A Snow Day In Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

Travel Day Post

Odie's Swimming iPhone

Sunday was a wild weather day. One hour and 10 minutes before the three pictures below there was not one snow flake on the ground. When it started coming down it really started coming down!

Here's Kelly Jo and Odie loading up to go to church. Although we are parked on the church property it was easier to take the Green Machine than to push Odie in the wheel chair on the snowy street.

We were able to have church Sunday morning but the roads that had not been cleaned well during the day were frozen Sunday evening.

Although not everybody was able to make it to church Sunday morning we did have a very good service. We even had some visitors from California. That's not too bad for a cold snowy day. The folks at South Mission are hungry for revival so hopefully we will be able to pick back up tonight.

By the time church was over Sunday morning the snow was still piling up.

There was a spot with no snow where the Green Machine had been parked but there was no sign of that spot after church. It has been a while since I have seen snow come down that quick.

We had a great Mexican meal with Pastor Leon Rich, his family, some of the church folks and the visitors from California. We spent the afternoon and evening in the BoggsMobile relaxing and reading. Although it is cold and getting colder we are cozy warm inside.

We really only got the northern edge of the storm so it was quite a bit worse just south of here. The weather guessers are calling for more snow later in the week but I hope it misses us altogether.

I hope you had a great weekend.

Davy

Swimming iPhone and Sweet Friends

Hello friends! Odie checking in with you again this Saturday. I am super thankful I still have a phone to blog on. You see my phone took a swim in the porcelain lake last Friday.

It was a baby heart attack moment for me!  I quickly ended the swim. My friend Kaylynn took it and dried the water. Then she blew lots of water from my phone. Thankfully my phone never quit working. 

Me and Kaylynn

Saturday morning while texting I realized my screen was was shaded with water damage. On Apple forums I read  the following post. 

"I wanted to share my damaged iphone experience and offer a tip to help remove water marks from screen after exposing your iphone to excessive moisture. I was lucky enough to having my phone still operational after the water issue but had screen markings / dark spots from water.  I was caught in a rain storm and ended up getting soaked, including my pockets which was where my phone was located. I decided to compile a few ideas I found online in 1 recommended tip. If your phone is not operational, you may just want to bag the phone in rice while powered off for a few days. This is for those people with water marks beneath the screen but phone is still working otherwise"

1. Go to settings>general>auto-lock and select 'never' 

2. Go to settings>brightnes & wallpaper & select auto-brightness 'off', then set brightness level to max! 

3. Connect charging cable and place phone in a bag or container completely submerged in instant rice (uncle bens worked for me) 

4. Allow a day or two of this drying out to occur and observe how the stains start changing and disappearing! 

I was amazed that this actually worked! The rice helped to pull the moisture out of the phone and the screen,  being on , helped to generate enough heat which helped it dry out quicker. Definitely give this a try before spending up to $200 in insurance deductibles for a refurbished phone."  

We did not have rice on hand so it was Saturday evening before I got rice. After leaving it in rice 36 hours the shadow was almost gone completely. Now I can barely see in 2 spots where the water had been.  If you ever have this horrible experience I recommend this method of drying your phone out. 

Now to more exciting things. Wednesday afternoon I had the privilege to be in chapel service at Faith Christian Academy. It was great to be with their wonderful students. I remember when most of the kids were born. They are precious children! During revival and chapel these kids were seeking more of God. It is encouraging to see them in the altars. 

Here are pictures from chapel service. Have a wonderful weekend. 

Odie 

Travel Day - Weir, Kansas to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

Thursday's Post - Revival In Pictures

Thursday was a pretty busy travel day. We were up late Wednesday night visiting with the folks from Weir, getting the blog ready for the next morning and preparing things ready to ride. Then I rolled out of bed early Thursday morning so I could drive to Joplin, Missouri to see Pastor James Link before we left for Oklahoma.

It took me about 40 minutes to drive to St. John's Mercy Hospital in Joplin. I visited with Bro. and Sis. Link for a while, had prayer and then headed back to the BoggsMobile. I appreciate all the prayers for Bro. Link. He is doing quite well with his recovery even though he mostly feels like he has been ran over by a truck. The surgeon said Bro. Link was just days away from major trouble without surgery. Thank God for His help.

By the way, Savanna Coffman is doing well too. The doctors closed her up from the heart transplant Wednesday. Her dad said the ventilator will come off soon. Thanks for praying for her too.

By the time I made it back to the BoggsMobile the wind was blowing about 30 MPH. We were not in a big hurry and I was tired from the short night so I laid right down on the couch and took a nap. Too soon it was time to hit the road.

The wind beat us up all the way to Broken Arrow (Tulsa area) but we made it just fine. We only made one stop other than toll gates. We stopped at Flying J on the east side of Tulsa to empty our holding tanks and to fill up with diesel. 

This was our 5th travel day since our last fill up. That is a whole lot better than what we had been doing. I filled up the BoggsMobile on 5 consecutive travel weekends, the last one being on our way to Oklahoma the last of December. That is a killer. Once every 5-6 weeks is MUCH better.

We arrived a few minutes after 3:00 and parked without any problem. We are excited to be back at South Mission with Pastor Leon Rich and his family and church.

We had a nice relaxing dinner at Los Cabos with Bro. and Sis. Rich and their two fine sons, Derek and Dilan. While we were there my brother sent me a picture of some of my family eating Mexican at Acapulco at home. Even though I forgot to take pictures of our great Mexican meal, here is one of my Dad drinking the salsa at Acapulco! Awesome.

Today (Friday) we hope to rest. The girls will probably shop some because that is relaxing to them. I may not leave the bus all day!

Thanks for reading.

Davy