Wed., 10/19/22, We didn't have training today, so we slept in, then the guys went to the gun range with Jay, and Doug. Bill did great was was super happy, I did some laundry and hung out on the deck in the beautiful sunshine,

 

Great friends!

Ziggy, Bill and I relaxing in the sun on the deck

Our room

My visitor right below me when I was looking over the deck rail

So beautiful when it flew up.  It's a white phase great blue heron!

Look what sweetie Brielle can do now!

Andrea, Bill, Kenny, Fran, Char, and Rick at the evening service.  Over 2000 were there

Bill, Ziggy, Jay, and Doug went to the gun range to target practice.  I stayed at the house and did some laundry, read my Bible, and sat out on the deck for a long time watching a blue heron on the pond.  It was far away, then flew and landed right below me on the deck.  I was happy to get to take pictures.  Bill and Ziggy got home and sat on the deck with me for a while.  Bill was pretty happy he did so good at target practice.  They had fun.  Ziggy left early to meet with other State Coordinators.  We sat out longer, then got ready and went to Iron Mountain to eat dinner.  We were happy to see Andrea, Fran, Kenny, Char and Rick there.  The evening message John Ogden Jr. gave was so good and worship was awesome!

Tuesday,10/18/22, Happy Birthday Kimmy and Vikki! We love you so much!

Happy Birthday Kimmy and Vikki!  We love you our double blessings

Peyton and Isaac

Beautiful but chilly morning in the low 30’s

Leadership training

Peyton and her friends at school. A lunch aid took the picture and sent it to Vikki

We called Kimmy and Vikki in the morning and sang Happy Birthday to them!  We thought we were calling early but forgot about the time change.  They were already at Bob Evan’s eating their birthday breakfast.  Jared was with them too which made it special.  I sure wish I could have been there.  Talked to them a few times during the day which I loved.  We had a good leadership training and fun with friends.  Our CMA prayer partners are here too which has been nice. Eric and Stephanie are from Wisconsin.  We have see amazing answers to our prayers since we started in January.  We all cleaned off our table as they will put chairs away and set up chairs for the rally tonight.

We came back to our Dreamland place (Rosewood MANOR) and sorted out Run for the Son packets to give to chapters.  Sue, Doug and Ziggy wheat on a tour of the support bldg.  We have gone on it already.  We relaxed and went back to Iron Mountain to eat at the training center.  We came back and relaxed and had ice cream to celebrate the girl’s birthdays!!! 

Monday, 10/17/22, Our stay in Arkansas

Beautiful sunrise off our deck this morning

Where our leadership training and the rally were held

Pat, me, Ziggy, Doug and Sue decorating our Michigan table and putting candy on it

Roger and Rayleen speaking

Jay speaking

Beautiful picture of the first snowfall at Kimmy's today.  

Amanda's sweet baby girl

Beautiful, but cool morning.  We walked around and just hung out for a while.  At two we all met at Iron Mountain, to set up our Michigan table with Michigan decorations and lots of candy.  Adam messaged that it was snowing at his house.  Vikki messaged me next to tell me it was snowing, and then Melissa and Hailey messaged me.  Vikki sent me the picture Kimmy sent her. Hailey sent me a picture her mom sent her.  The snow fall is very pretty, but I'm not ready for that yet.  Amanda sent Matthew pictures of her baby.  She's beautiful.  

We went to Iron Mountain for dinner.  They provide our meals during the leadership training.  They made delicious food each day.  

 

Monday, 10/16/22, enjoyed a beautiful sunrise, went to leadership training, picked up all the Michigan RFS packets of those who couldn’t be here, more great speakers and worship, awesome prayer time

Beautiful sunrise view on our deck

Bill and Ziggy reading their Bibles

 

Pictures of the place we stayed.

Hailey sent me these pictures of her fun retreat with her Christian group from college

Silly Hailey

 

Where our training and rally is held

Setting up our Michigan table

Adam sent me this picture to show me it was snowing back home!  Sure looks beautiful, but I’m not ready! 

Ziggy had the coffee ready when we came out to the great room.  We ate breakfast, drank our coffee, (Bill had tea) and watched a beautiful sunrise.  Left at 8:15 to go to leadership training.  Heard good messages and also good testimonies of what God is doing through CMA across the nation from each area National Evangelist.  Ate lunch and dinner there.  Great food!  Went into goodies and bought a few things.  Picked up Michelle’s patch for her.  I heard from Adam it was snowing.  Also got a text and video from Hailey and a picture of Kimmy’s from Vikki.  The first snowfall is always beautiful.

Irene Bronner died yesterday.  She was 95 and was a very special lady.  She was still going to work every day till recently.  She will be missed.  When we ate at her restaurant, Bill would tell our waitress to tell Irene hi, and she would come find us and say hi in person.  Such a sweet person.  

We came back you our place and had Doug and Sue come too.  We all ate mint chocolate chip ice cream except Bill who had vanilla.  We had a nice evening of fellowship.  

Hailey sent me some pictures of her and her friends at their retreat.  She also sent me two worship songs she loves to listen to.  I loved them too

Saturday, 10/15/22, loaded car, Ate breakfast, on the road by 7:30, while traveling, reserved a room at Sun Country Inn in Mena for tonight

 

Bill and I enjoying our continental breakfast in our booth this morning 

Evan and Jack were so happy today!  Their soccer team won 1st place in the championship!  I am so happy for them.  What a great game for their Papa Dan and Nana Brenda from Muskegon to see

Beautiful when we got in the hills

Storm to the left of us as we traveled. Lots of lightning strikes.  Glad we only got light rain.  Two guys passed us on motorcycles and it was so dark ahead, I started praying for them.  God is good!

Love the hilly, curvy roads

Ziggy and Bill parking Ziggy’s trailer at Iron Mountain where the rally is going to be

They had dinner for leadership at CMA headquarters tonight.  Some ate outside and some inside!

Bill wanted me in his picture

We got ready, then loaded up the car and then had a continental breakfast at our hotel. They had scrambled eggs, omelets, hard boiled eggs, sausage, waffles, fruit and much more.  It was so nice and even had a booth for us to sit in.  We checked out and went back to the room to get our last minute things to take to the car.   It was 50 degrees at our hotel and supposed to get up to 74.  It’s supposed to be 87 when we get to Hatfield.  

When we got on the road, Bill had me try to call a place 37 miles from our destination because we didn’t have reservations for tonight.  Their phone was no longer in service.  I decided to try Sun Country in Mena.  They had two rooms available for tonight. yay, we made our reservation.  Then we called Ziggy to se if he wanted the other room because he was going to stay in his car. He was pretty happy.  It’s a very small town with only a few hotels so they were full when we tried from home.  We did pray though.  We had full reservations at Mena Mountain top resort, but the people in Ziggy’s Air B and B he always stays with canceled so he asked us to come there so he could still pay the same.  It’s an amazing place, so we decided to and canceled our other reservation, not thinking about not having a place to stay tonight when we get there.  Yay, God took care of us!

Ziggy got the the motel 1 1/2 hrs after us.  He drove us to go with him to Iron Mountain to drop off his motorcycle and trailer, then drove us by the Air B &B we will be staying.  We are sharing a house with him and possibly Lisa and Wayne.  

We came back to the motel and rested for a while, the rode with Ziggy to the leadership dinner.  We had a great time seeing everyone, the food was great and the dessert were amazing.  Evan FaceTimed us each to doe a trick trying to tell us what we picked and it worked on both of us.  We chose different numbers too.  He’s so cute!