Dinner at the Simpsons!

Last night we went to the Simpsons to make dinner for them since Sarah is wore out and Dan is a little bit crippled at the moment. It was alot of fun and a blessing to get to serve them, as well Danny and I got to play some Madden together. The kids played well together, and we had alot of fun. It really was a blessing to spend time with them and to fellowship, unfortunately Sarah wouldn't eat my cooking because Isaac said something about me being Shoooey when we got there so she thought it would translate to the food, but ya'll know Dan he will eat anything!

Small Group at the Simpsons

Last night we had our first of many successful small group meetings. We had a ton of awesome food (Sarah's mom made an awesome cheesecake) and (my lasagna was a hit too or so I heard). We had a great time getting to know people in our group even more. The teens sat in with the adults and listened to Dan and I give our testimonies. I learned alot about Dan that I didn't know and it helped me understand more of where he is with his walk with God and that is a truly amazing place to be, to see how much of a heart of service that he and Sarah both have is a real blessing! I got to share my testimony as well and it was the first time that I had the oppourtunity to do so since my return to my walk with Christ and it felt amazing. Jared and I talked a ton more college football and he and I could talk NCAA for hours. I honestly think aside from the food that my favorite part of the night was the prayer at the end, we had some unique special prayer requests and we laid hands on Dan and prayed for his surgery that he is getting right now. All in all it was a great night of food, family, fellowship, and fun!

Finally a good day!

Finally a good day! So I get up this morning and head down to CTI Freight Brokers to sit in on some calls with Dave Begley, I wasn't there more than half an hour and had posted a comment to Paul Peterson regarding church and his Insurance situation, within 30 seconds he asked me if he could call me to help him with it! so I emailed my number to him and he called a couple of minutes later, I asked if he would like me to come by and sit with him and Sherri to explain it to them, so I was on my way and decided to stop by the American Family office down stairs to get a business card for Paul and less than 3 minutes into the conversation she is offering me a job selling Life Insurance (So I am meeting with her on Monday at 4pm) then I got to the Peterson's to help relieve the confusion for Paul, and less than five minutes after I am there Paul was comfortable playing footsies with me! 30 minutes after being there I got a call from this Manager from an Insurance Broker that I have been planning to go to work for in August! I was beginning to worry that this job may fall through, but now with the call from him I am even more confident and willing to get started, It seems like things were looking down and I would never be back to doing sales and now in less than a week I have three jobs offered to me at once all of which may be getting some feasible time from me! Also on top of that I found out this morning that the company that I have been driving a truck for for the last 5 weeks, got me a load that picks up at 9pm in Dayton and delivers at 12am in Toledo and I will still make $500 (guaranteed) money from them ....thus eliminating all of my "commission only worries"!

Simpson/Smith Small Group Cookout Kickoff

Wow what a great time we had hosting everyone out at our house today! We put alot of effort into cleaning up the house with what little time we had to do it in and we appreciate all of the help that we had cleaning up afterwards! Fact is Diana is way too busy to clean everyday and I clean like a man lets face we are dirty creatures lol! It was great to spend some more time getting to know Jared and Christine Taylor. It was generally fun to have everyone down let them know what the Simpso/Smith Small Groups plans are and what we have learned from the Small Group training and how we intend on applying it! Plus we had some awesome food, talked football, video games (talked and played), went over the Simpson/Smith meeting from July 4th that went so well. Plus discussed some more ideas that some people that had not been to Small Groups training! All in all it was a great night of fellowship, food and fun. We were honored to have you all down and we love you! Please remember to keep my Aunt Betty Curtis and her inoperable tumors....God is going to deliver her from this, I know it in my heart!

One of those days!!!

Today was one of those days where you just wish you hadn't got out of bed! Everything that could go wrong today has and on top of that I have a wife who is stressed out because of her job. Julie fell and hurt her arm tonight hitting the concrete I thought she might have broken it and was a little scared that may have been the case! Thankfully she is ok only a minor scrape and a little blood loss and she will be as good as new in a couple of hours more than likely! Also lost to Danny in Madden tonight....Not a happy camper there! I had time set aside tonight to fix the brakes on my Buick and Diana's dad was going to help me, but evidently I didn't get here in his time schedule and he left before we could get them change and then gave me an earful about making him wait! Oh well new day now lets make the most of it!