178. Seeing God's hand in all that happens (even when it is pretty sucky going through it)
Recently I blogged of my planned trip to get my sister, well she is here now and everything is going great! She was here for a few days and started putting in aplications for a job on a Monday and was hired on Wednesday, God is so good!
Getting here was rough, we started out from Boise going the wrong direction, quickly turned around and went through Idaho and Utah pretty far before the A.C. went out on her jeep. We ended up making it to Fruitville, Colarado and sleeping for the night. Next morning we got up and ate and when we turned on the car it was grinding so we on the phone with Dad, looking in a phone book, asked a guy that was a teenage girls dad to come listen to the sound to see if he could maybe tell what it was--he guessed it was the compressor and the bearings--turns out he was right. We drove to the next large town which was Grand Junction, Co on a Saturday. We called the Jeep dealership (very thankful for a fancy phone now), a lady said they would call us back in 5 minutes--time passes no call, but my hubs calls and tells us to go to a Brakes Plus, he called and said they could have us on the road that day if they have the right compressor....we get there and there is a line with a wait so we go to walmart and get some snacks, then walk around a hobby lobby that allowed us to bring Romeo (her little mini pincher) in so we hung out and waited. Unfortunately they weren't able to get the part anywhere around and had to order it, it wouldn't be in until Tuesday morning so the very nice manager showed us the best places to get a motel and I called and booked us. He was very kind and even dropped us off at the motel, it was a little scary, but I knew God had it all under control.
The 2nd night we went out to eat dinner and we left Romeo in the bathroom because he had learned how to open the front door (we learned when we thought we would go out by the pool and he didn't agree)...we came back to a door that was half chewed up and toilet water shooting out everywhere from the tubes at the bottom. So we could no longer go anywhere without him.
We had been talking about watching all these movies once we got to Texas together and God decided to play them on TV for us while we layed around watching TV for 3 days....
After we got the jeep back and the manager picked us back up we got about an hour away and had to fill up with gas, the cap broke and a man helped us get it open. Next time we got gas we couldn't get it open again and we were in the middle of no where in New Mexico outside a podunk town when a guy and his mom rolled up behind us in an RV and he opened it for us...little things just kept coming up and it seemed like any time we would be talking about God or finally being positive in spite of what all was happeneing that would be when something bad came up again. We were tested and I have to admit I was worried it would be way too much or Brandi, but her faith strengthened and when we stopped for the last time to stop and sleep I saw a sign that said no pets allowed, now I don't believe in lying and i told the other 2 motels that we had a dog and paid the extra money, but we were in a small town and I was worried how far it would be to another motel so I lied and tried to hide him. We were trying to put him in my backpack and had been creeped out by a sound outside by a big semi-truck when a man walked up and joked "smuggling your dog in huh?, I'll go let you guys in" He went through the front and opened the side door for us so we could get in with Romeo....
We were definitely covered in prayer and appreciate it so much and as soon as we got here Brandi said she knew she was where she was suppossed to be and is doing really well! She enjoys our church which is awesome! we love having her and her little dog here and are so glad she is happy again, there is a spring in her step!
sorry for the lengthy post, a lot went down on the trip so there you are
179. My sister being here with us!
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