My sermon on Saturday night went well! Methodists are a friendly group to worship with. I preached it on the conversation of Jesus with the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4. It shouldn’t have been that hard to write, should it have? 
It ended up not being that hard to finish. I started it on Saturday morning and spent most of the day at the church working on it. In the afternoon, when I had only a little bit left to write, I got a strange phone call. “Adam, are you coming up to Iowa City any time in the next couple of days?” It was Bill S-D, the director at the Christian Conference Center. “Ummm, I wasn’t planning on it. Why?” “Oh, we have someone in your congregation who donated tile for the interns to use to floor their bathroom; we need a way to get it up here though.” I then thought about it, and realized I could alter my route and return to Keokuk via Newton on my way home tonight. Then came the news in another phone call that I had to get it in the next half-hour. The good news is that I now have it loaded in my car and ready to go!
Sunday was good as well. Because I’d spent most of Saturday working on my sermon, I still hadn’t thought of my offertory meditation, pastoral prayer, or prepared the media with Keynote, so I came in at 6:30 and got everything ready before the 8:00am service. The worships went great and my afternoon nap afterwards was quite nice. I capped off the afternoon and evening by visiting the Whitakers for three hours (and then another porch conversation with Rodger for 45 minutes) and reading a lot and then watching The Boondock Saints.
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