Demands, Mama’s working tan, lunch buddies, choosing a church

Because of insurance demands I had to go to Bowie to work on the mobile home Saturday. I called the insurance company after I had gotten a call from the finance company Friday afternoon. The finance company was waiting on the policy to be issued so they could finalize the loan. If it was not done by the end of this week we would loose our financing. The insurance company was waiting on pictures showing the steps complete with handrails.

While I had the insurance agent on the phone I asked if the underpinning, or skirting, also had to be complete before they would issue the policy. The answer was yes. So I drove over and spent the next day putting on handrails and underpinning. I took pictures late in the afternoon and we got the prints done at Wal-Mart that night. Mama will deliver them to the insurance company today and hopefully everything will get settled by the end of the week. We will wait and see.

While I worked on the mobile home Mama was brush hogging one of the pastures. She really likes playing farm lady and Victoria got a couple pictures of her. She, Mama, was not happy about the photo shoot and let Victoria know. She was working on her tan and had on a sleeveless shirt which she considers inappropriate for pictures but she did not make me erase them from the card.

Mama and I stopped for lunch in Bowie on our way out of town Sunday at our favorite fast food – Golden Chick. While we were waiting on our food a young couple came in with their three little ones and ordered. They had obviously been to church that morning. An employee asked the father a question and I overheard him answer that they were going to be missionaries to Nepal. So Mama engaged the wife in conversation.

We ended up relocating and eating lunch beside them while we all talked. Their almost two year old little girl really liked the gravy and was dipping everything in it – mostly food pieces but also her hands, the ribbon on her dress, etc. The mom and dad are studying at the language institute in Bowie and we got a lot of information about churches in the area. We are a little disappointed about some of the things going on in the church we have been attending and have wondered about other churches in the area. So the information was both timely and helpful.

He told us about a good church in Bowie as well as one in Decatur so the next time we are in town we will check out the one in Bowie. It confirmed what we had been told by a man filling in Sunday morning for the pastor at Bible Baptist Church. We need to find a good church in the area so we can settle Victoria in. We will also be in the area soon – within a couple years at the most – and Mama and I would like a place where we can serve the Lord also. We miss that when we are there.

Mama and I drove home after church on Sunday afternoon. We rushed to get to church in Amarillo and made it a little bit late for the ending of the conference. I hated to miss it but at least we got there for the close.