house.”

Maggie and Aaron seem to be doing well especially since his current rotation is 24 hours on and 48 hours off. She still worries about what she will do when he deploys for an extended time but the two of them are bright kids, between them they will figure it out. For the moment they are sleeping on an air bed and have no furniture to speak of. I do not know what they are eating off of, but all those things will come to them in time – most when Aaron’s things are relocated. Over the years ahead they will load up their wagon to overflowing multiple times. They will have the chance to supply Goodwill with the things they are now buying there. It’s a wonderfully crazy cycle.

At the moment Brittany seems, as is Becky, less than pleased with the choice she has made to relocate to Colorado Springs. Becky may be discharged for medical reasons and end up with nothing for her efforts other that an extended time away from home at the governments expense. Brittany, on the other hand, has a nice apartment, a good job and proximity to her fiancé; all the things she wanted in the move, just not what she expected. In both cases, I think there were a lack of attention to prayer and definitely a lack of Godly council. It is a sad fact of the Christian walk that God rarely blesses the things we figure out all on our own.

To write Becky:

PRV Fulton, Rebekah D

DCO 1-48 Inf. Regt. 2nd Plt

495 Iowa Ave.

Fort Leonard Wood, MO 65473

(Abbreviations are hers)