9:00pm — I actually had a pretty decent little talk with Austin on Tuesday night. It’s still often a struggle to have any kind of meaningful conversations with him since I now know for sure he’s under a gag order, (i.e. forbidden to discuss certain things with me, like where he’s playing soccer, not allowed to send me pictures, etc.)

In any event, I was at the gym and started asking him about church because this is Holy Week. He told me their church was not having Good Friday services in person this week, only online but they ARE having regular services on Easter. I asked him if he ever invites his friends to church and he said no, he only ever goes with his family. I got the chance to mention to him that I was about his age when a friend started inviting me to church that eventually led me to become a Christian. I just told him to think about it. — I was, of course, referring to Brad Erickson, who at the age of 15ish, started taking an interest in me as a seeking, non-Christian.

I asked him what they usually do for Easter and he said they usually do Easter egg hunts and that he still gets Easter baskets. I pretty much ended the call telling him I was going to send him an Easter basket, which, I bought on Amazon today.