Program is misreading my input

So. I'm doing a tutorial on java and playing with making a D&D character sheet saver. The problem I'm having is not a serious one but after I've commanded it to load, it does the message as expected but then when I input 'new' and hit enter it waits until I hit enter again and then it does my else code instead of my if for "new". I end up having to type it again.

do {
        if (command.equalsIgnoreCase("new")) {
            System.out.println("Let's create a character!\n");

    // ...then a bunch of other code that doesn't matter and then:*

    // LOAD CHARACTER
        else if (command.equalsIgnoreCase("load")) {
            // placeholder for load char.
            System.out
                    .println("This is where we will load a character in the     future.  For now it is empty, please select new.");
            command = text.nextLine();
            // EXIT CODE
        } else if (command.equalsIgnoreCase("exit")) {
            System.exit(0);

            // Invalid Response
        } else
            System.out.println("Invalid response. Please try again. ");
        command = text.nextLine();
    } while (!command.equalsIgnoreCase("exit"));

and here's how it comes out:

Please say 'New' for a new character or 'Load' to load a previously saved character...
Load
This is where we will load a character in the future. For now it is empty, please select new.
new

Invalid response. Please try again.
new
Let's create a character!

What is this character's name?