HELLO ROPERS,

I HOPE LIFE IN THE ROPING ARENA IS TREATING YOU GOOD! WE WERE SURE BLESSED IN JULY AT FORT SMITH ARKANSAS. ALTHOUGH WE WERE EXPECTING A LARGE TURN OUT FOR THIS ROPING, WE NEW THAT THE WEATHER IN ARKANSAS IN THE MONTH OF JULY COULD BE HOT!! BUT LOW AND BEHOLD THE CLOUDS BROUGHT WEATHER IN THE HIGH 80?S AND ABOUT 1384 TEAMS SHOWED UP TO ROPE IN FORT SMITH ARKANSAS ON JULY 13TH & 14TH. ROPERS CAME FROM SEVERAL OF THE SURROUNDING STATES HOPING TO WIN THE EXISS HIGH POINT TRAILER OR MAYBE JUST ONE OF THE 10 BEAUTIFUL RUNNING P SADDLES. ONE BLESSED YOUNG MAN FROM LOUISIANA WAS ABLE TO TAKE THE HIGH POINT TRAILER BACK HOME WITH HIM. THAT WAS MIKE COLLINS. MIKE WON 1ST WITH A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADY NAMED KAYLA HILL. THESE GUYS WERE A 27.14 ON THREE AND THAT WAS GOOD FOR $4800 AND 2 RUNNING P SADDLES. AND IF THAT WAS NOT ENOUGH FOR MIKE HE WON 4TH (29.69 ON 3) WITH ANOTHER YOUNG MAN, PAYDEN EMMETT, FOR $2000 MORE DOLLARS AND 2 MORE SADDLES. ALTHOUGH MIKE ONLY WENT HOME WITH 1 SADDLE BECAUSE OF THE NEW RULE WE MADE ABOUT A MONTH AGO. YOU MAY WIN ONLY ONE SADDLE PER ROPING. WITH $3400 IN HIS POCKET, A NEW EXISS TRAILER AND A TROPHY SADDLE TO TAKE HOME MIKE SURELY UNDERSTOOD THE NEW RULE! SECOND PLACE WAS JR LAYDEN AND ALBERT MCREYNOLD WITH A 29.15 THESE GUYS ALSO TOOK HOME SADDLES AND $3200. NOT BAD FOR A DAYS ROPING! 3RD WAS DOYLE GOWER AND PHILLIP BURKES WITH A TIME OF 29.20 RECEIVING $2400 AND 2 SADDLES. IN THE JAKESTEER DUMMY ROPING 5 AND UNDER WENT TO CHASE KIRTLEY, 6-9 AGE GROUP WAS PHILLIP BURKES AND 10-12 WENT TO DYLON KEENER. WE WERE ABLE TO ADD $20,000 BACK WHICH MADE THE PAY OUT AT THIS ROPING $25,000 IN CASH, 1 EXISS BUMPER PULL TRAILER, 10 RUNNING P SADDLES, 18 HY-O-SILVER BUCKLES AND 8 BREASTCOLLARS. THIS WAS A ROPING YOU DID NOT WANT TO MISS! NEXT ROPING WE WENT TO WAS GLENROSE TX AND THOSE RESULTS ALONG WITH PICTURES WILL BE IN THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE ALONG WITH TUNICA MS ROPING WHICH IS AUGUST 3RD AND 4TH. DON?T FORGET TO CHECK OUT THE ROPE WITH THE CHAMPS ADS. THIS WILL BE A FUN AND EXCITING ROPING WITH A TWIST OF GETTING TO ROPE WITH ONE OF THE CHAMPS?CLAY O?BRIEN COOPER, ALLEN BACH, JAKE BARNES OR CHARLES POGUE! THIS ROPING IS IN ALL THE ROPING MAGAZINES SO BE SURE TO CHECK IT OUT!

WELL MEMBERSHIPS ARE GROWING AND OUR AATRC ROPINGS HAVE BECOME VERY SUCCESSFUL! OUR FINALS LOOKS LIKE IT WILL BE EVEN BIGGER AND BETTER THAN LAST YEAR! BUDDY AND I NEVER COULD HAVE DREAMED THE ROPING ASSOCIATION WOULD TAKE OFF THIS WELL IN TO THE SECOND YEAR. FAMILIES COME TOGETHER AND HAVE A FUN WEEKEND AND ROPERS GOT TO ROPE MORE FOR THEIR MONEY! GOD HAS BLESSED US IN SO MANY WAYS! THAT IS JUST A TESTIMONY OF BEING A WILLING VESSEL FOR WHAT GOD WANTS TO DO THROUGH YOU! IT IS NOTHING BUDDY OR I HAVE DONE! IT IS ALL GOD. 3 YEARS AGO BUDDY WHOLESALED TRUCKS AND I WAS CUTTING HAIR BUT GOD HAD A PLAN AND WE WERE WILLING FOR HIM TO DO IT THROUGH US! I HAVE REALLY SEEN HIS PLAN SINCE WE STARTED HAVING CHURCH AFTER THE FIRST ROTATION ON SUNDAY. OUR CHURCH SERVICES HAVE GROWN FROM 15 TO 150! AND SO MANY LIVES HAVE BEEN TOUCHED AND RESTORED. BUT WE HAD TO LISTEN TO GOD WHEN HE TOLD US TO DO THAT! SATAN WANTED US TO THINK THAT THE ROPERS WOULD THINK WE WERE BEING PUSHY AND NOT COME. BUT IT WAS JUST THE OPPOSITE I HAVE NEVER HAD SO MAY GUYS SAY HOW MUCH THEY LIKED IT. THEY COULD COME TO CHURCH AND NOT BE RUSHED! GOD DID NOT PUT US HERE TO JUST PROVIDE YOU WITH A GOOD ROPING TO GO TO BUT TO PUT HIM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROPING WORLD! WE PRAYED FOR SEVERAL YEARS OF WHAT GOD WANTED US TO DO AND THIS IS IT. IF YOU THINK GOD HAS MORE FOR YOU I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO PRAY AND SEEK HIM FOR HIS PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE. ALL IT TAKES IS A WILLING PERSON AND AN OBEDIENT HEART. DON?T LET THE DEVIL STAND IN YOUR WAY EITHER. HE WILL TRY TO TELL YOU THAT YOU HAVE MESSED UP TO MANY TIMES TO SERVE GOD AND DO SOMETHING GREAT FOR HIM. I KNOW BECAUSE HE TRIED TO REMIND ME MANY TIMES OF THE OLD PERSON I USED TO BE. THEN NOT VERY LONG AGO AN EVANGELIST CAME TO OUR CHURCH. AFTER CHURCH HE TOLD ME THAT (WITHOUT ME SAYING ANYTHING) THAT GOD WANTED ME TO KNOW THAT HE HAD FORGOTTEN MY PAST AND HAD FORGIVEN ME THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS WHEN I HAD REPENTED. SO THERE WAS NOT REASON I NEEDED TO KEEP BRINGING IT BACK UP WHEN GOD DIDN?T EVEN REMEMBER! SATAN WAS TRYING TO KEEP ME FROM MOVING FORWARD FOR GOD BY TELLING ME I HAD DONE TO MANY BAD THINGS IN MY PAST TO BE WORKING FOR THE LORD. NOT!!!!!!!! IF YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD AND HAVE ASKED JESUS TO COME IN TO YOUR LIFE AND FORGIVE YOU OF YOUR SINS THEN HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO DO JUST THAT. IF NOT THEN JESUS HUNG ON A CROSS AND SHED HIS BLOOD FOR NOTHING. YOU ARE A NEW CREATION IN CHRIST AND HE HAS A PLAN, LET ME SAY IT AGAIN A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE. AND HIS PLAN IS NOT LIVING WITH BAD RELATIONSHIPS, NO JOY AND BEING MISERABLE. HE HAS MANY BLESSINGS FOR YOU AND ME. LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS AND JUST TO SEE FOR YOUR SELF THAT YOU HAVE BEEN ADOPTED AS GOD?S CHILDREN!

EPHESIANS 2:10 ?FOR WE ARE GOD?S WORKMANSHIP, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS TO DO GOOD WORKS, WHICH GOD PREPARED IN ADVANCE FOR US TO DO.?

YOUR WORK HAS ALREADY BEEN PLANNED OUT FOR YOUR LIFE JUST MAKE A CALL AND LET HIM KNOW YOU ARE READY TO START WORK TODAY!

BE BLESSED,

BUDDY AND KELLY

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