11/23/11

Dear Family of Faith,
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! I have been back and forth today over to the Fellowship Hall where preparations are being made for 48 people to share the meal tomorrow. Sue and Dick Mattson, Sherri and Wayne Raymond, and Jill have been busy cooking up a storm. They have made homemade noodles, homemade sweetpotato casserole, homemade dressing, and will bake multiple homemade pies tomorrow. (Martha Stewart, eat your heart out!). They are even making homemade bouillon from the turkey carcasses. They probably would have come up with a homemade turkey, too, if that had been possible! I'll have to get my Pilgrim costume out and wear it! One man told me this week, "I'm so glad to be able to eat Thanksgiving Dinner with my family. The church is my family."
What are you thankful for in this season of Thanksgiving? I'm thankful that I'm such a popular guy! The reason I know this that I've been getting so many emails from adoring fans. When I checked out my spam box a couple of days ago, I found an email from Iri, one from Irka, one from Irena, two from Irinka, one from Irishka, and two from Irinochka! I didn't bother reading them all, but the first line always started with "I would like to get ot know you" or some variation of such. I don't know if the emails were sent from some Eastern European woman who was trying to beat my spam blocker or a local lady who didn't know how to spell her name!! At any rate, it's nice to be wanted and I hope all of you are appreciated by somebody.