Louisiana trip- Part 4

Sunday morning, we went back to Robeline for an event called Homecoming.

It's a day where the families, that have family members in this little privately owned cemetery, get together at this tiny little church and have a little sermon, a business meeting regarding the cemetery funds, and they finish it off with a potluck.

The sermon was very nice and talked about the notion of a new day. It was uplifting and made me reflect on what I need to be doing with each new day that I am given. After a closing prayer was given, the business meeting was started.

Every person (about 30 people) stood up and said where they were from and essentially how they were related to those in the meeting. They went over the finances of the cemetery and how the funds were used for that year. It was so interested to see how the whole process worked and to see these amazing people, who are very humble people from little money, come together and donate money to keep this cemetery up and running.

We finished up with a delicious potluck which had some food that was pretty good. There was this white bean and chicken chili that was delicious! For dessert they had this lemon pound cake, that was amazing. I've never had it before, and it's probably a good thing! It was hard not to go back for more!

I figured I would take the opportunity while everyone was together to get some family pictures.

 Archie, Loretta, Ruthie and Sarah

 Ruthie, Ron (Ruthie's husband), Archie and Loretta

Four generations

 Nixon and Great-grandpa Archie

 Nixon and Great-grandma Loretta

 Ethan and Archie getting close for their picture

This next picture is my absolute favorite picture of Archie!! I told him to strike a post for me, and this is what I got.

Don't you wish he was your grandpa? He is seriously amazing. I love him. 

We also had the chance to visit a couple of the headstones. This first one is the parents of Archie.

This next grave was even more special. Stephanie Gale Thomas is Ethan's oldest sister. Dwayne and Sarah (Ethan's parents) were in Chicago at the time going to chiropractic school. They didn't want to bury her there, since they had no intention of living there permanently, so they decided to have her brought back to Louisiana to be buried. 

It was such an uplifting day, and it made be happy to be a part of such a great family.