Wow, I just looked and it has been about two months since I
have posted. I have thought about
putting up a post many times but I want to write a good one and I just haven’t
been able to find the time with the way that my summer has been going. So I decided just now that I will sit down
and pound out a quick post to have something new up here. I am still hoping to find time to finish
writing about my wonderful experience with CRS in Burkina Faso this past
February, but that has not happened yet.
It will and I will make sure to make those posts good. Please continue to pray for the people of
Burkina Faso as they are indeed enduring a drought and food crisis as
predicted. If you hear about the food
crisis in the Sahel that is a region of which Burkina Faso is just a part.
So, since my last post I had a couple of weeks that were
supposedly down time, catching up on a lot of little things is more accurately
what I did. I then had my interview with
St. Paul seminary. It was a much simpler
process there than when I went to interview at Mundelein. At Mundelein there had been 3 separate interviews
with 2 people each. The interview in St.
Paul was one interview with 3 people and took about an hour. Sitting in was the vice rector, a member of
the academic faculty, and a member of the spiritual faculty. The interview went well, and before I left I
was told that they were going to recommend me for acceptance. I received my acceptance letter a few weeks
later.
After my interview I went up to northern Minnesota to visit
relatives and relax a bit. It was a
great trip which I was able to end by going over to Superior Wisconsin to see a
friend ordained as a priest. After
returning from that trip I spent a bit more time getting little things that I
had been delaying done and then we had to get going with staff week at the Boy
Scout camp. It was a great staff week,
we had about half the staff as new staff members and the rest were returning
from the past. Because this is my second
year here I had a better clue what is going on and was able to have more fun
with it.
Scouts started coming right after the staff week. It has been an interesting year for the
homesick aspect that I deal with. The
first week was my busiest week and then the second week was my least busy week
for dealing with homesickness. I think
it was because the first week had bad weather at the beginning of the week that
a lot of the guys started out not liking it here.
Since then my weeks have been about normal. We had the week of the Independence Day
off. I started the week by going to the
wedding for one of my best friends. It
was a very special occasion. I was so
happy for her. It was on my birthday and
I couldn’t think of a better way to spend my birthday than to see a dear friend
get married. After that I drove to
Stevens Point where I spent the week off.
I had a few people ask if turning thirty was hard on me, it wasn’t, just
another year.
The week in Stevens Point was terribly hot, so I didn’t do
as much outdoors as I had wanted to, but I found plenty to keep me busy. I ended the week by spending a bit of time
with the priest that Baptized me. He is
assigned to our Diocesan mission parish in Bolivia, but was home for a while
and subbed in at Newman. I was able to
talk to him some and go to dinner with him, so that was nice.
I am now back at camp and have a couple of weeks left. We are done at the end of July and then in
early August I will go to Indiana for a wedding of another of my best friends
(I have a lot of really close friends that I just consider them all best
friends) I am the best man in this
wedding, so that is pretty exciting. I
will then have a bit of down time in August before going up to St. Paul
Seminary on August 30th.
Well, that is a brief catch up, sorry it has been so long,
and I will try to write again sooner.
Peace,
Adam
