By Jordan:
Several things have happened since our last post... Saturday the June 26th (also my birthday) I drove what felt like the trail of tears to Bowling Green KY to meet Meagan's parents for them to take Meagan and Jude back to Louisville for the week while I was going to be out of town. Meagan can confirm that I wasn't the happiest person during that drive and pretty much ruined my birthday surprise (a delicious cake from Julia's Bakery) but in my defense it's upsetting to know that not only will you be away from your wife, but you will miss an entire week of your baby's life. Thankfully Meagan was extremely understanding and still went out of her way to observe my birthday... we celebrated with the cake + a happy meal from McD's.
Sunday I was introduced at Cooks in Mt. Juliet as the new Assistant Youth Coordinator just before we left with the youth group for our summer mission trip, although hopefully by the end of summer I will be the Youth Coordinator. The trip was a huge success. We spent 3.5 days working on the house of a Cherokee Native named Villy. Villy's house was in extreme disrepair... we spent the week priming and painting the inside and the outside of his house, shingling his roof, and tearing out his bathroom which had severe water damage. The obvious focus of our labor was to repair Villy's house, however the underlying effort was to connect with the Cherokee who remain highly unreached (only 3-5% are Christian) and show them Christ which they unfortunately haven't seen much of from "Christians" in the past. We also spent the week doing various fun activities with the youth including a Thursday afternoon tubing trip and white water rafting on Friday. I so enjoyed getting to hang out with the youth and the other chaperons who went on the trip and I'm so glad God has opened this door and given me an opportunity to serve here.
We returned from the trip Saturday afternoon, July 3rd, so as soon as I was able to head that way, I drove up to Louisville to get my wifey and my baby. Once I got to Louisville, Gritsy and Grandy had prepared a feast that honestly made me think twice about possibly staying another night in hopes that I might get another meal that was just as good. We decided to come back so that I could be at church this morning. We didn't get home until around eleven, but thankfully Meagan offered to drive so that I could start to catch up on all of the sleep I missed while I was on the trip.
Today, July 4th, was a bitter sweet day... we had a great morning at church and enjoyed getting to meet several people that we hadn't had the opportunity to meet yet. Today was also sweet because it's the day that my sister Lindsay became full-term meaning that we are now on high alert for the arrival for "Baby" Lecklider. The bitterness comes from missing my Paw Paw... today would have been his 86th birthday however he passed away May 15th of this year. Typically on this day in the past, we would go to Lawrenceburg and spend the day there with him and sit in the driveway as it got dark waiting for the fireworks to start at the local high school nearby. Instead, this year Meagan and I enjoyed trying to catch up on some much needed rest and we were able to see some fireworks through our bedroom window at a nearby house.
Although this has been a very eventful week with hardly a moment to relax, I can honestly say that the highlight for me has been having Meagan and Jude back and not just having to hear about their day but actually being able to be a part of it.
Happy 4th!
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