Day 8 – July 23rd - Gainesville – Rund Family Guest House
Posted by: Aaron
So this morning we were woken by the smell of Dunkin Donuts. It continues to astound us at the kindness and generosity of others. We got cleaned up and said goodbye to our wonderful friends in Our Finest Hour till we meet them again in a week in Valdosta. We were supposed to play with them again tonight in Byron but the show fell through and it was fine cause my voice was feeling sore this morning, not from overuse though but because we have had overhead fans the last two nights and though I love the cooling effect they produce it always wrecks my throat. Jeremiah had arranged with a friend who lived in Gainesville to stay for the night and since we don’t have to be in Gainesville till the 25th we figured, why not. So we left around 10:00 am knowing it would be a long drive. Jeremiah drove first and we had decided to have worship in the truck. We sang our lungs out for about a half hour to some of our favorite worship stuff and then listened to a sermon Jeremiah had on his Ipod. It was nice and we all just couldn’t help reflecting on how good God has been to us so far. Later on we read some more of “Mere Christianity” which, like all Lewis, is amazing even the second time. We once again passed over a border which is a new tradition inspired by our good friend and crucial My Epic team member Micheal “Mikey” Sanders. Back in our last band Mike drove almost the entire way to Illinois shirtless, it was quite funny. When we finally arrived at Emily’s house we were in for quite the surprise. Her mom had cooked us an amazing dinner. Jeremiah met Emily last summer on the way back from working as a missionary in Jamaica at an airport and she was on her way back from Australia. They have had a wireless friendship ever since and very graciously asked us to stop by if we had a chance. Dinner was amazing and they have an awesome house right on a beautiful little lake. After dinner we jumped in the lake and marveled at how awesome our lives are right now, thank you God. They also had a small boat with an outboard motor and we tooled around for a bit and at some point I double-dog-dared Travbag to take it all the way across the lake by himself, since the boat only went a mile an hour it was really funny and looked a lot like the boat chase in “Princess Bride”. Afterwards we went inside and spent some time with the family. They are an amazing family and we had a good time talking about God, his recently-deceased Godly father, and life on the road. The rest of the guys hung out and talked for a while but I wasn’t feeling well so I hit the hay. It continues to astound how God provides.
So this morning we were woken by the smell of Dunkin Donuts. It continues to astound us at the kindness and generosity of others. We got cleaned up and said goodbye to our wonderful friends in Our Finest Hour till we meet them again in a week in Valdosta. We were supposed to play with them again tonight in Byron but the show fell through and it was fine cause my voice was feeling sore this morning, not from overuse though but because we have had overhead fans the last two nights and though I love the cooling effect they produce it always wrecks my throat. Jeremiah had arranged with a friend who lived in Gainesville to stay for the night and since we don’t have to be in Gainesville till the 25th we figured, why not. So we left around 10:00 am knowing it would be a long drive. Jeremiah drove first and we had decided to have worship in the truck. We sang our lungs out for about a half hour to some of our favorite worship stuff and then listened to a sermon Jeremiah had on his Ipod. It was nice and we all just couldn’t help reflecting on how good God has been to us so far. Later on we read some more of “Mere Christianity” which, like all Lewis, is amazing even the second time. We once again passed over a border which is a new tradition inspired by our good friend and crucial My Epic team member Micheal “Mikey” Sanders. Back in our last band Mike drove almost the entire way to Illinois shirtless, it was quite funny. When we finally arrived at Emily’s house we were in for quite the surprise. Her mom had cooked us an amazing dinner. Jeremiah met Emily last summer on the way back from working as a missionary in Jamaica at an airport and she was on her way back from Australia. They have had a wireless friendship ever since and very graciously asked us to stop by if we had a chance. Dinner was amazing and they have an awesome house right on a beautiful little lake. After dinner we jumped in the lake and marveled at how awesome our lives are right now, thank you God. They also had a small boat with an outboard motor and we tooled around for a bit and at some point I double-dog-dared Travbag to take it all the way across the lake by himself, since the boat only went a mile an hour it was really funny and looked a lot like the boat chase in “Princess Bride”. Afterwards we went inside and spent some time with the family. They are an amazing family and we had a good time talking about God, his recently-deceased Godly father, and life on the road. The rest of the guys hung out and talked for a while but I wasn’t feeling well so I hit the hay. It continues to astound how God provides.
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