Sunday!

This Sunday was my first time preaching at St. Paul's. Overall, I think it went really well and I heard a lot of great feedback from the congregation. If you would like to read my sermon, feel free to check it out at Preaching Bytes.

After church I headed to pick up Elizabeth and then we headed to Haymarket, VA. Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church meets in the firehouse in Haymarket, VA. Today was a very special day for this congregation as they welcomed Pastor Mark as their new pastor. It was a great day to celebrate with Mark and some of the seminary community.

Then Elizabeth and I headed out for supper. We stopped at Anita's, which serves "New Mexico Style" Mexican food. It was very tasty and a wonderful time to catch up with a great friend.

I headed home only to be lead on a scenic route that I was certain would take me much longer than the roads I had taken on my way to VA. However, it was quicker and had much less traffic and I only took about three wrong turns. The GPS is on my good side at the end of this day!

I was pretty exhausted when I got home and as I was coming into the house I accidentally pressed the "panic" button on my home security system. I frantically called the number to report a false alarm. After identifying myself and providing them with my password they told me they would cancel the alarm. Thinking that this meant that it was all taken care of I put my pajamas on and called my mom to chat about the day. As I was doing that I saw bright flashing lights out my window. It was a DC police officer. So, I left the house to go talk to him. He asked for my drivers license to prove that I lived there. I brought him my ID and his response was, "You are from South Dakota! How do I know you live here?" I had no idea how to prove that I lived here. Then I remember that I had a paycheck from the church with my address. Hooray! I proved that I lived there and then another police officer arrived. Holy Buckets! They sat outside my house for another fifteen minutes or so, which made me a bit nervous. The moral of this story is that I feel safe and secure with my home security system. I can barely prove that I live in my house, so no one else should be able to!

Here's to an exciting and exhausting Sunday!