The Lost Soldier The Ultimate Price To Pay

iam at St, Phillips Lutheran Church 1401 west 15th streey in Hastings Minnesota i did a newspaper interview here a couple years back the Lutheran Pastor Mr Ed Fredericks is going to help me replace a bicycle pump and help me with a few dollars to go on they are expexting freezing rain lastnight i just rolled the sleepingbag out on a snow bank and went to sleep all-in-all it has been difficult getting financial help from the churchs but fairly easy getting put in motels well the pastor took mr to Wal-Mart and bought me an Eddie Bauer sleepingbag good to 0 degrees bought me another bicycle pump put me in the AmeriInn and gave me some money for the road he remembered the newspaper interview and asked me to stop by the church for service tomorrow which i will iam going to stop at the Dorothy Day Shekter in St,Paul see if i can wash ckothes eat and leave which i doubt will be allowed and iam going to talk with people trapped on the streets there and see just how much these places actually help people as compared to enabling them to continue the lifestyle i will also go to a rescue mission in Minneapolis its going to start getting chilly i picked up an R.E.I. gortex jacket at a goodwill store now i have 2 winter jackets as i head into northern Minnesota and the final 13 or so weeks of this journey as i end April 26th at the gates of heaven ceremony in Cincinniti i wont go any farther west then Fargo North Dakota its supose to start getting chilly this next week the people in Minnesota have been friendly and helpful Lake Itasca and the start of the Mississippi River is next iam going ice fishing