Good morning, Team, Attached below is the Team V Shirts we have designed. They will be a light weight Quick Dri T-shirt. I am going to talk to shirt company today and see how they want to handle delivery. I believe they can be ordered through their website and sent directly to you. But if not, I will send in order and then deliver to you from there. I will let you know the details before we decide how to collect your sizes and quantities later today. The dry-fit shirts I figured would be the best because of our Texas heat and I am sure we will be competing in May and put to the test with the monthly goals we have been doing. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions. The cost for the shirts is $11.00each. This is a lifelong friend and is cutting us a huge deal on these. They may be slightly more and have some freight attached if they send them to your homes directly, but we will work that out later once I know how we are going to order. When you decide what size, you want so keep in mind that if you are not going to tuck them in and conceal carry with them you might want a size larger. Have a great day! And God Bless.

Good morning, Team, V, Been up since 1:42 This morning. Did two stretches, my sit-ups, push-ups and walked a little over a mile this morning. After that I spent some time with the Lord and prayed for you. I had an amazing Bible study this morning and just wanted to share. BE WARNED IT IS NOT SHORT. But it is good and I needed to hear it so I thought I would share with you to admonish and encourage you. I have been reading the book of 1 Corinthians line by line, precept upon precept and Chapter 10 just this part hit like a ton of bricks but encouraged me as well. So here we go! 1 Corinthians 10:4-13 (NKJV) 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. 6 Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. 7 And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” 8 Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell; 9 nor let us [a]tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; 10 nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11 Now [b]all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our [c]admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to [d]bear it.

Good morning teammates, I have been reading the book of Corinthians and this verse of scripture jumped of the page to me today and I thought I would share it and my thoughts. We are doing this team challenge for the next few months, and I thought we could all use this. We talk about discipline all the time on FMTA. Even Jason has T-shirts and a book that says and covers this and He talks about in all the time, "Discipline. So here you go. 1 Corinthians 9:27 27 But I Discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified. I wrote the following even though some of them I am meeting or even exceeding through this challenge, I know I can do better: 1) Getting up enough sleep by going to bed earlier 2) Getting up earlier 3)Doing all my exercise in the morning including ruck. 4)Spend more time with God first thing in morning 5)Eating better to support my life goals. 6) Pray more and fast more. Prayer: God, please help me to discipline my body. Help me to be a better son of yours and do the things I have listed above; Help me to get enough sleep, wake up early, do my exercises first think in morning, help me to spend more time with you, first thing, help me to eat better to support my life goals. Help me to pray more and spend time Confession: I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me! Confession: I can do everything, I need to, to discipline my body through Christ who strengthens me! There for I can go to bed earlier, I can do my daily exercises first thing in morning, I can spend more time with you first thing in the morning, I can eat better in order to support my life goals, and I can spend more time praying and fasting. In Jesus name!

For accountability I posted this on the FMTA platform as well and wanted to post it here to, so you all as my team can hold me accountable. I just finished reading Overcoming the Suck! I listen to Jocko and Goggins almost every day and have listened to Extreme Ownership audio book multiple times and have listened to Goggins new book Never finished twice and am on the third time now. I love listening to Jason and these guys! I am going to be implementing the things in Jason's Article on Overcoming the Suck Starting now! I have not been a good leader for the last 8 years since stepping out of full-time ministry. I have willingly played the victim card in my mind without letting anyone see it. I spoke positive most of the time and faked it! But in my head, all I could see was failure in every area of my life. Thank God, He never gives up on us! I am doing principle #1 now with this post! I am owning my failures as a leader to God, my wife, my family, and my friends! I have tried from time to time to do this but with no real lasting success. The team's Challenge has really helped me in this area. One of the stories from Jocko's book about a blue-on-blue situation that they had when he was in charge of leading an operation and how he took responsibility for this failure really hit home with me. I have been working on this area for a while now since joining FMTA and struggled. I feel like this morning this was a Rhema word from God, and I will not stop from now on. I will honestly and truly take ownership of my leadership role as a disciple of Christ, a husband, a father (my kids are married) as a friend and as a FMTA member and an Employee. I have messed up several areas of my life very badly and they are going to be tough to overcome but I am up for the challenge and hope everyone of you will help hold me accountable! As we say here, "Iron Sharpens Iron". Love you all and hope you have a blessed day. Blessings, Howard

Here you go Team V. Let's show them what we can do! It was drizzling this morning but Rucked through it any way! Then did my Push ups. Sit Ups and Squats. Let's see your results brothers.