On the last of our five-day Tour of Texas for Thanksgiving Twenty Twelve, we drove east of Austin to visit with some friends on furlough. Emily was an IBEX student many years ago and she and Brant have served in Papua New Guinea for four years. As I write this (Sunday afternoon), they are getting on a plane to Indonesia with plans to move to a tribal village soon to begin translating the Bible. If you read this anytime this week, you might consider asking God to help them on the long journey with their three sons and with the challenges of luggage, flight arrangements, malaria, and other logistics. We know a number of the Lord’s servants, but these are a cut above.
Brant, Emily, and their boys
On the drive home from Austin, we stopped at the Texas Ranger Museum in Austin. Before there were baseball players, there were rugged lawmen in the Texas wilds. I didn’t know anything about them (and didn’t really care), but someone recommended the stop to us and it was on the route home. (I wanted to skip it that last afternoon, but Kelli didn’t.) We were all glad we visited and we learned some interesting things about the history of Texas.
The Texas Ranger Museum
I bet you never knew they had so many Colt Revolvers.
Statue.
We had a great trip! Thanks for saddling up with us.