Super Happy About Supper
Categories: Léo’s Insights 2024-2025
We have been blessed with good travel experiences. In the thirty years we have been facilitating, we have had very few travel issues other than the occasional speeding ticket. We have been marooned in snowdrifts only three times, stuck in mud twice, twice we have been partly in a ditch with our truck and camper, and very rarely we’ve had some kind of vehicle breakdown. I believe we have only had to cancel a very few days of visits as a consequence of road, weather or other issues, and thankfully we have never had to do so due to either my wife or me being sick.
Whenever some mishap or breakdown occurred, families quickly volunteered to help in whatever way they could. We remain eternally grateful for all those who have helped this ministry in even the smallest way. Although we have many stories to share about inclement weather, bad roads, bad driving and breakdowns, this one remains the funniest.
We had to get our truck brakes fixed, as our mechanic friend would not allow us to go down the very long and steep hill at Dunvegan without brakes. While the work was being done on our truck, a family gave us their van so we could continue working. We were only late for our last visit, which included dinner. We asked the family to eat without us, as we did not want to postpone dinner when several children were involved.
When we arrived a little over an hour late, the oldest child, a very big-for-his-age teenager, was ecstatic to see us. The meal was typical five star Mennonite cooking and we all had a good time. The level of excitement in the oldest seemed to rise as the dinner progressed and peaked when dessert was served. When I simply could not finish the generous portion I’d been given, I offered the rest to the boy who immediately took me up on my offer, making me his instant friend. Then everything became clear.
Mom had put the entire family on a no-dessert diet in an attempt to have everyone shed a few pounds. However, she had made an exception when preparing for our visit. It turned out the excitement displayed by the oldest when we arrived was not really because he was excited to see us, but because he was hungry and really looking forward to a dessert that would not have been offered had it not been for our visit. He was only focusing on his growth-spurt home education subjects of eating and sleeping!
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