Busy, busy, busy......

Boy have I been busy...

Since Brenda is off for her surgery, I have been filling in more and more. Brenda had her surgery on the 10th. She is doing better as she came home this past Wednesday. They took her voice box, vocal chords and her thyroid. They said that there were 2 lymph nodes that were affected. She is not to have any company for at least 2 weeks. Probably more as she has chemo.

The week of her surgery, I delivered mail on rt. 2 Monday. This is an eight hour route. Tues.-Sat. I ran the 2 hour route. On Thursday, the 12th. after running the 2 hour route, I went to Florien High School and subbed for a History teacher. Friday, I went to the Post Office at 6:30 am to sort the mail to all the routes. Then I cased the mail for the Post Office boxes. After doing this, I went to route 4, the 2 hour route, and cased it. As I was pulling the mail to deliver, the district supervisor sent an e-mail looking for help. My OIC asked me if I would be willing to go to Alexandria to help them. I said I would. So after running route 4, I went to Alexandria. This is a little over an hours drive for me. After I got there, they told me I would run a route. This was so different than what I was used to. I am use to just putting the mail in the boxes from my jeep. This route I had to dismount and carry the mail to apartments and businesses. This didn't bother me too much. What bothered me the most, was that the supervisor would not give me a route description. He said that city carriers to not have route descriptions. (This was a bald faced LIE) He gave me a map but there were so many subdivisions NOT on the map. I had to call them several times to find these places. One of the regular city carriers found me and took the mail that was for the walking section and left me with the curb service section. I got to Alexandria a little after 11am. I probably started delivery around 11:45 or so. I had 3 very long trays of letters and 2 long trays of magazines plus several parcels. (boxes) Timothy found me at 5:45 and I had just started on the second tray of letters. He called the office and said he was going to help me. It was starting to get dark by this time. I was also in a very, very bad neighborhood, according to the businesses I had been to before. By 7:15 or so I was really getting tired. I still had a tray to go. Timothy found me again and took the rest of the mail. He said this was sooooo wrong for that supervisor to give this particular route to me, as I had never been on this route before. He said this was the dirtiest, nastiest and meanest route in Alexanderia. I am from Robeline. What a difference. If he had given me one of the rural routes with a route description, I would not have gotten so flustered with them. I got back to Robeline after 9 that night. BOY, was that a long day!!! I had to get up the next morning and run the short route again. I have been working 6 days delivering mail. This week, I did route 3 for for 3 days. Next week? we'll see.

Well, Mom called me yesterday. She is going to have eye surgery on March 2. Her eye is bleeding and the Dr. couldn't find the source. Daddy isn't doing any better. He is about the same. Please pray for them as if she goes blind and he stays this sick, I don't know what will happen. Allen is now living on the place, so he can help when it is needed.

We are starting revival tomorrow at our church. Rev. Robert Beckham is the evangelist. Bob and Becky Gray are the song evangelists. We are looking forward to a GREAT revival. The Lord has been working in our church. I'm looking forward to seeing what He has in store.

Oh, I forgot to tell you about our Quiz team. We had the invitational for Children's Bible Quiz on Feb. 7. We had a great time. Out of the 8, I had 5 show up to quiz. We had one that missed only one question out of 40. The rest did very well. I am proud of our children for hiding God's word in their hearts. This is the main purpose for this curriculum.

My jeep is still NOT fixed. grrrrrrr. The Lord knows about this too. So, I will let Him help me take care of it. The place in Natchitoches is still closed. The next place is over an hours drive. If I can't get an auto to drive while they fix mine, well I HAVE to have one to deliver the mail!. So I guess I am stuck with this lemon.

Well, I guess I will let you go for now. Hope you have a great day in the Lord's presence.

Love to all.