On Wednesday, I had scheduled a day off to account for the church responsibilibities that many of our members are committed to. Since I started doing these trips, Wednesdays tend to have a lot of church-related conflicts, which would result in lower attendance for my event (understandably). I got some stuff done during the day, got in some exercise and then headed out to Portales, NM to visit the Theta Phi Colony at Eastern New Mexico University.
Portales is about two hours from Lubbock and one time zone behind Texas. I didn't realize the time zone issue until that evening and was gettting pretty hungry as I was driving out there. At the last minute, I pulled into a gas station to get a quick snack. I was wearing my black Phi Mu Alpha hoodie and another customer noticed it and said "Hail Sinfonia!" As it turns out, he was one of our lost alumni from the Theta Lambda Chapter at Hardin-Simmons University. Since I have a trunk full of handouts, I dug out one for him to look through.
Moral of the story: WEAR LETTERS! You never know who you'll run into or where you'll run into them.
This was my second trip to Portales. I was there about 2.5 years ago to do an offical colony visit. That group didn't make through the process, but this second group is giving it a second try. All but one of these colony members are from the first go around.
This was not an official visit, just an opportunity to hang with them and answer any questions that may have. As it turns out, we went to the same Mexican restaurant for dinner that we went to on my first trip.
Our discussion was good and they had a lot of good things to say and great questions to ask. I hope these guys have the ability to pull through to the end.
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