Happy Mother's Day

Just wanted to wish my incredible mom a Happy Mother's Day. You are awesome, incredible and the epitome of gracious. I regret not being there with you to celebrate this day, but if I could, you know I would be there by your side. This is your day!! I love you more than words can express and you mean so much to me! I promise to make it up when I get home. And to those who bragged and tried to rub it in to me about getting to hug my mom today, just remember it never will replace the hug of my brother and I. However, good try though! LOVE YOU MOM and I will see you soon!!

MMM Food

Steamboat Bills

A litle crawfish

Love Blue Bell'

You cannot come to Lousianna without have yourself a little cajun food, I feel sorry for those who do not like it, you are missing out. Steamboat Bills was the place for lunch today. One pound of crawfish for $3.00, what could be better? I am thinking that I will have to revisit this place for dinner tonight. Also, one thing that I must have when coming to the South is some Blue Bell' ice cream. I am not normally a big sweets fan, but this ice cream has made a convert out of me. I need to get out of the South or I will never lose weight on this trip.

Sulphur, La

We left San Antonio this afternoon after having lunch at the Riverwalk. I toured the Alamo this morning and once again was reminded of how much history we have in our own country. Amazing! We have arrived in Sulphur, Lousianna, where we will spend the weekend. Looking forward to be in service with Bro. Rick Treece in the morning and Bro. Alan Upton in the evening. Until later...

San Antonio, Texas

Alamo history


Alamo with the flag


Alamo


Alamo at night


A view of our hotel


Riverwalk

We traveled to San Antonio, Texas today. This is my first time to this city. We arrived around 3:30 p.m. at the Emily Morgan Hotel, got to love priceline. We are located directly across the street from the Alamo and 2 blocks or so from the Riverwalk. It is hot and humid here. We haven't had time to tour the Alamo, but will do so in the morning before heading to Lake Charles, La tomorrow afternoon. Bro. George chose to stay inside tonight due to a little sickness, while I wandered down the Riverwalk. I had some Texas BBQ at The County Line. Ribs, brisket, and some sausage with some sweet tea! AWESOME! I would definitely eat there again! It has been a nice, chill night and much needed. Looking forward to spending the weekend in Lake Charles.

Ft. Stockton, Texas

A little country

Bro. George with country behind

Bro. George Preaching

Partial platform shot

Apostolic Tabernacle - Pastor Kevin Johnson

Yesterday was the longest day of driving in the world. We headed out of Rialto a little bit after 8:30 a.m. Our destination was El Paso, Texas, over 750 miles away from home. We arrived in Avondale, Az right around 12:45 p.m. and met up with Bro. Winkler for lunch. Flavors of Lousianna was incredible. You can't go wrong with a little gumbo and shrimp po'boy! We then got back on the road and continued on and on. It was smooth sailing with no traffic. I was loving the high speed limit through Arizona and New Mexico. Bro. George slept for a majority of the ride. Thankfully I had some assistance in staying awake. Finally, after 10 hrs or more of driving, we arrived into the ghetto of El Paso, Texas. Trust me, the idea I once had of sleeping in went out the window when we arrived. I could not wait for morning to come to continue the journey.

We left El Paso today and made our way to Ft. Stockton for church tonight. It seemed like a piece of cake considering it was only a 3.5 hr drive. We arrived at the hotel and got settled in. Bro. Johnson called and wanted to meet for lunch/dinner, but he had to wait until he figured out how he was going to kill a rattler on the ranch. We are for sure in Texas. We met up a hour later as he was successful in killing the 5 ft. 7 in. rattler. Ate some food and headed for church. It was some good ole' country church. Awesome facilities in the middle of West Texas. Bro. George taught about commitment and dedicating our lives to God. He challenged us to present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God. There was a sweet presence of God in the altar call. Bro. Johnson was neat person and has an incredible office with deer mounts, a huge longhorn, some buffalo and other...what could be better? Tomorrow we are heading to San Antonio to have some fun as we make our way to Lake Charles, La

Atwater

Sunday has come and gone! We had great church, LONG but great. It was my first time being in service at Landmark Tabernacle with Bro. Hyler. It was a treat. They were incredible hosts from the room, the basket, and everything else. It was by far first class. Landmark Tabernacle is an awesome, powerful, and prayerful church. It was very evident from beginning this morning that this was a seasoned church. Bro. George preached on the 5 kinds of faith, however for the sake of time, he was only able to get through 2 kinds of faith. He said it took five days to preach this same message in India, thank God for the U.S.A. Awesome altar service followed the message. Sunday night was another tremendous service as Bro. George preached very passionately to us. We will be heading out in the morning for Rialto to unpack and repack for Tuesday's journey to Texas....

Update

We have arrived in Atwater....come 329 miles, I am whooped and just to think this trip has only really started. We met up with Bro. Hyler for dinner and now we are back at the room anticipating a great day of services tomorrow. We will be back home Monday night and hopefully I will get to see everybody one more time before heading to Ft. Stockton, Texas on Tuesday morning!