Candyce and I got home on Sunday night. Her family was in Phoenix for a friend’s wedding, so it was fun to have my family drop us off at the airport in Atlanta, and have her family pick us up in Phoenix.

I woke up Monday morning and went to the Life Teen Training Conference that we are hosting here in Phoenix. Over 500 Youth Ministers and priests came in from around the country to be trained over the past four days. This year’s conference was different b/c he now hold it at a five star resort that has an eight-acre water park. The conference rooms were quite beautiful with lots of attention to detail. I could go on forever, but it’s basically a really nice place that made the conference better.

Luckily, I didn’t have to do any speaking at the conference. I am all speaked-out after six days at camp. So much job was to hang out and meet people in between sessions. Conference season is an exciting time because I get to see old friends and make new friends. Some of these people saw me on the “Real World” five years ago, and others just know me as the guy who runs lifeteen.com. Either way is fine with me.

It was real affirming to have so many people say nice things about lifeteen.com. I can tell that since we launched the new site in February, the site is gaining popularity. People who visited before keep visiting. Several people explained that they check it several times a day. One Youth Minister said that teens come over her house after youth group just so they can watch videos on the site. These things mean a lot to me, because getting that site up was a long and painful fight. It was worth it.

Candyce and her family are leaving tomorrow morning. I’ll be traveling for most of the month of July, and we are going to Cabo together in August. I will miss her over the next month, but I’d rather have her spending time with her family at the beach than sitting at home in Phoenix all alone while I’m off traveling.

Tomorrow will be the first day that I get to work with our full-time intern named Adam. With him taking care of the site, my days on the road this summer won’t be filled with frustration anxiety. If anyone needs something done on the site, they can just call him. Plus, he’s a talented guy, and we’ll be able to do some amazing things this year. This is the beginning of a new chapter for our website. Praise God!

Okay gotta go…Matt Maher and I are going out for dinner and we’re going to see “War of the Worlds.”