Ep 45 - The Unknown Assignment: Trusting God in Florida

In this episode of Messy But Motivated, we share the real story behind our move from Iowa to Florida. From unexpected challenges like adjusting to new water, upset stomachs, and the emotions that come with leaving everything familiar behind, we’re talking honestly about what it’s been like to start over.

We also open up about the loneliness that can come with a major life transition and the questions that arise when God calls you somewhere new. While we don’t know exactly what the future holds, we believe this move is part of a new assignment from God—and we’re learning what it means to trust Him one step at a time.

If you’ve ever felt uncomfortable in a season of change, struggled with uncertainty, or wondered what God is doing in your life, this conversation is for you. Join us as we embrace the mess, stay motivated, and follow God’s leading even when the destination isn’t fully clear.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome back to Messy But Motivated. I am your host, Melinda, and today my husband is with us. This is Mike. Many of you already know Mike, but yes, this is Mike. Yes, you probably hear my dog. If you're watching, you see my dog, my cat, the everything. Listen, this is the temporary setup for now, okay? We just got here. We just got to Florida. For those of you that don't know, we moved from Iowa to Florida Friday.

SPEAKER_03 0:24

Yeah, we closed a week ago today.

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Yeah. So man, a week?

SPEAKER_03 0:29

Yep, one week. Wow. It was a fast week.

SPEAKER_01 0:33

That went quick. Wow, I didn't know that. Wow. That went really quick. Yes. So we've only been here for a week and uh a lot of moving parts, a lot of things, but I was like, we have to get our podcast up and going. Um and and and one of the things I want to mention is you're probably noticing this is uploaded on a I think we chose Monday. Mondays? Monday. Um yes, yes. The new um day that this is going to be coming out is on Mondays, um, no longer on Fridays. So going forward, that is what I have decided. Um, just makes life a little bit easier, and you know, it's it can get you guys started for the week ahead because a lot of you are going back to work. So um how was the drive?

SPEAKER_03 1:21

It was uh it was an adventure, that's for sure. It was a lot.

SPEAKER_01 1:27

Yeah, it was a lot. I first want to say I was supposed to fly, and Mike was gonna do all the moving parts, and the kids didn't want to fly. So we ended up driving. And I'll tell you what, we are so lucky. My uncle ended up driving with me in Mike's truck and the kids. And then my and then Mike drove the U-Haul. And um, we had a trailer hooked to us.

SPEAKER_03 1:52

Six by twelve trailer, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:53

Yes, and let me tell you guys, I am so glad that my uncle was with us. Um, if you saw my social media, then you saw what happened, but our trailer hitch, the ball had come off, and so we were literally going down the interstate full speed, and the trailer just was it, yeah, it was you know what? It could have been so worse.

SPEAKER_03 2:14

Yeah. So yeah, you could have crashed.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 2:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:18

And or it could have hit somebody because I mean it took hold of our vehicle pretty. I mean, I'm so glad that he was driving at the time, and that's the first thing I said. And what was so crazy is I put my Bible on the dash like not even five minutes before that. So that was kind of weird, but also duh.

SPEAKER_03 2:34

Yeah. Duh. Yeah, I just get a call from you. Ah the trailer came off the hitch. The trailer came off the hitch. I'm like, what? I pull over as fast as I can and I see a panic. And I just started running towards you.

SPEAKER_01 2:49

Yeah. He didn't even put blink nothing. He had Lou with him.

SPEAKER_03 2:53

Oh, we were sitting in there.

SPEAKER_01 2:55

Yeah, we were stuck on the side of the road for seven hours.

SPEAKER_03 2:58

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 2:58

Um, got it all done though. Ended up driving for two more hours, and then we ended up getting a hotel and did a reset. So it took us three days to get here.

SPEAKER_03 3:07

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 3:08

Three days, but hey, it's alright. We're here. That's all that matters. Made it here for closing just in time.

SPEAKER_03 3:15

Yeah, the only other hiccup during the travel was running my laptop over.

SPEAKER_01 3:19

Oh, yeah, you guys. He ran his laptop. It was middle of the night. We just stopped. It was like 11 something at night. And he was back in the trailer up. He must have put his backpack down. Yep. Ran it right over.

SPEAKER_02 3:31

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 3:31

I was telling him, I said, hey, just to let you know, um, a soda exploded, not soda, uh, lemonade exploded in your truck. And he's like, Well, that's not the only thing that happened. And he showed me his laptop. I'm like, oh no. So yeah. But honestly, that was kind of God sent because you hated that thing for school.

SPEAKER_03 3:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:51

He had a MacBook for school and he did not like it.

SPEAKER_03 3:54

Yeah, it was a MacBook error. Oh, they're just not, you know, you gotta turn everything in in Microsoft. Apple's not very friendly when it comes to that stuff.

SPEAKER_01 4:06

Yeah. So that was good. We ended up getting Audal taken care of. The kids did great.

SPEAKER_03 4:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:12

They did great.

SPEAKER_03 4:13

You never known, would have known they were there.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

You wouldn't have. Like at one point, Carson's like, that wasn't bad at all. And I'm thinking, what? Like what?

SPEAKER_03 4:20

And I was at the end of an 18-hour day.

SPEAKER_01 4:22

Yes. And honestly, I was so my uncle and me got to talk so much. Me and my uncle have always had a great relationship, but we've never gotten the chance to like actually sit and talk for a while without any interruptions. And so we had a great conversation. Um it it was just honestly, it was much needed, and I loved it. I loved it. Uh my uncle's always been like my because my my dad's never really been, you know, very present in my life. And so my uncle has always been a constant in my life. So it's nice to get time alone with him, and you know, it was great. I I loved it. Um, I was sad to see him go. So and then my mom got here with the animals.

SPEAKER_03 5:08

Yep, the next day.

SPEAKER_01 5:09

Yes, that was fun. Got all of our animals here safely, safely. Bun bun was a little touch and go in the beginning.

SPEAKER_03 5:15

Yeah, he made it though.

SPEAKER_01 5:16

He did. He made it. Um, he was a little touch and go. He was uh when we first got him here, um, he wasn't going to the bathroom, and I was a little nervous, but it's just because he wasn't eating. But man, let me tell you, he's he's a trooper. He's fine. He actually has a little nook underneath our stairs downstairs, and I absolutely freaking love it. I love it, you guys. I love it. He is right there with the family. He loves it. He loves it.

SPEAKER_03 5:42

He's a Harry Potter bunny.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

He is. I think I'm gonna decorate it in Harry Potter because he you guys, he loves his new area. Like every time I peek around the corner just to look at him, he's all sideways. Like he's he's just loving it. And he'll peek out at us. He's not he will come out at one point.

SPEAKER_03 5:57

Yeah, but like a foot.

SPEAKER_01 5:58

Yeah, but right now he's just a little scared, but he's going to come out one day. I know he will. And then the cats are they're fine. Mom said that um drugged him up. She had to drug up um Rip because he wouldn't stop crying. So we did go to the vet and get some I said Osempic, not Ozempic, uh, gabapiton. Um, and so she said he slept almost the whole way, and then um Diane just sat in between my mom and my my cousin Marie, and he was he was their little road cat. And they said he was fine. He was great. So everything worked out great. Um, I have no complaints because I've heard some horrible stories before about people moving across country. So I'll take what we what hiccups we had.

SPEAKER_03 6:44

Yeah, yeah. I mean we made the best of those seven hours, you know.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

Yeah, we did.

SPEAKER_03 6:50

Went and got some food.

SPEAKER_01 6:53

Yeah, we did all the things. Um I finally went to a Bucky's. That was kind of cool. Never been to a Bucky's guy.

SPEAKER_03 7:01

That's an experience.

SPEAKER_01 7:02

It is. If you haven't gone to a Bucky's, definitely go. It but honestly, it's it's like it's just a gas station on steroids. But it's pretty cool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:10

I mean, there's so much in there.

SPEAKER_01 7:12

Yeah. I liked it. I mean, pretty cool. Supposedly their food's really good. Um, I did not eat anything though, so I couldn't speak on that. But you did, didn't you?

SPEAKER_03 7:20

Yeah, I had the uh brisket sandwich.

SPEAKER_01 7:22

Oh, what's that?

SPEAKER_03 7:23

It was alright. It would have been better if it was warm. It was cold.

SPEAKER_01 7:25

Oh, man.

SPEAKER_03 7:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:27

Was there an option to do cold or warm?

SPEAKER_03 7:29

No, I don't know. Paul handed it to me. Oh.

SPEAKER_01 7:31

Well, dang it.

SPEAKER_03 7:32

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 7:32

That's alright. Supposedly we're getting one around here somewhere.

SPEAKER_03 7:36

Oh, really? Mm-hmm. Nice.

SPEAKER_01 7:37

Yeah. Um, we went to church here for the first time on Sunday. It was a little overwhelming. The church is huge, and supposedly that's not even the biggest church. That's not even their like their home church. Um, but it seemed very welcoming, and I liked. I mean, it was the youth pastor that was speaking, and it was good.

SPEAKER_03 7:56

Um, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:59

So, I mean, it's hard w not seeing Pastor Jason up there.

SPEAKER_03 8:04

Yeah, it was weird. Same thing with like Josh for worship.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:08

Worship was weird.

SPEAKER_01 8:09

Yeah, worship's a and it's not weird, it's it's different for us. We're gonna get used to it.

SPEAKER_03 8:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:14

It's just all we've ever known during our faith journey is Pastor Jason, our worship team, our, you know, and and that's all that we knew. And so now we're having to learn how to adjust. Yeah. And I think that's a that's a little bit too, guys. I I I wanted to make this episode, I obviously wanted to give you guys an update. But just to kind of give you an insight, first off, I want to tell you that what you see is not all butterflies and rainbows, okay? You don't just move to Florida and everything is all great and you're like, oh, this is this is awesome. Um, I want you to know I've had a huge, huge reality check when it comes to insects in the house. Mike has already had a spray, and we supposedly have this like thing around our house that's supposedly.

SPEAKER_03 9:06

I don't know if they've activated it yet. Oh. He said they were supposed to come by and like I don't know, it's like these wires that run through your house, or not wires, but tubes, and they insert the insecticide in it.

SPEAKER_01 9:19

Cause we built on a what is this called?

SPEAKER_03 9:23

Like preservation.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

A preservation. So, I mean, duh, you were gonna have yeah. Um, so we have decided when it comes to the cat, because I know a lot of people were questioning that, um, yes, he usually is outside all the time. He hasn't really given us any like he wants to go. He does go out there, like in our screened in patio, and then comes right back inside. We've decided to put a fence up, um, a privacy fence that's like six feet so that he can't get out because we're a little nervous. Supposedly bobcats are around here, and obviously gators, and I think it's gonna be better. I told Mike you need to plant some bushes back there, so he feels like he's on a like he's on a hunt. He likes to hunt. He can still catch things, yeah. For sure. So that's uh we just got the quote and everything, so we'll probably be moving forward with that soon. Um other than that, the other thing that is really affecting me is the water. We think it's the water. My belly has been upset, it has been tore up since we moved here. And the only thing I can honestly, like, I'm I'm putting it towards is the water. I think it's the water.

SPEAKER_03 10:33

Well, like I said, every time I went to another country overseas and you drank their water, you I always get sick.

SPEAKER_01 10:41

Yeah, so definitely think it's the water. Um, we are putting like a RO system in, and that should help a little. Um, until then I'm just gonna do bottled water because I am I'm hurting. I'm hurting. Uh my my belly just hurts so bad. Um, so that kind of is not fun. But what do you do? What do you do? You know what I mean? Carson's allergies are great. They're great. We're going actually back to the beach tonight. We've been twice now. We've been twice in a week. Oh wow. We're going back tonight for dinner. We're gonna take uh Papa John's pizza out there. Yeah, eat some dinner. Um, kids are loving it. We love the beach, obviously. Water is super warm right now. We're just trying out different beaches, see which ones we really like. Um, my mom and uh her cousin just left. That was sad.

SPEAKER_02 11:34

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 11:35

That's where I was going into the whole fact that it's so hard to like the hardest part obviously was leaving our friends and our family. But we were talking about how it that was just like a chapter of our lives being in Clear Lake, and that chapter ended, and obviously a new one's beginning, and we don't know where it's taking us.

SPEAKER_03 12:05

No idea.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

We have no idea. All I know is that I said, God use me, and here I am in Florida right now. I don't know where he's putting me. I have no idea. I'm the girl right now trying to make friends because I do feel a little bit lonely. I'm not gonna lie, it's only been a week, but I'm used to um I'm used to going to a small group and they met on Monday and I was kind of sad I wasn't there. And um I'm used to being involved in the church and I'm used to all the things and um so I had reached out to um not even reached out. Mike joined a small group at our church, and I went to go up like look and see if there was one, and there really weren't any available, I guess just none that were it was like for small kids, like if you had baby like t toddlers and just nothing for me. So I posted on like our neighborhood page and was like, hey, kind of new here, anybody, but everybody else is new too. So I would feel like yeah, so I'd feel like people would want to make friends.

SPEAKER_03 13:06

A lot of New Yorkers.

SPEAKER_01 13:07

A lot of New Yorkers, yeah. So I don't know. I just I'm hoping that I just you know I'm not gonna force it either. Just find my people, I guess, as it goes. I just also laid in bed last night and I felt I told Mike we had to talk about it this morning, I felt very overwhelmed last night. I felt kind of lonely and I didn't like that feeling at all.

SPEAKER_03 13:27

So I it's only been a week though.

SPEAKER_01 13:30

I know it's only been a week, and I had to tell myself that.

SPEAKER_03 13:32

It's an adjustment. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:34

So and we have each other, and I had to remind myself that.

SPEAKER_03 13:38

I'll ask the guys in that men's group too, like what did their wives do?

SPEAKER_01 13:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:43

I don't know how many people are there. I don't know anything about it.

SPEAKER_01 13:46

But I I did. I looked over at you, you were sleeping. And I was just like, okay. I need to remind myself I have you. And I know how people hate I hate or a lot of people hate when they're like, that's my best friend. I mean, are we not supposed to be best friends? Because I'm confused.

SPEAKER_03 14:05

Yeah, we are.

SPEAKER_01 14:06

Okay. Cause I feel like you're my best friend. So when I look over. Right? So I feel comforted, like knowing, okay, like I had to bring myself down because the enemy always likes to tell you, hey, you're alone. And that's what the feeling I was having. I woke up feeling alone and looked over, and I'm like, no, you're not alone. You have your best friend right there. Like, you're gonna be alright. So I started to talk to him about it. Um, and then I want to read to you guys something that I found this morning because it really um opened my eyes to some things. So let me hold on. First off, I have to say I love this book. A lot of you have already read it. Um, it is uh by Rick Warren, The Purpose-Driven Life. And this I needed. This life is not all there is. Life on Earth is just the dress rehearsal before the real production. You will spend far more time on the other side of death in eternity than you will here. Earth is the staging area, the preschool, the tryout for your life in eternity. It is the practice workout before the actual game, the warm-up lap before the race begins. The life is preparation for the next. And it made me realize because a lot of me right now is sad because I feel like, oh my gosh, I left, I left everybody, and I've been praying on it. And God just keeps reassuring me that I left them, but I'm gonna see them again for eternity. I'm gonna we're gonna be together in heaven because I know those people, everyone, I can't say there's there's one that I left that I know isn't gonna be in heaven. I I there's none. Because you know, some people live their whole life thinking, oh, you can be a good person and make it to heaven. And the people that I really like my my friends, my family, they understood that that's not that's not gonna get you to heaven, you know, and we had the conversations, the hard conversations.

SPEAKER_03 16:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:02

And I feel like now this is a new assignment from God. God is saying, Hey, I need you here because all those people they're going, Melinda, you're gonna see them for eternity. You're gonna be with them again. I need you here.

SPEAKER_03 16:16

For some reason.

SPEAKER_01 16:17

For some reason.

SPEAKER_03 16:19

Yeah, and I mean they can come visit. We live in paradise now.

SPEAKER_01 16:23

Yeah, we do. And people are already planning their trips.

SPEAKER_03 16:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

And it's makes me so excited. It does. Because I don't want to lose connection with any any of them. I don't. I I mean, even my mom, she's planning to already come back in a few months for Chloe's birthday. Um, I think we're gonna get my niece for two weeks, which is pretty cool. Chloe really needs it right now. Chloe's really missing her friends. Um and that's hard. I think that's another thing that really hit me last night. Is I don't want her to feel lonely because I've I've been there before. I've felt lonely. And it's it's hard. Yeah, I have you, but who does she have right now? I want her to have me, so that's why last night I was like, oh, come lay in bed and watch a movie with me. And you know, I just want her to understand she's not alone. I don't want her to feel like that at all. And we are blessed enough to know a few people here.

SPEAKER_03 17:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:19

We are. Um, but we have to also understand, which we've that our assignment, we don't know what it is, so we're just kind of like kind of waiting for it. And I think in due time we'll figure it out, but I don't think it's just one thing. I think he's gonna assign us with a whole a whole thing of things, a whole list of things, you know. And who knows? Who knows what's gonna happen?

SPEAKER_00 17:48

Who knows?

SPEAKER_03 17:49

Yeah, I mean, it's it's hard to say.

SPEAKER_01 17:51

It is.

SPEAKER_03 17:52

I mean, do I get a job? Do I not get a job? Do I just focus on school?

SPEAKER_01 17:57

We don't know.

SPEAKER_03 17:58

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 17:59

I guess so how he's uh really doing that is he's got that basically one job that it would be hybrid, which would be nice, and he if he gets it, he gets it. And if not, then we're gonna concentrate on other things. And even though I am gonna start really focusing on my ministry, um, that is one thing moving here. I I've I've decided I am going to start working on my ministry full time. Um, so be looking forward to that, you guys. Whether it be retreats we're gonna do, um, I'm going to do um, I I want to open up our my own place so that we can do uh you know small groups and I was gonna do like kind of like a boutique-styled Christian store. Um just all kinds of fun things coming up, and I'm excited about it. Life is life's about to get really entertaining, I can tell you that. Kids are gonna homeschool. I'm really excited about that.

SPEAKER_03 18:58

I asked Carson yesterday if he was still excited, and he said, Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:02

Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be great. Um, and I did see that there are a lot of groups in this area for homeschooling. Yes, they're like, hey, our kids meet up or whatever, and that that will be great. Um, just I've I'm I'm excited for them. How cool to be homeschooled.

SPEAKER_03 19:19

Oh yeah, I know. Two hours a day? Yeah. Piece of cake.

SPEAKER_01 19:22

For sure. So uh yeah, so I mean, we're just chugging along here. Like I said, only been a week, so we're doing the best we can. And honestly, we got this on the wall?

SPEAKER_03 19:34

Yeah. I mean, what more could you ask for?

SPEAKER_01 19:36

What more could you ask for? So yeah, just trying to remember that it's not gonna be easy. But nothing in life that was worth doing. Is that what how do you say that? It's not gonna be easy, but nothing in life that's worth doing or something.

SPEAKER_03 19:57

Nothing in life worth doing is easy.

SPEAKER_01 19:59

Yes. Is that what it is?

SPEAKER_03 20:01

I think it's different.

SPEAKER_01 20:03

You know what we're trying to say.

SPEAKER_03 20:05

This is messy and but motivated, so messy but motivated. Something along those lines.

SPEAKER_01 20:09

Yeah, you guys. I'm I you know, we're just we're just doing the best we can. I you guys, I've been trying to find, I've lost stuff in the move. Like, first off, and then stuff got damaged in the movie. That was messy. We've we've had a lot of things that were like, well.

SPEAKER_03 20:28

The U-Haul was packed to the gill.

SPEAKER_01 20:30

Packed to the gill. So packed to the gill.

SPEAKER_03 20:34

I mean in the grand scheme of things, not that bad. Yeah, but some things were lost.

SPEAKER_01 20:41

And Mike, before Mike didn't sleep for I want to say three days. He was just going, he was just like, he needed to get here. He wanted to drive through the night. I would wake up in the in the hotel and he would still be awake. And I'm like, what in the heck?

SPEAKER_03 20:54

Ready to go.

SPEAKER_01 20:54

He would be so ready to go. So um I'm just glad we're finally here. And we can take the time to we took a nap yesterday. Yeah, was it yesterday or they I took a nap again today?

SPEAKER_03 21:06

Yeah, you did both days.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

Listen, I feel like we deserve naps.

SPEAKER_03 21:12

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

You know? And we got to go to Duncan. We we didn't live by a Duncan, you guys. I'm really soaking it up.

SPEAKER_03 21:19

Yep. What they're gonna do.

SPEAKER_01 21:20

There's a lot of things that we didn't have. I turned on DoorDash and I could not believe all the options. It's crazy. We're not used to that. Iowa, you get six options like it or leave it. And most of the time we loved it. Yeah, all fried. All fried. Some of our favorite places here are tropical smoothie because that was when we met, we used to go there all the time in Virginia Beach.

SPEAKER_03 21:43

Virginia Beach. I didn't know it was like a national chain.

SPEAKER_01 21:46

I didn't either.

SPEAKER_03 21:47

I just thought it was the Virginia Beach thing.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

Yeah. It's crazy. Uh Chipotle. Oh my gosh. How amazing. Yeah, we've already hit that up. I couldn't believe the prices though. What's going on?

SPEAKER_03 22:00

Dude.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

What about prices for we were just talking about this, you guys? Prices for sunscreen. What? Make it make sense.

SPEAKER_03 22:06

It's so expensive. It's like fifteen dollars for a bottle.

SPEAKER_01 22:09

I yes. Make it make sense. Oh my word. It's like everything is so expensive. And it's not just here. I feel like it's everywhere.

SPEAKER_03 22:23

I will say though, eggs here were almost $8. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:28

It's like what the And we can't even get chickens.

SPEAKER_03 22:30

Yeah, where's Liz's chickens when you need them?

SPEAKER_01 22:33

Man. No farm eggs? There's gotta be a place where we can get farm eggs around here.

SPEAKER_03 22:38

Maybe like along the side of the road. People have donkeys around here.

SPEAKER_01 22:42

They have donkeys. They've gotta have eggs that we can get. You know what? If you go to that website or the that Facebook page on that community one. Sorry guys, fire alarm went off.

SPEAKER_03 22:54

And we're back.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

Mike was seasoning a uh cast iron.

SPEAKER_03 23:01

Give for my brother for the house. Thank you, Tony.

SPEAKER_01 23:04

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 23:04

He was seasoning that. It wasn't even smoky down there.

SPEAKER_01 23:07

Yeah. That was weird.

SPEAKER_03 23:08

I think it's just because it's a new oven.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

I thought maybe the people next door, there's a house being b built next door. I thought maybe. I don't know. Anyways, so what were we saying now? I forgot. Oh shucks. Oh, just hitting up all the all the things that we've we're not used to seeing?

SPEAKER_03 23:29

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 23:31

We've got a lot to do. We're never bored.

SPEAKER_03 23:33

No.

SPEAKER_01 23:33

We're never bored. We're never gonna be bored. Um, there's always something to do. I was actually on um this morning, like on TikTok, trying to figure out what we could do.

SPEAKER_00 23:44

Guys, there is I don't want to say it loud, because I don't want my husband or my son to hear, but there's a capybara place where we can go and pet the capybara's and drink coffee. Yeah, there's two, not one, there's two of them.

unknown 24:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:02

One's 30 minutes away and one's an hour.

SPEAKER_03 24:05

He will be so jacked.

SPEAKER_00 24:07

Yes, he loves capybas. But yes.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

I'm like, oh my gosh. The and supposedly there's like a Noah's Ark thing we need to go to, there's a Titanic thing, there's a um NASA, they were telling us. Yeah. They said there's so much to do. And they said that takes two days.

SPEAKER_03 24:26

Yeah. But super legit, they said.

SPEAKER_01 24:29

Just so many things. Um, and we our pool is not done yet, so we can go to another pool. We do have another pool around here that we can go to, which is no big deal. Um, there are there is a lagoon being built right now, which is pretty cool. Can't wait till that's done. Yes. That'll be done. Um other than that, I mean, yeah, we're not bored. Always something to do. We're just doing all the things and uh l letting people come visit. His family's coming soon.

SPEAKER_03 24:59

Yep. I mean, I don't know what we're gonna do with them all.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

Well, we just make it work.

SPEAKER_03 25:04

Yeah, I mean Carson can come so they can have that room.

SPEAKER_01 25:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:07

We can stick three people on couches. And then they're gonna have to have an air mattress in here.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

Yeah. Make it work.

SPEAKER_03 25:14

I don't know. It's a lot of people.

SPEAKER_01 25:19

Make it work. That's what family does. Yep. Makes it work. Um, but yeah, guys, so that's kind of your update right now. And I had Mike do this with me because whoo! Just felt like there was a lot of seminaries going okay, but man, even that's been a lot. We put I mean, I didn't submit two assignments.

SPEAKER_03 25:38

Yep. Whoops.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

Take in the zeros, big zeros.

SPEAKER_03 25:41

The goose eggs.

SPEAKER_01 25:42

Yep, and that's alright. I'm just gonna try real hard on all these others.

SPEAKER_03 25:46

Yes, C's get degrees.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

I'm not getting a C. Maybe a B. Um so yeah, that's it. I'll be back next week and we'll have a whole nother topic. But for now, that was just your life update. And remember that it's okay to miss people, but remember that you will be with them for eternity if they are believers. And your goal should be to make everybody in your life a believer. Now, I'm not saying push it on them. I know we've talked about this many, many times, but I know that people in my life, they're believers, and they didn't just believe that they did things, they're nice people, they're good people, so they're gonna go to heaven. They actually believe the root of it and that uh Jesus died on the cross for them, he was resurrected on the third day, and if you believe that in your heart, you will go to heaven. They believe that, and so I know I'm gonna see them for eternity. So, yes, it sucks right now that I'm not with them, but also I feel like the assignment here is telling me, hey, I need you to do that for others here. I need you to do that. It's time to here's the assignment, I'm letting you get settled, and then I'm gonna hand you over a whole list of things that needs to be done here, and I'm gonna just start checking them off.

SPEAKER_02 27:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:04

Yep. And you don't know whether you're gonna be at a job where they're gonna need, you know, you, your gospel, you to bring the gospel there. Yeah, you never know. So all right, guys. Well, I love you. Have the best week, and once again, um I am on all social media platforms, Mrs. Motivated 2025, and be looking forward to the future ministry that I'm going to be putting together and all the things because it's already in action. We just need to give it more attention, and that is gonna be my goal is to give it more attention because um I believe that my purpose here is to point as many people as I can to him. So I've got to give him my all, not just 10%, not just 20%, not just 30. I gotta give it my all. So um I am going to continue to do that. Don't know what that looks like right now, but we're gonna do it. Yeah. So alright, guys, I love you. Have the best week, and just remember to be a good person because there's already enough crappy people in the world. Be the light in the darkness.

SPEAKER_03 28:12

There's more good than bad though.

SPEAKER_01 28:14

There is.

SPEAKER_03 28:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:15

They won't tell you that though.

SPEAKER_03 28:16

No. They want you to focus on the bad.

SPEAKER_01 28:18

Yeah. So alright, guys. Have a good one. Bye. You didn't say bye.

SPEAKER_03 28:22

Oh, bye.