Thank you, pastor. I'm delighted to be here. I trust you're going to be able to understand my accent.

I have some problems with yours.

Well, you're talking about food and you call it chow that's Chinese. You talk about the

great prairies and that French. You talk about the corrals and that Spanish.

And when I meet you you say, there go and haven't gone anywhere at all.

You have no idea what it's like for a state old Baptist to come into a place like this and meet with Texans.

But everything is bigger, wider, taller, deeper.

I cannot resist the urge to tell you that in Australia we have a farm called Victoria Downs.

You call it a ranch, we call the farm, it's bigger than the entire state of Texas.

One farm.

If we hear any more bragging, we'll cut it in hard and have two farms

bigger than the entire state.

Now that's stretching it somewhat.

But it's a fact that's bigger than the entire state of Texas,

one cattle farm.

Australia has about the same landmass as the United States.

We have the largest camel population on the face of the earth, wild camel population.

We export them to Saudi Arabia.

We have the largest wild horse population in the world,

the largest wild goat population in the world, the largest wild pig population in the world,

the largest wild donkey population in the world, and of course the largest wild crocodile group in the world.

And when you go into crocodile country, you need to understand that the crocodile can run faster than you can over land.

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