Hey everyone this is Heidi St. John. Thanks for tuning in today. You have found me at the

Heidi St. John podcast and today is mailbox Monday. It's the day of the week where I get

to answer listener questions and we've got a whole bunch of them today.

It's going to be a jam-packed episode.

Stick around.

I think you're tuning in and listening every single time I get on here and I look at your questions it just encourages me to know that people

are listening and that you guys have really great questions and that you're in

tune to what God wants you to do in the lives of your children and with your families and so thank you for that.

I had a wonderful time last weekend in Indiana for the Indianapolis, the Indiana

Home School Convention and my husband and I left that weekend and this I mean true story so our flight got delayed a couple of different times not horrible delays but delayed enough where we were hanging out quite a bit and we had a chance to just

sort of reflect on the opportunity that God had given us.

And Jay said to me that the thing that meant the most to him from our time in Indiana was the number of people that came up to our table.

While we had, you know, we had a table obviously in the exhibit hall and got to meet a lot of you.

We've been doing this for many, many years and the number of people that came up to us and

said I first heard you speak 10 years ago or 15 years ago,

and it changed the trajectory of our family.

We started listening to the Lord

and what he might want for our family.

And you guys, we came home from that event

with our heart so full,

because we got to hear from you and hear what God was doing in your life.

And I realize at that point that that encouragement really is sort of like gasoline in our car here.

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