School ended in May, and James didn't have a lot to do over the summer. It would have been lovely if he had found some high-paying job in construction which would have worked him 10 hours a day out in the sun, but we were still in the middle of the Jobless Recovery and it remains to be seen if the construction industry will ever come back to what it was in, say, 2007. So when the Minnesota Minneapolis Mission put out the call for a few local young men to serve as "temporary" volunteer missionaries for two weeks, side-by-side with the full-time missionaries in various cities in the mission, we jumped at the chance to get James some practical experience and keep him busy for the last few weeks of the summer. The Navy refers to this sort of thing as a "shake-down cruise."
This is James with some of the full-time elders, at the Minneapolis mission home in August 2010.
We delivered James up to the mission home (the headquarters) in Bloomington in mid-August, and they shipped him off to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin for two weeks.
Here he is with Elder Hess, his companion for his "mini-mission."
He and his companion got along famously, which was a good thing. They were both musically-minded and strong singers. James thoroughly enjoyed his two-week taste of mission life.
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