Hi everyone,
CANBERRA TO LOS ANGELES AND THEN TO BOISE
It is around 9:30 in the morning in Los Angeles. We arrived here at 7:00 am having flown for more than twelve hours. It went pretty quickly for me because I was able to sleep for a few hours more than once. The rest of the time was spent going hard talking Oz and church with Ian Shelton.. Savlaca is with us as well. He is the son of pastor Vunni from Fiji. He is a terrific young guy and handles a lot of the work in Fiji with teams going to villages and seeing God bring about healing and reconciliation and revival. Vunni was supposed to come as well, but became ill just a day or so before. He had been in Toowoomba with the Toowoomba City Church at the time, so he is resting up back in Oz and the three of us are here.
It was still a pretty long day yesterday. I was up by about 4:30 am and to the airport by 5:30. Then it was Brisbane by 7:00 am and with a short train ride down to the International Terminal, I was there well before 8:00. Time to catch up on some letters and emails waiting for Ian and Sav to arrive. We took off from Brisbane by about 11:30 am. For those of you who know the Australia to US experience, you get this really strange short darkness going from west to east. I reckon it is about 2:00 am on Saturday morning in Canberra at the time I am writing this. That means the day lasted for nearly 22 hours if you don’t take the naps along the way.
I was going to phone Nola to let her know we had arrived safely but for her sake I stopped short when I realized that she would get a phone call just after midnight.
We have a four hour layover here before we get on another plane and fly to Boise, Idaho. I think it is about a two and a half hour flight. The program starts tonight with a meeting and then all day tomorrow and then preaching on Sunday. We are looking forward to all of that.
Even though LAX is always some kind of waiting ordeal. Immigration, customs, then a long walk to the United domestic terminal and another bunch of lines. We found a Starbucks and decided to park there until the time of board.
Talk with you soon. Photos are a bit on the lame side. We will try and fake some kind of drama to make them a bit more worthwhile watching.
We'll I'm still talking. That's strange for me isn't it. Brian can't stop talking. So what else is new?
What's new is that we have finally arrived in Boise, Idaho. It is the capital of the state of Idaho. It has about 200,000 people and the state has about 1 million people. They have a part time legslature made up of people who work like city councillors do. This is really high desert country. The plains are higher than Canberra, about 2,500ft. These are irrigated plains and water comes by way of melted snow and about 12 inches of rain per year.
Our first engagement is a dinner with some of the pastors in about an hour. They have put us up in this nice place for tonight so that we can rest up for the meetings tomorrow.
I am not stopping talking. Till tomorrow or whenever I get near the right connection.
Love to you from
BRIAN
CANBERRA TO LOS ANGELES AND THEN TO BOISE
It is around 9:30 in the morning in Los Angeles. We arrived here at 7:00 am having flown for more than twelve hours. It went pretty quickly for me because I was able to sleep for a few hours more than once. The rest of the time was spent going hard talking Oz and church with Ian Shelton.. Savlaca is with us as well. He is the son of pastor Vunni from Fiji. He is a terrific young guy and handles a lot of the work in Fiji with teams going to villages and seeing God bring about healing and reconciliation and revival. Vunni was supposed to come as well, but became ill just a day or so before. He had been in Toowoomba with the Toowoomba City Church at the time, so he is resting up back in Oz and the three of us are here.
It was still a pretty long day yesterday. I was up by about 4:30 am and to the airport by 5:30. Then it was Brisbane by 7:00 am and with a short train ride down to the International Terminal, I was there well before 8:00. Time to catch up on some letters and emails waiting for Ian and Sav to arrive. We took off from Brisbane by about 11:30 am. For those of you who know the Australia to US experience, you get this really strange short darkness going from west to east. I reckon it is about 2:00 am on Saturday morning in Canberra at the time I am writing this. That means the day lasted for nearly 22 hours if you don’t take the naps along the way.
I was going to phone Nola to let her know we had arrived safely but for her sake I stopped short when I realized that she would get a phone call just after midnight.
We have a four hour layover here before we get on another plane and fly to Boise, Idaho. I think it is about a two and a half hour flight. The program starts tonight with a meeting and then all day tomorrow and then preaching on Sunday. We are looking forward to all of that.
Even though LAX is always some kind of waiting ordeal. Immigration, customs, then a long walk to the United domestic terminal and another bunch of lines. We found a Starbucks and decided to park there until the time of board.
Talk with you soon. Photos are a bit on the lame side. We will try and fake some kind of drama to make them a bit more worthwhile watching.
We'll I'm still talking. That's strange for me isn't it. Brian can't stop talking. So what else is new?
What's new is that we have finally arrived in Boise, Idaho. It is the capital of the state of Idaho. It has about 200,000 people and the state has about 1 million people. They have a part time legslature made up of people who work like city councillors do. This is really high desert country. The plains are higher than Canberra, about 2,500ft. These are irrigated plains and water comes by way of melted snow and about 12 inches of rain per year.
Our first engagement is a dinner with some of the pastors in about an hour. They have put us up in this nice place for tonight so that we can rest up for the meetings tomorrow.
I am not stopping talking. Till tomorrow or whenever I get near the right connection.
Love to you from
BRIAN
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