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It's good to be here.

Really good to be here. Really good to be here.

We've been, I've actually been gone for a month, at least a month.

I don't think that's ever happened in 20, what, 25 years?

We've been here.

I'm a church, church boy.

And sometimes you don't know what you have until it's gone.

And then you realize, oh, wow, grass is not greener on the other side.

And then you really realize, you know, some things you learn, I guess, as you get older, you know.

But we went on a tour for like, we're gone for a month. And August 10th or 11th,

we flew out to join the team that was on a tour with Chris Tomlin, Carrie and Cody,

Carrie Jove, Cody Corns, they're married. But yeah, she kept her maiden name because she was famous before they got married. And so now they have separate last names.

And it's, yeah.

So them and then Bethel Music, and we went out on tour.

And it was just awesome.

And the first night we were on, we had our middle kids with us in Iowa.

And my son, at the end of the night night after we led one night, he goes,

I don't feel well. And I'm like, oh gosh. So he tested positive for COVID. So Jen stayed on the tour

with the other middle child, Taya. And then I took Braden. I'll just get in the little Kia rental car

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