Arkansas Day 2—Sunday

We got up bright and not so early for another hot, southern day, the second in our quest to secure the best place possible for our little family.  Today was a day of rest and prayer before the real work starts tomorrow.  We attended church at the local branch here, and enjoyed a nice two hour service with seven other people.  That made nine total.

Nine.

Nine.

With our children it would be twelve.  an even dozen.

So, as it was the first Sunday of the month, we took it in turn to share our testimonies of principles of the gospel, one person following another until it was our turn.  First me, then Liz.  I get the strange feeling that this is pretty standard, and we will have plenty of opportunities in the future to do the same thing again and again and again and again.  Wow.  The photo here is of the church building, which consists of a chapel, kitchen, library, restrooms, and a large room that can be divided in three for differentiated instruction.  We didn't do any of that today—just two hours sitting in the chapel all together.  It's a beautiful little little building, and I'm grateful it's there, otherwise I think they'd disband the branch.  We sang hymns to the accompaniment of CD (including the recorded voices on the CD) and had a grand time feeling that feeling that we could belong in a unit like this.

Now you now what we're looking at.  Tomorrow the house hunting begins, and we actually have a great lead in Marianna that came late tonight from some Teach for America people leaving this year.  We're hoping things will come together quickly so that we can get home to our boys, one of whom was bitten in the face today.  Apparently it wasn't that bad, but an adventure nonetheless.  Keep us in your prayers, and we'll keep the updates and photos coming!