Summer Travels

I'm now away on my second trip to Oklahoma for the summer, the first coming the week after Greek ended. Oklahoma City is not really any more relaxing than Austin, but it is a bit of a change at any rate. And, besides getting to visit family and friends, I also have had a chance to make some progress in moving toward Candidacy. So the trips have been productive as well.

This past weekend I got to see my good friend John Guthrie, who just departed from us at APTS this past June, be ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament. Hopefully, I'll be in that position in a couple more years!

This next week I head out further west to Wyoming and Colorado. I've never been to Wyoming before so, at the very least, I'll be able to add it to the list of states I've visited. I'll be high up in the mountains of Colorado, hopefully enjoying the scenery more than gasping for air. On the off chance I don't show up for the first day of class, please have search parties sent out to find me before I have to eat my fellow travellers. :-)

One thing I've really realy enjoyed during this break has been doing a lot of recreational reading. It's been years since I've been able to read like this, and it's nice to have the time to be able to do it. Once classes start I likely won;t have the time to read anything other than textbooks again, so I'm really savoring the time now.