Tender Mercies

Things are looking up for us right now and I hesitate to say that because I am so scared that something will go wrong. I just have to have faith that this is what the Lord wants and to be thankful for it.

Last Tuesday I had to go up to Salt Lake and take a drug test and some other things for my job with IHC. Josh also got a second interview with Fastenal and so we went up together and our plan was to look for a place to live. I was really nervous because I didn't know what we were going to do. My main goal for the day was to come home with a place to live.

While Josh was interviewing I went to one apartment complex and asked if they had any three bedroom apartments available. They didn't have anything available until August, well I needed something in July. She said that she would call over to another complex that their company owned to see if they had anything. Well, unfortunately they didn't and the lady felt really bad. She did give me an apartment guide that I could look through to help me find a place. I took the book, my three kids and went out to the car trying to figure out where to go next. Lexi said that she needed to go to the bathroom so she went back in. While she was in there the lady received a call from the other apartment place stating that they had something come available. The lady saw Lexi and knew that we were still there. While Lexi was in the bathroom, I was outside very discouraged and calling apartments to see what they had available and cost and so on. I didn't know what I was going to do I was just hoping that something would happen. Well, the lady came out and told me what happened and we headed over to the other apartment place. I filled out the paper work at the new place and they ran the check and everything was accepted.

When I got over to the new place the lady told me that the people that were moving out had actually given their notice for August but had come in right after she received the phone call and told her that the job that they were taking in Texas wanted them to come out their earlier and they would be leaving the first week of July. I don't think that this is a coincidence. I had been praying and asking Heavenly Father for help for so long with this housing issue and job issue that I feel like this has been a tender mercy extended to me and my family.

Now to Josh.....He had his second interview and he was offered the job the next day. He starts his new job on July 1st. This also is something that I have been asking the Lord to help us with over and over for the past few weeks. Again, not a coincidence but the gentle touch and guidance of the Lord's hand when we truly needed it.

I start my new job on the 7th of July, but we can't move in until the 12th of July. So there will be a week that we will not have a place to live and that I will have to figure something out with my kids, but I know that things will work out and we will soon be on our own again. We both have jobs that offer good benefits (which we DEFINATELY) need, and we are both making enough to make ends meet. The other good thing is that where we will be living is not very far from where I will be working and just around the corner from where Lexi will be going to school. It couldn't be any better.

I get nervous thinking about it though for fear that I am just dreaming. It has seemed like something has gone wrong for us for so long that all this good truly can't be real. Then I sit back and realize that it truly is realy and I thank my Heavenly Father for everything and ask him to help me to know that I truly am not dreaming.

I think that we truly have been blessed because we have done our part in doing what is needed in order to make things right. We are doing what the Lord has asked us and we are trying so hard to do what is right. We have room for improvement, but that is o.k..