Tues, Oct.17, 2023, Went to leadership training, shopping at Bealls, to Walmart! Back to Iron Mountain for dinner, to our hotel

Our Michigan leaders at Leadership Training. Only Ron and Bev are missing 

Holly Ogden sharing about CMA Internationale 

Art and Pat from the U.P.  We took Run for the Son packets to Al and Lucy’s camper and passed these cute friends of ours sitting in the back of their car. 

 Bill drank his protein drink and I had a bowl of oatmeal, then I went to the dining hall of our hotel and put flavored creamer in my coffee mug.  I didn’t put coffee in it til I got to Iron Mountain.  Then I drank it during training sessions.  Holly Ogden was the first one who shared.  She is just a young wife and mom, but she is over all of our CMA International Countries.  She visits all of them and helps them and is so amazing.  She shared about each one and did an awesome job.  These countries are doing amazing things, even during lots of hardships because of their love for Jesus and how the Holy Spirit is helping them.  She also is on the team that is over the new Web Portal.  She does an amazing job with that too and did a great job explaining some changes and how things are working now.  Our National Evangelist share some about the website too.  Then Jerod shared a great teaching on prayer and how important it is.  We went to lunch and had chicken salad sandwiches, chili and hotdogs, salad, chips and dessert.  At 1 we went in for mor training.  Ben and Rachael shared about the youth movements in every region.  They are just a young couple with a baby, but do an amazing job with the youth and travel all over the US to every region.  They have been to our state Rally a couple of times. John Ogden Sr. Spoke again, then we were dismissed at 2:30.  We cleared our table decorations and tablecloths off and packed stuff up.  It didn’t take long at all with so many of us.  We went to Bealls, a store we love in Florida.  We just realized they have one here. It’s kind of like ShopKo was in Standish.  I found a really nice comfortable pair of sandals on clearance, so got them and took the cheap Walmart ones back, because they weren’t comfortable. We relaxed after that til we went back for fried chicken dinner at Iron Mountain.  Yum! Everything was delicious.  We all sat at the tables visiting and then finally left to go back to our hotels.  We have tomorrow as a free day so will be traveling to see the country side after we all meet for breakfast.