The Conyers' Corner: our Saturday adventure

Yesterday we went to another prospective town... (is there a bad town anywhere to start a church and tell people about Christ?) Richmond, VT. Nathanael thought we were going to see CC, Grams and Papa J. At least he associated Richmond with them. Richmond is a town of 4000 people near Burlington with only 2 churches in the town, a Congregational Church and a Catholic Church. Please continue to pray for us.

The view of Camel's Hump from Richmond, VT

We also had an interesting trip to Burlington. I just have to share our experience at Ponderosa. Neither of us are big on buffet restaurants, but we had a gift card we wanted to use. While we were in line, we had a gentleman cut in front of us to order... funny. Our meal cost about $18, which will be important later... Brian headed off to the restroom. On the way back, he had to tell the manager about a problem in there (not created by Brian, of course). Shortly we saw the mop go by... we were almost finished with our food when it reappeared (It was a rather large mess!) The manager even came by to tell us that the problem was taken care of! While going to fix his first plate of food, Brian watched someone bring out chicken for the buffet. She was eating, too. We prayed over that plate again... Our waitress took some of our dirty plates away and also took Brian's cup to refill it with water at the same time. Same cup came back. We prayed over that cup, too! I went up to get a dessert and ended up beside a lady who was complaining about how wide the tongs were. I guess she thought the best idea was to use her coat to help close them a bit more. Although I didn't use the same tongs to choose my dessert, we prayed over that plate, too! Even Nathanael prayed for our health after that trip! We were so disappointed in our meal, that we gave the $5.37 balance on our gift card to someone in line while we were leaving.

We did some Christmas shopping (my first time inside a mall in quite some time), got a $5 balloon beetle from a Shriner clown (it was worth it), had a Pumpkin Spice latte from Starbucks, went into the most interesting outdoor shop where Nathanael talked to everyone working in the store (a girl named Holly and a guy he mistook for Daniel), then went to McDonald's for dinner (oh how we miss Wendy's and Chick 'fil A). Thankfully our McDonald's experience was not quite as hazardous as our lunch, but it did cost $17.50 (when did McDonald's get so expensive?) and there was a hair in my quarter pounder with cheese (thankfully I saw it before I ate it). We had a great time hanging out as a family and made many many memories!