We began our travels in March by attending the mission conference in Danvers Baptist IL. We enjoyed the opportunity to be around other missionaries like the Herrell Family going to Lima, Peru. The MK's enjoyed sharing their Peru stories with each other. It was a delight to have four people get saved during the conference.We found lodging and fellowship at Hardison Baptist in Georgia before making it to our next mission conference at Lighthouse Baptist in Port Charlotte, FL.
We had the tremendous blessing of staying with our host Curtis Gidden's during the conference. He tried his best to get us northern people to adjust to southern living by cooking his famous "grits". Jon found himself using the Magic Bullet to make fruit smoothies throughout the week. Brother Curtis was such a blessing to us and a tenderhearted man of God. Jon enjoyed time in prayer at the church each morning. 
Our children were given special treatment during the week with karate lessons, mini-golf, and shark teeth hunting at the beach.We ended one conference only to enter another at Central Baptist in Panama City, FL. We soon found out that this mission conference was during spring break time in Panama City. Our hotel was just a few miles from the beach. Jon saw many opportunities to invite others to church throughout the week. One lady, who was staying at our hotel with her three daughters, came to the service. It was a delight to see her walk forward during the invitation as a sign of God working in her heart. This conference reminded us of the number of souls who die each day without the Saviour as a calculator counted up two souls for each second. It was started at the beginning of the conference on Sunday and reached over 600,000 by Wednesday night. Our daughter, Katie, became burdened to win souls to Christ and began praying for God to allow her to win one soul by herself.
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