Leaving on a Jet Plane

Wow, it's here!!!  I leave tomorrow to go to NYC for a one night orientation....then on to Turkey!

The last week has been asbolutely whirlwind, and it in a good way.  I arrived to Shreveport, my home town, on Oct 1.  On Oct 2 there was a bachelorette party for my friend Angie, and yesterday was her wedding to the fabulous Bill.  Joe came into town, met the fam, and was my dashing date to the wedding.  In between was a lot of family and friends time, some dissertation time, and some rest time.  A huge, huge thanks to my parents, Grandma, and Brandy for all the running around and feeding me they did.

Mission Project: A huge, huge help in this week was the donation offered by Lakeview UMC.  I played my new lap harp in the church service, and talked a little about the upcoming trip to Turkey, and the church offering was $233 to help out with the mission project of the trip--buying vitamins.  Today I bought a whole mess of vitamins to take to Turkey, which will be donated to (I think) the migrant worker community, especially the babies and toddlers of migrant workers.  Isn't it amazing--a church in Louisiana is helping out with the project?  Let the ecumenism begin!  With that, I am off, and hopefully pictures and updates soon to follow.