We are becoming my parents! HELP!!

I talked with Dad yesterday. Last week was Mom and Dad’s anniversary. They celebrated 39 years. Mom claims that is her age and that she has been married since she was 6 months old. For some reason I am not buying it.

Back to the phone conversation with Dad. He said that on their anniversary day, they went to Barnhill’s Buffet. Elegant anniversary dinner.

However on the next day, they did celebrate properly. He gave Mom the choice of her favorite restaurant, Olive Garden, or any place of her choosing. He said she chose some place else, but he could not remember where it was. You can tell it made a great impact on him.

He commented that they did not have any books with them. They actually talked with one another while they ate. “Just like a real date,” he said.

That whole conversation came crashing back to me as we were standing in the library this morning and I was trying to pick out which book I wanted to read when we went to lunch later in the day. Are my wife and I becoming my parents? I sure hope not. I don’t think the world could be ready for 2 sets of people like them.

Is it warm yet where you are?

On Monday a group from New Jersey arrived to work with a church that is pastored by a good friend of ours. I went out with them that evening and was telling them how much we have enjoyed the cooler weather the last several weeks and that it really has not gotten hot here with the exception of a couple of days. We even had a couple of days at the end of this last week where the high was only 86.

That was Monday. Tuesday it was 100 degrees and today we touched 102. Tomorrow is supposed to be 104.

So much for the cooler weather.

Missionary Talks 22: David and Crystal Houghton

In this interview I spoke with David and Crystal Houghton. They are missionaries in Tampico, Mexico. Like me, they too work with the Deaf.

As you will probably be able to tell in the interview, we were not “perky.” That is a word that left our vocabulary a few days before recording. It was a very long and tiring week.

I told you I would get it out today. Whew!

Missionary Talks problems

Boy am I having a time getting this next edition of Missionary Talks out! I have 2 recordings that I need to work on. I was hoping to get one of them done today, but it is just eating my lunch. I think I am going to skip that recording for now and move onto the next one. I know the information will be old news to me by the time I get that one out, but it will be fresh to everyone else. I really just need to get a show out there.

There are a couple of people in town this week that I may be able to rope into an interview. They have been to the Quechua people in Peru for a short term trip. They are not career missionaries, but they may be able to share a couple of stories. I think that would be great. I could share one of my Peruvian stories with you too. I spent 4.5 months there in 1991. I have quite a few stories I could share. Might be a good reason to pull out my journals from that trip.

So, I am going to give up on this one show for the time being and crank out the next interview that I have recorded. It will be a bit of a shorter show. Maybe you will like that. I will start on it in the morning when I am less frustrated.

My Thought Spot 04: Krispy Kreme Donuts

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