One of the things that we hear a lot of people say to the guys is "wow...it must be so cool being able to travel all over" and "You are living the life of a rock star" and "what a glamorous life you live." And although the guys LOVE being out on the road and traveling and ministering to people there's a lot of things that people don't see.
Take today for instance. The guys are leaving today for Panama City Beach to do a week long camp. I know...suffering for Jesus! LOL. But, they are looking forward to being with all of the kids and leading them in worship. Anyway, I took Josh to meet the guys to head out on the road. That was at 9:30 this morning. We arrived at the Galleria and unloaded Josh's luggage and gear when Josh noticed that the axel thingymabobber (I don't know the technical term) was broken. Thankfully he noticed it before the guys got out on the road and broke down on the interstate. So, we call a trailer place to get it fixed but they could not get it fixed until tomorrow and no other trailer place was open. So, Josh's boss graciously let the guys borrow his trailer. So we head up to the shop and transfer everything in EA's trailer to the other trailer. As we headed out to head down to the trailer place to drop it off to get fixed this week, the other trailer blew a tire less than a mile from where we had just left. So off to find a tire we went. We went to a WalMart up the road only to find out their tire place closed down. So, we went to another WalMart and found the same size tire, but not the same grade. Well, Wally World wouldn't put the tire on the wheel thingy because they said they couldn't do it for liability purposes since it wasn't the same grade. Really? Ugh! So we left there and went to Kauffman Tire across the street. They carried the tire we needed...Yeah! BUT...they were out of stock! Okay, this is starting to get humorous. Shannon asked them if we bought the tire at WalMart if they would put it on the rim thingy and they said yes. So back to WalMart we went to buy the tire and back to Kauffman for them to put it on. We went back to the van and the guys put the tire on and then we got the EA trailer to the trailer place and off the guys went. So we started at 9:30 and got them off at about 2 pm.
So as you can see things are not always so glamourous. But, the guys were great and did it with smiles on their face. And now they are on their way to minister to all the kids that will be at the camp this week. Just pray for their safety as they drive to Florida. And pray that the Lord uses the guys this week in a mighty way because it seems like Satan was doing everything he could to prevent them from getting there. So it just means that there are some big things waiting to happen this week!
Take today for instance. The guys are leaving today for Panama City Beach to do a week long camp. I know...suffering for Jesus! LOL. But, they are looking forward to being with all of the kids and leading them in worship. Anyway, I took Josh to meet the guys to head out on the road. That was at 9:30 this morning. We arrived at the Galleria and unloaded Josh's luggage and gear when Josh noticed that the axel thingymabobber (I don't know the technical term) was broken. Thankfully he noticed it before the guys got out on the road and broke down on the interstate. So, we call a trailer place to get it fixed but they could not get it fixed until tomorrow and no other trailer place was open. So, Josh's boss graciously let the guys borrow his trailer. So we head up to the shop and transfer everything in EA's trailer to the other trailer. As we headed out to head down to the trailer place to drop it off to get fixed this week, the other trailer blew a tire less than a mile from where we had just left. So off to find a tire we went. We went to a WalMart up the road only to find out their tire place closed down. So, we went to another WalMart and found the same size tire, but not the same grade. Well, Wally World wouldn't put the tire on the wheel thingy because they said they couldn't do it for liability purposes since it wasn't the same grade. Really? Ugh! So we left there and went to Kauffman Tire across the street. They carried the tire we needed...Yeah! BUT...they were out of stock! Okay, this is starting to get humorous. Shannon asked them if we bought the tire at WalMart if they would put it on the rim thingy and they said yes. So back to WalMart we went to buy the tire and back to Kauffman for them to put it on. We went back to the van and the guys put the tire on and then we got the EA trailer to the trailer place and off the guys went. So we started at 9:30 and got them off at about 2 pm.
So as you can see things are not always so glamourous. But, the guys were great and did it with smiles on their face. And now they are on their way to minister to all the kids that will be at the camp this week. Just pray for their safety as they drive to Florida. And pray that the Lord uses the guys this week in a mighty way because it seems like Satan was doing everything he could to prevent them from getting there. So it just means that there are some big things waiting to happen this week!
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