The girls were gone Thursday-Saturday.  I worked a little more than usual due to some work demands.  This left Marty at home alone for very long days.  It's been a few weeks since he's had to do that.  He was quite lonely.  Anyone that knocked on the door, he invited in.


Friday afternoon a salesman for ATD home security systems knocked on the door.  Marty invited him in and offered him water.  The gentleman declined coming in but agreed to a bottle of water.  When Marty handed him a bottle, the gentleman noticed Marty's CTR ring and said, "Oh, your a member".  


Marty said, "A member of what?" 


"A member of the LDS church" 


"yes" 


At that point the salesman agreed to come into our home to further discuss ADT and other things.  During this discussion, Marty learned that Roy is a return missionary attending BYU-Idaho studying pre-med.  He is traveling the country this summer with ADT to pay off the student loans he has and earn money for the rest of his schooling.  Roy noticed the pictures of our daughters and asked about them.  He was very interested in knowing more about Addyson.  He asked if she would be at the singles ward on Sunday.  Marty said he wasn't sure.  Roy was here for about 2 hours on Friday :)


The girls got home from Trek right before dinner on Saturday.  They jumped in the shower to clean up while Marty and I set the table.  During dinner Marty was telling Addyson about Roy and encouraging her to attend the singles ward to meet him.  As we were still talking about Roy, there was a knock at the door.  I answered it.  A nice looking young man was at the door and said he had talked to Marty the day before.  Marty recognized his voice and hollered, "ROY!!! Join us for dinner".  Roy agreed.


We quickly set an extra place at the table.  All three girls were in their PJ's, with wet hair, glasses and no makeup and a strange young man sitting at the table with us.  We had a nice discussion with Roy over dinner.  He's been quite home sick this week.  He said the trees of Arkansas and the rain we've had the last few days has reminded him of home in Oregon.


After dinner he said he hoped to see Addyson in church on Sunday.  He is being transferred to Louisiana Monday so there will be no more dinner appointments with the ADT man.


Dinner with a stranger was strangely comfortable.  It was weird, but not awkward.  I hope dinner with an nice Arkansas family made him a little less homesick and able to finish his summer job so he can finish his college education.


Oh, and we did not buy the ADT plan.