Bridges Over Untroubled Waters

Horton Mill Bridge

This past week we discovered that Alabama is home to several covered bridges, some within an hour of Birmingham and at least three still passable by automobile. As we were driving home after finding an apartment in Huntsville for incoming missionaries we noticed a sign on the highway for the first of three bridges along the "Covered Bridge Trail".

 At 330 feet the Swann Bridge is the longest covered bridge in Alabama. It was built in 1933.

Swann Bridge

The second bridge we came to was the Old Easley Bridge which was built in 1930 and spans 95 feet. It looked like the best preserved of the three. 

Easley Bridge

The last bridge along the trail was the Horton Mill Bridge.  It was built in 1934 and stands 70 feet above the river bed. This is the highest covered bridge in Alabama and is about 220 feet long.   

Horton Mill Bridge

These bridges are a beautiful and interesting part of the history of the area.  In case any are wondering - we drove over all three bridges and lived to tell the tale. 

There are 23 missionaries scheduled to arrive next week and only 2 are returning home. We are still anxiously engaged in the work of finding suitable housing for the new arrivals.

Mission Miracles:

Awesome miracle. We were contacting some people who had been dropped in the past. One guy we called very nicely rejected us. And instead of just accepting the rejection and hanging up the phone I was prompted to invite him to go to the church's websites if he ever had questions. So I did, and I also told him about family history and familysearch.org. President I kid you not... he was ecstatic when I mentioned family history. He didn't even know we did that as part of our missionary work and he said hes been trying to get into it because he knows nothing about his dads side. This phone call went from almost ending after a short minute to a 20 minute conversation because I listened to the spirit and brought up family history. He's so excited about it! What a blessing! I absolutely love the mission vision. Every part if it.

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Another busy busy week!!! We found 6 new people to teach! 5 were found on Facebook. There is a new day dawning in missionary work and it is going to flood the whole earth!