The slow crucible

Is there an immigration lawyer in the house?

This post is completely personal.  It will include my complete frustration, so be prepared.

I am, as I have said before trying to start my Masters degree at the University of Montana for the fall.  Last year I killed my van trying to get to the school, drove four hours to take the GRE, put in my application, was initially turned down for Teacher’s Assistant Position, then told a few days later that I had the position.  Then it takes a while to get my housing sorted.

So with all those trials, today it was all behind me, we were on our way.  Ha ha ha.

Optimism among pessimism

Well the wait is almost over, I will be moved to Missoula next week so by Friday I should be on track once again with regular posts.  This moving thing has made posting next to impossible until now.

This weekend I found myself many times locked in conversation with my brother-in-law.  He is a great person and seems to have similar interests which means I can speak to him on subjects that the rest of my wife’s family just have no interest in.

The other side to this is that he is not a member of the church.  So he does not view the church through the lens of understanding the culture.  So he constantly has questions.  Most interesting I find is his view on what is good and bad about the church.

This week he suggested that one thing he does not like is the view that the world is the worst it has ever been.  He sees this as wrong headed.  He sees the expansion in technology, civil rights and freedom as a good thing which has improved over the years rather than gotten worse.