Meeting fellow Christian volunteers

We awoke to the alarm at 7 and prepared for our second day serving the Lord at BSF. We found the location much easier than yesterday. Evelyn had a book about Australia that Carrie had given her. There was a woman volunteering with us who was from Australia but had never heard of the author so Evelyn gave her the book to take with her. We spent the morning and afternoon working together weighing pages again. At noon we went for some brisket from Rudy’s Barbecue. It was delicious as usual. They also have a salad with the brisket, creamed corn, beans, and hard rolls. There was no real dessert today but strawberries were on the buffet. We ate with Chad, Susan Kaminski’s son in law, and 4 other members of the press room crew. There was a Chinese American from Chicago who had moved to San Antonio who was working for BSF. We talked about Chicago sports and other sports memories. After lunch I took Evelyn to the Rafikki headquarters about half a mile down the traffic less road. She wanted to buy a necklace and wanted to walk back. I returned and resumed weighing. After she returned, another local volunteer arrived to work beside us. She was a lab technician, working with nursing students at UTSA. She and Evelyn had a nice visit. She had spent some of the summer volunteering at Billy Graham’s Training Center in Asheville and knew some things about Maggie Valley. We left BSF at 3 when everyone takes a break and drove back to hook up and leave San Antonio for Shiner. We drove to Gonzales where we spent the night in the local Wal-Mart. We had peanut butter and jelly toast for dinner and played gin rummy for about an hour before retiring. The temperature prediction for tonight is in the low 30’s, so Evelyn needed to put the flannel sheets back on the bed. She really gets cold. That is one reason we left BSF before I had thought we would. I can’t quite understand why we didn’t go farther south since it will likely get just as cold here as in San Antonio. I guess she thinks I really want to tour the Shiner brewery.