Reflections on Family Visit

This weekend we drove down to Dayton to visit with the family. We spent most of Saturday grilling out with my sister, her husband, their baby boy, and my mom. The picture is my sister and her son Gavin. She doesn't look too happy because Gavin has an iron grip on her hair. Anyway, that evening my dad and I rummaged through stacks of old documents and photos left by my grandmother. We found some pretty crazy stuff like personal letters from the 1880s, autographs of Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller that belonged to my grandfather, an old draft notice from the Civil War. It was wild.

Before we headed back yesterday, we went to a going-away party for a guy we met at candidate orientation last year. He just finished his support raising, and he's getting ready to move over to Finland to begin working in a church plant there. We were also able to see our supervisor from GEM as well as another couple from orientation. So, now we're back in Dellroy, and we're trying to get refocused on support raising.