Put a lot of miles on the ol’ Chrysler today!

J and I went to Willow Branch in Clarkston to pick up Bennett Ekandem. We had fun chatting with him on the way to the North American Mission Board. We had a meeting with Mike Riggins, our supervisor at the Board.

We had a great chat talking about our mission work and a situation that we’re dealing with. It’s not always easy to keep the whole team moving together, but we certainly do our best to do that!

J and I dropped off Bennett then came back home for a couple of hours.

Jesse has been interested in racquetball lately. I’ve been teaching him a few things about the sport. We bang the ball around in our garage and generally have a good time. Never too much Jesse!

Then off to the church to check the mail and then to Azalea to help the kids with their homework.

The Bengali ladies are studying English now! I was so proud of my wife getting them into school yesterday!

I saw Jimmy this afternoon at the mission. He won 3rd place at the State track meet. WOW! I’m so proud of him!

I spent over an hour talking with a young man who’s like a son to me. Tabias is a cook and I’ve been mentoring him on how to get a better job. With a little coaching, I think he can do really well.

Almost lost my mind working with Rahat trying to teach him some spelling words.

Who would know how hard it would be to learn “nectar” and “phase?” He did pretty well on most of the words.

You have no idea how lucky you are to be a native English speaker. Learning to spell English is a nightmare for foreigners. Rules of spelling? Yeah, right!

Watched my recordings of the Mentalist and Castle with Kathy this evening. Last weekend in NYC I spent time with probably the most successful mentalist in the USA. Super nice guy. My friends from England are great friends of his. Cool group to hang around with. They’re always showing me some trick that blows my mind!

I saw this sticker when I was at lunch.

I didn’t obey the sign. Oops. Only a pickle. Who could resist?

Spent most of the morning and early afternoon working on my financial report. Always takes several hours to write checks, figure out mileage, reimbursements, support for partners . . . then enter all the information into an Excel spreadsheet.

AWESOME to get back to the mission today!

Ashley came to help too! Super groovy!

Kids didn’t have too much homework, but we always seem to stay really busy.

Jesse is always super helpful. He was taking care of the outside kids.

Came home in the drizzling rain.

Back to admin work.

I’m glad I’m truly a mobile office guy. I pretty much keep up with all my email and phone calls even when I’m in the jungles of Costa Rica or the jungles of Wall Street!

Makes it a LOT easier to catch up since I don’t really get behind.