What a mess

Two weeks ago Monday Brock came home from work and told me that he had lost his job. That is one thing I never wanted to hear come out of his mouth! I was shocked and a little nervous as to what we were going to do next. I definitely did not feel prepared and wondered how far we really could stretch our money and food. That night for FHE we let Kayden pick out a story from "The Friend" to read. He chose the story "missionary to the rescue" because it had a picture of a train on it. This story is about a young missionary who was sent out to rescue other missionaries in Germany in1939 who could not be told by phone they needed to evacuate to Denmark. He was led by only the spirit to rescue 31 missionaries who were all scattered and stranded. All missionaries reached the Netherlands before the border was closed. This story could not have been read at a better time. We were reminded that Heavenly Father would not leave us stranded and that he would somehow provide a way for us.

Brock had been searching for a new job since before Tyler had passed but no offers had come our way yet. In January Brock had four different site job interviews (in Illinois, California, Nevada and Utah) but we had only heard from one company that he had not got the job. The day after he lost his job I was out with a friend when he called me to tell me that he had received an offer from a company in Las Vegas. Brock was really excited about this job from the moment he had his first phone interview and he had hoped that he would get an offer from them. He didn't take the offer right away because he was off to another interview in Salt Lake a few days later. By Friday he had made up his mind that he wanted to take this job.

And so our life became crazy and to me seems like somewhat of a mess. This company wants Brock to start right away and well we want him to start right away because as of now we have no income, but that leaves us with a lot to do all at once. We have to sell our house and we put it up on the market this week. I have been frantically trying to get my house in order to even look nice for people to come and walk through (I am painting my cupboards so my kitchen is a disaster until I get that done and I painted my front entry way. Two things I have wanted to do for a long time but never got to it). I felt strongly that I needed to stick around in Rock Springs and be a single mom to help sell the house. We are a one car family at the moment because Brock's car is literally on its death bed so now we are faced with a set of new problems as to what Brock is going to drive to get to work in Vegas. We wanted to go to Idaho one last time before we moved to see family and let them meet Brooklyn, and also to see Tyler's grave. I really don't know how it will all work out but I just have to remember to have faith in the Lord because he always provides a way. I know it will be really hard before it gets easy. I am so glad that we have so many good friends here I know I won't be alone. We are really excited about the new changes about to take place in our lives but are so sad to leave behind all that we have in Rock Springs!!