Hey everybody this is Heidi St. John welcome to the off-the-bench podcast I'm glad you're here today's mailbox

Monday and I'm going to spend the next little bit of time answering listener questions.

Stick around I think you're going to be encouraged. Well, I hope you guys are doing good.

I want to say, first of all all so many of you coming out to say hello while I'm out on the road and I just got back from

answers in Genesis this next weekend I'll be at Teach Them Diligently in Branson so come out for that

What something I'm really enjoying about a lot of these conferences this year and I'm seeing it's really having an

An impact out on the road is that they're hosting these events

in really family-friendly venues. So Pigeon Forge was phenomenal. There's so many

things for the kids to do there and obviously teach them diligently in Branson.

That's just an amazing place for families to come and you cannot beat the

Arc encounter. Every time I'm there I'm impressed impressed. That place is always growing, always changing,

pardon the pun, always evolving.

And I love hanging out with my friend Ken Ham

and the team and answers in Genesis.

So thank you guys for coming out for that.

It's just been a real joy to get to know some of you

and hear your stories and this time in particular,

I don't know if it's because it's you know a couple of years now you know post

Rona and the scam-demic and all that garbage but I one several of you have come

with pictures of former events you you know, past events.

So, you know, maybe for the last five years,

one of you even came up and had pictures of me from, you know,

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