So…

To all my faithful readers: Sorry for the long hiatus…life sometimes just gets in the way, you know?

So I thought I’d just give you a summary of the past month…here we go:

First, my little sister, Jena, is home and doing great! In fact, she is starting her first year in full-time Elevate (now called Healing Place School of Ministry)! She is amazing and will impact thousands of lives with her testimony…mark my words! Here is the latest picture she has drawn:

Second, I recently went on a mission trip to Danville, California, where we have an HPC video campus. The people at the HPC Danville campus are incredibly hospitable and let all of us crazy Baton Rougeans stay in their homes…they were brave! We did some water giveaways, gum giveaways, picked up trash, cleaned, just served the community. By the time we left, the city of Danville were calling us the “red shirt crew.” That works! We got to go to San Francisco and hang out on our free day…it is incredibly cold there! We were dressed like winter in the middle of summer…very weird. But so beautiful. We went to a Giants game (their stadium is on the Bay – gorgeous!) and toured Alcatraz! We had a blast. Oh…one not-so-good thing…I dropped my Ipod Touch on the ground in San Francisco and the screen cracked. I was completely bummed…so what did I do? I went and bought two purses at a shop there. I felt much better…of course! What I miss about Danville, California – no bugs, no humidity, no rain, no litter, no crime and most of all…they can sleep with their windows open at night and don’t have to run their A/C…wow! We here in Baton Rouge can’t do that…we would sweat to death at night or someone would crawl through our window and rob us! I mean, we get robbed with our windows and doors locked, so I can’t imagine how crime would go up here if we slept with our windows open! It must be nice to live in a city where you don’t have to worry about that!

Last, Emily is coming home on Aug. 31st!! Very cool! It will be nice to see her face again…it’s been too long!

That’s it for now. Later!