Conversation Partner: tired of meetings

Yenyoung and I met at Einstein's again this past Wednesday. We sat, I ate a bagel, and two interesting points of conversation arose.

One of which was about religion. She asked me about places her daughters could do volunteer work - specifically libraries and churches. I gave her as much help as I could considering she resides in Keller. Then she asked me how much volunteer work I do per week. I was slightly taken off guard by this question, because I have never considered it myself. I gave her my high school average - which was maybe three hours on a good week. She asked about it now though, and I really had to think about it before I gave her the answer of at least 10 hours a week. Taken back, she asked what it was I did. From there I continued to tell her about Young Life, mainly making it sound like a mentor program with high school students, but she was still confused as to why I would give away so much of my time to simply mentor and get nothing in return. So it was there that I began to talk about God some, nervous of what the reaction would be, and to my surprise it was almost a joyful smile that spread across her face. She doesn't go to church, and isn't a Christian, but she is curious. She finds it intriguing and loved hearing about it. It was a great conversation that went from there.

Then after all our talking, the final thing she hit me with is that she didn't want to just meet anymore. She wanted to start doing things, going places, and experiences TCU and Fort Worth more. So next week we are meeting at a Vietnamese Restaurant were she is buying me lunch. I am a picky eater - so this will be interesting. Then as I am going to get my bike, she asked if I work out. And yes - you guessed it - she wants us to work out together in the gym. I'm down. So in two weeks you will be hearing anecdotes from our trip to the gym. Get excited.