A Few Things That I Am Thankful For

Hey Friends,

This is Odie reporting in from Riverdale, California. I hope you are having a great Thanksgiving weekend. I am having had a fabulous weekend so far. 

It only promises to get better because we start revival tomorrow at Riverdale Assembly. We love being with Pastor Charles Spencer and our great friends at Riverdale Assembly.

Our Thanksgiving was wonderful and I know Dad will recap it on Monday. I definitely have a lot to be thankful for this weekend and always. 

I am so thankful for my family!! My parents are amazing and I love that we get to travel and be in ministry together as a team. Thanks Dad and Mom for allowing me to be on your team!

I love my beautiful Mama!

I love my handsome Papa. 

Of course, I am thankful for great food on Thanksgiving. This was just plate number for one for me at Golden Corral on Thursday. 

I am thankful to my Mom for being my shopping buddy. She’s not afraid to explore new places and brave the crowds. We have a blast shopping together. 

I am thankful for stars on my Starbucks app. I got a free drink that gave me more energy to shop on Thursday night. 

I am thankful I was able to obtain my ultimate goal for shopping that night. I was able to purchase a iPhone 8 Plus. That was definitely a successful shopping excision. 

A couple of weeks ago Dad mentioned in a Weekend Weview that Mom and I waited two hours for phones at Sam's only to have the last 8 Plus sold to the customer in front of me. Well I was afraid it would happen again this time but thankfully this time around had a better ending. 

Before I close I want to mention that I am extremely grateful and thankful for the house that is being built for me to live in. It is a miracle in progress and I am so thankful for everyone who has made it possible! May God bless you abundantly is my prayer. 

These pictures have been posted previously but they are some of my favorite that I show everyone. 

Thanks you for stopping by to visit. We love having you join us here. 

Odie

A Lot of Activity This Week

I hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving Day yesterday. We had a very good family day. We enjoyed a nice meal out and Kelly Jo and Odie did some shopping in the evening. I will have more description and some pictures of the big day in our weekend post next Monday.

This post should bring you up to date from Monday until now. We did not have to travel far on Monday so I let the girls rest in the morning for a while. When we finally did get around to "thinking" about leaving, we remembered we still had to unload the sound equipment.

Sunday night after church the guys from Souls Harbor helped me load up the equipment in the Green Machine. By the time we finished visiting and drove back to the bus, it was very late. We were in a safe neighborhood so we decided to leave it all in the car over night. We took care of that quickly and prepared to leave.

Traffic was really heavy Monday afternoon. I guess people were getting a jump on the Thanksgiving travel week and we ended up in the middle of it. At least most drivers were calm, cool and collected so I was too.😀

About 130 miles later we pulled into the Flying J in Lodi, California a few minutes before dark and snagged an end spot in the RV spots out front. 

We had a few hours of book work that needed to be completed so Kelly Jo and I tackled that Monday night. Honestly we had ran at a sprint since arriving in West Plains, Missouri on October 8th. We had been in church at night OR had a travel day every day but one and we needed to decompress a little. A lightish travel day helped.

We continued that decompression Tuesday. We had less than 100 miles to travel before church and we took our sweet time doing it. We even stopped in a parking lot and had a leisurely home-cooked meal followed by a small nap. That is what I am talking about!

We pulled into Arbuckle, California about 4:30 and parked on the Burgess family ranch probably two miles from the church. They have a great place for evangelists to park and they have hosted a bunch of people through the years. We appreciate them welcoming us with open arms.

Speaking of open arms, Bro. Nate McCoy and his church made us feel very welcome again Tuesday night. We were in Arbuckle last in November of 2014 and it was very good to be there again. We had a wonderful night of church and fellowship with our friends. Here are a few pictures from Tuesday night.

Bro. and Sis. McCoy

Wednesday morning we moseyed toward Riverbank, California to attend the first night of the Riverbank Thanksgiving Camp Meeting. We intended to find a parking lot to park in overnight but we could not. 

The Riverbank Holiness Church is the host of the meeting but they use the Assembly church for many of the services. I can not get the BoggsMobile into the lot at the Riverbank Holiness Church and even though I can fit into the lot at the Riverbank Assembly, they need the parking for all the cars. That left us with few options.

We ended up at French Camp RV Park about 20 miles away. Kelly Jo and I stayed here in the bus one night in 2010. I told part of the story of a cussin' I received as I pulled in that night. Thankfully we had much better experience this time.😀

We had a great time at the Riverbank meeting Wednesday night too.

It had been quite a few years since we had seen Bro. Jeremy and Bro. Mark Buzzard. They live in Idaho and Bro. Jeremy is the Pastor of a church there. They are two of Bro. Leon Buzzard's sons. Man, it was great to see them again.

That wraps up quite a bit of activity between Monday and Wednesday. It was a great few days for us.

Thank you for stopping in today.

Davy

Have A Nice Thanksgiving Day

Pastor Darius Templeton wrote this in his devotion yesterday. A "little boy was given an orange by a man. The boy's mother asked, 'What do you say to the nice man?' The little boy thought and handed the orange back and said, 'Peel it." 

That is hilarious!

We have so much to be thankful for in our lives. We have reasonably good health, wonderful family, great friends and we are blessed to make our living by doing something we love to do! We have a car to drive, a place to live (And it has wheels,YAY!), plenty to eat and good clothes to wear.

On top of all that and a million more things, we have been forgiven of our sins and adopted into the family of God. We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ and after all of this life is over, we are going to spend eternity in Heaven with our Savior! Wow! What an amazing life to live!

Wherever you are today, whatever you are doing take time to be thankful. In Paul's terrible description of the last days in II Timothy 3 he lists a dominate trait of last day people. He says people will be unthankful, unholy. Unthankful followed quickly by unholy. God cleanse our hearts with a spirit of gratitude, gratefulness and thanksgiving.

Thank you for being a big part of our lives. We are thankful for it. May God bless you and your family and friends with a great day.

Davy