We have seen around 17 people give their lives to Christ in the last month. That just rocks!!!
We raised over $1300 for XL Gives Back at the benefit concert Friday night.
The family that we are helping through XL Gives Back has been at XL two weeks in a row.
Sunday mornings at West Rome have just been amazing for the last month.
We worked at the XL House all day Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. It was awesome.
I had to teach tonight from sitting on a stool becuase of the above schedule!
I went to bed at 8:35 Saturday night.
Jordan is about to pull her own tooth. Sorry, just a side not of distraction.
We have tons of new people coming to West Rome and XL right now. That’s fabulous!
Cliff does an awesome job of leading our church in worship every Sunday morning.
Texas A&M is killing me!
Our Staff is the best in the world.
Craig, Gina, and Floyd work ridiculously hard to make things happen.
It’s going to be a long week of work on the XL House.
The reveal Sunday night will make it all worth it.
Makenzie turned two yesterday and you can ALREADY tell!!!
Now, the Cowboys are killing me.
It was overall a great day and a great weekend. God continues to show off.
I’m out!

Give it up for “The Mick” everybody!!!!!

One of my favorite conversations of the night went like this:
Christina Floyd: Mr. Jarrod, I’m hot.
Jarrod: Ok, what do you want me to do?
Christina: Well, make it colder.

You gotta love’em!

But, Taylor had fun and that’s all that matters really, right? There ya go.

So, for Taylor, she’s awesome and I’ll be blogging about her on her actual birthday next week. But, for tonight, I’ll keep the camera ready for any opportunity to make some cash. You have fun tonight, wherever you are. You know I will!!!

Anyway, most of my friends and family are probably really worried about this news because they believe that, if I did get a motorcycle, I’d be dead within a week. All I know is that would be one FAST week, that’s all I’m sayin.

Anway, I don’t have a motorcycle, and really don’t have the money to go buy one, but I have always wanted to get the license and today was the day. Wish me luck as I start begging my friends to let me ride their very expensive motorcycles. Actually, you should probably pray for all of them more than me.

Remind anyone you know that we are doing the raffle out at XL for the 2004 Harley V-Rod. The tickets are only $50 each and this bike is definitely worth it. And, your money goes to the great cause of “XL Gives Back” when we will be helping a family in need with their house this fall.

There you go. That’s pretty much the day.

That does lead me to one random question: Has anyone every suffered through the stomach virus and not had someone tell you “yea, that’s been going around”? I’m just wondering.

Anyway, God kind of gave me a day to rest today. I think He knew I needed it. I was able to get a lot of work done that would not have been accomplished if I was out and about. Of course, my plan was to play with the family all day, so I missed that. But, the slowing down has probably done me good, and I had time to blog a little.

Just to let you know, God is really rocking in my world right now. We are having people join the church, people are meeting Jesus for the first time, it’s just amazing. I hope this never stops. I really do believe we are here to help people find and follow God’s plan for their lives and it is REALLY exciting when we can see that happening.

So, the girls are enjoying the summer like crazy. Jordan went to basketball camp this week and had a ball. She is pretty much an all star now. She did get an award one day for Team Leadership. I thought that was pretty awesome. All four of my girls are pretty much the best. They make me so proud.

Well, that’s enough to get us started. I’ll see you again soon, maybe…

Now, let’s talk about the day: We started with Debi’s famous French Toast and went from there. It was AWESOME!! Then, I followed that up with a donut when we got downtown. Followed that up with a Smore, which I didn’t even know they sold until Don brought me one. Followed that up with some mini-donuts, just because Josh and I are such good friends. Followed that up with two hot dogs, followed by a “steak on a stick” thing with which I was not so impressed. Washed that down with some kind of hung pow u thing that Chris Holland suggested. It was great! Had to move to a different area after that and I’m not real sure if this move included mini-donuts or not. Chances are…
Actually, now I remember, it did! Then, we had to close down the night by purchasing almost all of the donuts that he had left (which is the requirement of a good friend) and then, just as you thought we were ending up the night, had to stop on the way home and have some hot wings and fries. What else could you possibly need to know about this very spectacular day. We had some great talks with some people and just had a blast over all. We did spend too much time discussing bowel movements, but that’s another blog for another time!!!

We’ll go to the Nazerene church in the morning and then be back at the festival by about 12:30. Bring on the donuts, oh and all that other stuff we’re supposed to be doing.

Peace,