Good evening friends.

It’s great to be here with everyone.  We hope you all had a nice weekend.  Day 154 in Puerto Rico today, man does time fly by sometimes.  I say sometimes because when life hits us with the tough stuff  it sure doesn’t feel like time flies then. So staying humbled  has to always remain on my dashboard.

Thank you for all the anniversary comments today, our 2 year anniversary is actually tomorrow on June 15th, my apologies for any confusion on that.   I was telling Vanessa i miss some of my friends back home today, so she said why don’t you pick up your phone and call them and say hello.  I was like, oh yeah i can do that.  It’s amazing how the obvious can be so unseen sometimes.  With that said it does seem as we get older people connect with each other less and less, truth is I’m not in love with that notion.

So this Wednesday we have a great feature coming up on the Good News Channel with a married couple traveling the world called the “Wanderlusters”  — Real nice people, so that is on Wednesday.  Next Sunday, a week from today we are running a featured story on The Good News Channel about the one and only “Esther the Wonder Pig”…..

At the beginning of 2015 I said to our ELS family I am making a strong push for The Good News Channel to be the central part of our community and we’re still committed to that.  When I say that, it includes all of our Sammy & Family stories also. Through the development of ELS over the last 3 years we’ve  come across so many people do amazing things all over the world its seemed right to share those stories as well.

OK lets close with two positive notions tonight.

1. What will I trade a day of my life tomorrow for so that I am happy about it on Tuesday ?  If you don’t know the answer to that, at least don’t trade a day of your life for something you know makes you unhappy.  That’s just not intelligent and everyone I’ve spoken to and communicated with on ELS is intelligent.

2. I know I’ve been pounding the Vanessa drum lately with the 2 year anniversary coming up tomorrow, but its applicable to this notion.  If I didn’t  keep an open mind and open heart I would’ve never been on Instagram communicating with another animal lover in Puerto Rico who also happened to be my age, and on Instagram what is the likelihood of that ? And if I didn’t do that I would not be living in Puerto Rico today with 5 dogs, an angel for a wife and more importantly my best friend, and a new father who could be the nicest man on Earth.  And to extrapolate this out even further, one of those 5 dogs named Jeffrey also took a leap of faith and has a whole new life,  a life of love and hope.  Think about all the positive domino effects that took place here and how many lives were positively effected.  Sometimes we need to take a leap of faith, and most certainly we need to keep an open mind and open heart.

Signing off from Puerto Rico on day 154, Scott Smith for Sammy & Family.