Becky - she's a little bit country?

7-1-07

For anyone who wasn’t aware, the Mormon Church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) is not as established in the East as it is in the West, and this is especially true in the South. Today we found a tiny congregation in Waverly, TN that had about twenty people not including us (although we were assured that a few people were out of town on vacation). Still, it was the smallest congregation that I had attended, and I was in some fairly small branches during my mission in France and Switzerland. It was a really good meeting though, and I even had the opportunity to stand up and introduce our family and share a little about us and our trip. Then Alex even got up and shared some of her feelings about her baptism a few months ago.

As we left to go back to Loretta’s ranch, a pretty good thundershower had started, and it was supposed to rain on and off the whole day. We decided to leave the ranch a day earlier than we had planned because we knew that we’d be cooped up in the RV the whole evening anyway so we might as well be driving. We caught a small reprieve from the rain to take some pictures, and then we left in the early afternoon. We had rain a lot of the way, but we made it through Atlanta where we spent the night at a Walmart east of the city. We’ve all gotten used to sleeping in the RV, and we had a good night’s sleep and are still a day ahead of schedule.

I’ve forgotten to mention that the whole time at Loretta’s ranch, Becky (who’s pretty good at imitations) couldn’t stop herself from speaking in a Southern accent. I think it suited her well. She’ll make a right fine Southern belle when I move the whole family to Alabama just so I can get in touch with my country roots. Anybody know how much a teacher makes in Alabama? How about a rodeo clown?