It's 11:40 according to the clock on my computer. (We have 12 clocks in this house, all proclaiming different times as much as 20 minutes ahead or behind their fellows--and two of them maintain the same time day in and day out. I've never figured out which are the liars and which are the truthbearers, except for the two that are dead of course. Anyway...) We just got home from our trip tonight and there is so much to share!!! I really don't know how much I feel up to writing tonight though. Some things came up and I've been on the phone for much of the past 2 hours since we arrived home and now I'm bushed. Haven't even unloaded the van! But I even got a comment from Jared on that last post, so I know that some of you are anxious to hear about our trip. ;-) So I'll give you the quickie version:
IT WAS GREAT! Tune in next time for the full length version. ;-) We had wonderful services with the folks in Albuquerque on Sunday. The morning service especially was just soooooooooooo good. I feel like God really helped James and he used such wisdom--and there was such power and anointing in the message he preached about "The House of God." One lady said to him after service, "I haven't felt the power of God like that in this building for 30 years!" Ha! The Spirit of God was so strong there and the people just ate it up. There are four ladies who seem ready and anxious to become members of The Church of God, so we plan on organizing the Church there and taking them in as soon as we get back from the Assembly, with hopes that there will be more to follow. Praise the Lord!!! Isn't that exciting?! There's more to tell, of course, but it will have to wait. And then we'll have to hope I can remember it. You know how I am. :-)
We figured since we were "this close" (5 hours away) we'd go ahead and drive up to Salida to see Chris and Shanda Clarkson. (It's an 11 hour drive to Salida from Andrews, so 5 hours seemed "close" to us!) We got to their house at about 6:00 Monday night and visited for a couple of hours, then went in to town to go to Pizza Hut for old times' sake. :-) When we lived in Salida we used to order Pizza Hut with them all the time--James still thinks of Chris every time he eats buffalo wings! So we visited in Pizza Hut for a couple more hours before calling it a night. It was sooooooooo great! I love them sooooooooo much and it was just so nice to be able to spend a little bit of unrushed time with them. And we figured this just might be the very last time we can ever eat Pizza Hut with them in Salida since they'll be moving to Arizona in the near future! I felt blessed and uplifted after our time with them and I'm so very glad we decided to make the trip up there. And the air! Oh, the mountain are was sooooooo wonderful!!! They've had lots of rain lately and I could smell the mountains the moment I opened the car door--oh, how I miss that! And I think the mountains are getting more and more gorgeous over the years. ;-) It was so great to be there again, even for just a few hours.
We had a long, but fun drive home today. I made James drive the trek from Raton to Clayton. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ho! Ho! Hee! Hee! Hee! Har! Har! Tee! Hee! Hee! If you've never driven that stretch you can't possibly imagine why it's so thrilling that James drove it today and not me. Raton to Clayton is an 87 mile stretch that takes at least 16 hours to drive, I'm sure. There is NOTHING on it the entire way, just a long, lonely road with absolutely nothing to look at. It's miserable. Usually. But for the past couple of years it has been under construction. This has multiplied the misery four-fold, at least. Now it's a long, lonely stretch of road that takes 47 hours to drive because the speed limit is only 45mph for the majority of the route. But the evil fiends who conceived this road of torture were thoughtful enough to break it up with differing speeds rather than making you stick to 45 the whole way. The other speeds? 35. And 25. For miles and miles and miles and miles... And, of course, nobody is working on the road. You'll drive the entire 87 miles and you might see two men in orange vests (if you're lucky--a bigfoot sighting on the same stretch is probably just as likely), but no matter--we must crawl along the entire 87 miles so as to ensure their safety. It's been like this for years now and somehow I always end up driving that stretch while James sleeps. Every time. Well, not today!!! I informed him that I was driving Colorado and he was driving Raton to Clayton! So I got to zip down my old familiar canyon (although the van doesn't exactly hug the road and accelerate the way that glorious Grand Prix of mine use to in the good old days!), then I handed it over to James and I slept the Raton to Clayton stretch this time. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ho! Hee! Har! Har! Har! Hee! Hee! Ha! Ha! Ha! You should have heard James when I woke up after a lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ong nap. He just went on and on about the terrors of the road and the injustice of the speed limits. I laughed, as I'm sure you've already gathered. Quite heartily. Until today I'm sure he thought I was just overreacting when I would rant and rave after driving it on the past several trips. It was extremly rewarding to know that he has now suffered the same agony that I've been through countless times. He still owes me though. At least 5 more times. :-)
Okay, that's pitiful. I was too tired to tell you any more about Albuquerque, but somehow hit a spurt of energy at the thought of James driving that rotten road this time, not me! Ha!
I'm going to call it a night. It looks to be a really busy couple of days, but I'll try real hard to blog again soon. Time will tell! We leave on our Horne Family/General Assembly/Smith Family trip next week and the very thought of it makes me break out in a cold sweat. There is soooooooo much to do!!! So I'm going to bed in hopes that I'll have the energy to start doing it in the morning. :-)
~Becki~
P.S.-- Hi, Shanna!!! Welcome!!! For those who don't know who she is, she's the best phone answer-er at Headquarters. ;-) Among other things, I'm sure! So glad you've found us. I'll be stopping by your blog in the near future, I'm sure!
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