Back in college, during Dan’s and mine sophomore year, Dan had to change rooms.  There was a room of 3 guys who had run off their APL (assistant prayer leader) and Dan was moved into the room to be the APL and to keep an eye on the boys.  These three boys were 6’ 10”, 6’ 9”, and 6’ something.  The two tallest were brothers.  And the 3 of them were trouble.  Dan didn’t spend much time in the room.  He hung out with me, because what he didn’t know, he couldn’t get into trouble for.  I remember when Dan moved in there, I told him not to make them made because they would squash him like a bug (Dan’s only 5’ 6”).

While Dan was in Seminary he went to the church recruitment at the college.  He had worked at an off campus church for the past 2 or so years and he went to hand in his card to work at the church again.  While he was there, he saw the 6’ 10” guy and was wondering why on earth he was there.  You see this guy was an art major in undergrad.  Dan went up and talked to his old roommate and found out that he was now a majoring in Bible and he was Seminary.  Dan invited him to his church, which he did.

We found out later that this guy got right with God and went to the deans to tell them what he had been up to and he thought he would be removed from the school.  But the school allowed him to stay and even made him a floor leader so he could help catch other wrong doers. 

Joel, for this was his name, had changed a lot from when Dan was his roommate until when Dan met him again looking to work at a church.  Joel, Dan, and I all worked at TMBC for a year together and the change in Joel was genuine. 

I’m not sure how they caught up again, but Joel and his wife (6’) are heading to South Africa to be missionaries and Dan invited them to come to the church to present their ministry.  Joel’s family stayed at our house for about 10 days.  When we moved down here we stayed in the prophet’s camber for about 7 weeks, and I knew it wasn’t fun with a little one.  So I told Dan that they could stay here as long as they new that I was still going to home school Anna, that we had a kitten and a dog.  It was nice to have them around.  Wyatt got to play with Anna and with our dog. 

While they were here, I mentioned to Dan that if he would help me watch their son so they could go on a date together.  So, Dan brought it up and they went out on a date while they were here.  They returned the favor, which was not necessary, and they watched Anna so we could go on a date.  They even gave us some money to go out with. (I was not comfortable with this as I’m used to giving missionaries money, not them giving me money.)

Dan kept Joel very busy while they were here, but we also took some time off.  We took them out to Moores Creek Battlefield and the Aquarium.  And Dan took them fishing out in the river, though they didn’t get a bite.  I’ll post some photos in later posts.