September began with our second transfer and ended with us preparing for the next one. In between we welcomed nineteen new missionaries, held our first zone conferences, spoke at two stake conferences, hosted our son…
If July was a month of firsts, August was a month of settling in and then being stretched again. We watched two people enter the waters of baptism, welcomed new missionaries, interviewed our way around…
We landed in Fort Wayne on June 22, 2026, five days after walking into the Missionary Training Center and still full of what we’d felt there. We didn’t know much about what came next. Looking…
In a previous post, I described how I migrated flanagan.io from a hosted WordPress site to a static site served from AWS S3 and CloudFront, managed by a Makefile. The pipeline worked, but after living…
The past several weeks have been a master class in preparation — and in patience. We’ve spent countless hours studying. Preach My Gospel, the scriptures, the General Handbook, leadership materials — the kind of deep,…
We left the blink-and-you-missed-it charm of Wikieup and pointed the truck north toward Gunlock State Park, not entirely sure what we’d find but optimistic, as usual. With no reservation and a bit of quiet faith,…
We left Oro Valley, Arizona on Tuesday, March 31, at about 11:00 a.m. Saying goodbye to family is never easy, but this one felt a little heavier than usual. With our upcoming move to Indiana…
We rolled into Oro Valley on Wednesday, March 25, 2026, right on schedule at about 4:30 p.m., which in RV terms qualifies as both punctual and mildly miraculous. We tucked the trailer neatly into our…
On Friday, March 20, 2026, we left the wide-open gravel expanse of Chosa Campground and pointed the truck west toward the mountains above Silver City, New Mexico. Our destination was Mesa Campground in the Gila…
On March 18, 2026, we broke camp at Maverick Ranch RV Park, leaving the dramatic desert of Big Bend National Park behind us and pointing the truck northwest toward Guadalupe Mountains National Park. The drive…