15 min Phone Call!

Yes! After an absence of letters this week, our family received a 15 min. call from Josiah. They are given a few more privileges. Phew! Here are some notes from the call:

• PLEAD for photographs of family and friends. He said these were the things that seemed to speak most to his heart when he needed to keep going. Send to this address:
  

#451 PFC Wallis, Josiah
F Co., 1-50th IN
9877 Second Armored Division Road Bldg. 3585
Fort Benning, GA 31905-5919

• Asked his dad for a list of verses relating to specific topics (trinity, sexual purity, Jesus is God) as other soldiers are searching and inquiring.
• Cleared up some difficulties we were having with postage and his access to his bank account.
• This entire month's focus is Basic Rifle Marksmanship. Kind of important, I guess :)
• He is loving what he is doing but it is extremely challenging mentally.
• He has the best Drill Sargent.
• He won a competition and was awarded some of the cookies I sent weeks ago.
• Verified that I was coming for the Family Pass Day (over Labor Day) and requested I bring cookies and his laptop.
• Church on the base continues to be a highlight of the week.
• His Drill Sargent says that he has never met anyone who is a committed Christian and been homeschooled his entire life, but the D.S. thinks Josiah has turned out okay.
• Unless the Army changes its mind, he will be deployed to Fort Drum on the northern border of New York (got to protect the USA from Canada :) after his graduation Oct. 15th and some leave time.
  
• He promises to take Timothy (his older brother) down in a wrestling match.
• His nickname is "William" due to the association with Wallis and Braveheart.
• Please, please, please send pictures.