How have two weeks gone by soooo fast? On the surface everyday seems the same but every memory is so different that I feel like we’ve been here for months. We’ve screened The Rescue at about 15 colleges and high schools in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire thus far and I’m sitting at another college promoting for our screening this evening.
Let’s be real here, when I say a lot has happened these past two weeks I’m not lying and any other Roadies reading this will know what I’m talking about. I’ve been angrier, happier, more excited, more satisfied, and more anxious than ever before in my life thinking about these screenings, our team, where we’ll sleep tonight, even how much I’m eating. Sometimes things are just out of my control and I’ve come to that conclusion quite quickly.
Last week we finally got our missing link back, Josiah Lamerson, from Uganda and the mood couldn’t have been tenser. We were still figuring out how to be Roadies, public speakers, techies, and salesmen all at the same time as well as practically married to strangers. But I think honesty and prayer have their way of penetrating even the thickest tension to find what’s beautiful underneath. We’re all so different and bring unique things to the table and that’s something that can be embraced and praised. I’ve laughed so hard this week that I can see the beauty of every one of my teammates.
Our highlights for the first two weeks of tour include amazing screening at MCLA, Clark University, and Rivier College. Our contacts there are amazing people who put amazing amounts of work into making their screenings the best. Love them. We also had a great weekend with a former roadie in New Haven who took us all over with his roommates to get falafel, thai food, goodwill, the bookstore, and just have fun. It was the first time since San Diego I was able to just let go and have fun. It was wonderful.
Lastly, and probably the coolest thing that’s happened so far is our trip Friday to the Paul Mitchell School in Danbury, CT to hear the dean of all the PM schools, Winn Claybaugh, give a motivational speech on how to better love people. It was phenomenal! If you ever get the chance to hear him speak please take it because I haven’t heard someone so passionate about loving people since I read about Jesus. He wrote a book called Be Nice (Or Else) which you may also enjoy reading if you’re the type of person who enjoys being nice.
And that’s tour so far! We’ve been struggling to make our goals at screenings but hopefully we’ll be higher on the board by my next update. Bye for now!
What a crazy week it’s been. I just took a road trip across the country with some of the greatest people ever. We went to LA, saw Vegas, the wind in Nebraska almost killed us, slept on the side of the road, woke a kid up in the back of his truck, saw the world’s largest truck stop, ate well, laughed a lot, and I’ve never seen more 5-Hour Energy Shots in my life.
I’m so blessed to have been able to experience this and I know from hear on out 
the work will be difficult, the nights will be long, and relationships short lived but my deeper yes is to keep Invisible Children rebuilding schools in northern Uganda, ending the war through Obama, and inspiring high schoolers to realize the world that lives outside themselves. So here goes everything…
Today’s the day! Today we launched Invisible Children’s Fall 2009 RESCUE & Recovery Tour. Launch day commenced with a white glove inspection of our house at 7:30 AM then with a tear-filled goodbye atop Mt Soledad with responses from our fellow roadies, Jed Jenkins, and Jason Russell. I don’t usually cry, but let’s be honest here, I was a mess.
And now we’re on the road via LA, Las Vegas, Denver, and Chicago to New England. I’ll be out of commission for a bit I’ll let you know all about our epic road trip next week. Love you!
When a screening is booked in the IC office we tend to celebrate. And when I say celebrate what I mean is everyone bangs on the table and a large gong is banged followed by applause and high fives. The record for most screenings booked in a day was previously 71, on monday we booked 117. I dare you to count how many are in this video alone.