State Finals for Jr. Quizzing

Well Friday and Saturday we were gone to Jr. Bible Quizzing state finals. It was an awesome time. Our two boys that still quiz as Center team did great. I am proud of Austin Triplett and Haiden both. They did excellent for no more time than what they had to practice together. The boys quizzed at the tournament in January together, then went to the retreat in Vidor in March, and quizzed in Hilsboro in May. Then the past two weeks Austin stayed with us and between Bro. Chris and I reviewing them they had about 3 to 4 hours of quiz and review everyday. That is not very much practice as a team from January until this past weekend. However, they managed to come in 7th place out of eighteen beginner quiz teams. They knew their material well and played the best they possibly could, and now best of all they have about 160 verses from the Bible put away in there heart just from this years quizzing. Out of the top five high score individuals Haiden placed 3rd with an average of 85 points per game and a total of 340 points for all games played. Way to go boys for doing your best! Please forgive me for bragging a little bit, I don't typically like doing this, but I am very proud of these two boys for all there hard work and sticking with quizzing no matter the miles that have been between them the past two years.

Haiden's Experience

Well Friday night June 8th was an awesome night for many people including Haiden. Family Camp was great all the way around with Friday night being the hit. On this special night Haiden received the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues just like in Acts 2:4. You may think well he is just a child, or ask how does he know he got the Holy Ghost? Well the bible says in Acts 2:38,39 "Then Peter said unto them , Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the Promise is unto you, and to your children, and all that are afar off even as many as the Lord our God shall call." When Haiden was six years old we felt so strongly that he had received the Holy Ghost, but he told us he did not know if he did or not. So we left it at that and have just been praying that God would remove any doubt that was there and that is exactly what God has done now. I asked Haiden Friday night, "Do you know you have the Holy Ghost now," and his response was "YES". We asked him if it felt good and he said, "Well of course if felt good." Chris asked him to tell us about it and Haiden said, "I just can't explain it." We asked do you know what you said and he said it was kinda like la la la, and he immediately added I don't know what I was saying. He told us he just felt like he couldn't get his breath. Then the next morning while he was playing with his brother he told us, "you can kinda tell I've gotten the Holy Ghost cause I'm letting Ryan be the good guy." Oh thank you Jesus! Anyone who has received the Holy Ghost knows that the response to these answers are the same way most adults say they feel after getting the Holy Ghost. Well please forgive me if this post was too lengthy but I wanted to put all the details in here. Thank you Jesus for pouring your Spirit out on children also. I will add a slide show as soon as rock you stops giving me errors. Thank you Sis. Elms and Sis. Mandy for having your cameras handy.

Camp Meeting

Well we will be leaving in a little while to head to east Texas so we can attend Family Camp Wednesday until Friday. We are really looking forward to soaking up everything from God we possibly can. We will take the younger three children to their grandparents house, which means it will just be me, Chris, and Haiden. We did not get to attend camp last year and we were disappointed about that. We have been so used to attending at least some of the services since we have gotten the Holy Ghost because our home church was only one hour from the campgrounds. So now being about five and half hours from campgrounds it does not make it quiet as easy to attend, so we are so grateful to be going this year. We are also looking forward to spending some time with friends we have not seen in a while. I know this week will be wonderful with God being the center of our focus.