Over the last 29 days we have:
Started Looking for a New Job
Interviewed for a New Job
Been offered a New Job
Planning on Relocating to a New City for said New Job
Quit Old Job
And will Start a New Job as an Executive Team Leader (manager) for Target in Helena on February 10th!!
WOW! That is a whole lot of NEW! This news has been very hard to process in such a quick time, but we know that God has a great plan through it all. We have seen Gods hand through all of this and could not be more at peace with it. Do we struggle with our own desires? Yes of course! We have grown to love our little life here in Bozeman. God has given us AMAZING friends, church, home, and neighbors/neighborhoods for our children to grow up in over the past (almost) 4 years. We are trying to focus on what God has plan for the future and not what we are leaving behind.
God has paved the way...
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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Over the last few months God has been paving the way for this move even before we knew it. In December we met with our Pastor regarding some youth group things and during that time we came to the conclusion that we needed to step down as Youth Leaders. This was a mutual agreement. After 3 years of leadership we all felt it was time to take a step back, so to not get burned out. We will be officially stepping down from our place as youth leaders the First of February. This is bitter sweet. We love our teens, but know that we are opening a new chapter of our life and need to close this one to start NEW.
My cleaning jobs have slowly been dwindling. I was at my high peck in August with 6 clients. The start of 2014 I have 2. God has provided through all the loss income. He gave me a job at Target. I had a large cleaning job over November and December that paid for Christmas! PTL! SO Much more!!
Gloria's best friend Moved. I know this seems kind of odd, but she has had one very good friend at school for the past 2 years. We always struggled with the thought of moving because she would have to leave her friends at school. When Stacey moved she was pretty upset. Moving will still be hard, but since she already said goodbye to her best friend it will make it a little easier.
Coming to grips with moving. We have struggled with this choice for a long time. As i said before we love everything about our little life we have made here. A few months ago when we started talking about changing jobs we knew the possibility of a move could be in our future. We struggled with this and even fought about how we didn't want to move...unless it was Gods plan. First and foremost we had to keep reminding ourselves that we are not in control of our life, God is.
What the Future Holds...
Over the next 6-8 weeks Jeff will start his training. They have agreed to let him train in the Bozeman store with some travel from time to time into other stores to get a feel for all the different size stores.
After that time we are hoping and praying that he will be able to find a place where he can stay in Helena while the kids finish up the school year. We don't want to have to pull the kids out with only 2 months left in the year.
While looking for a rental we had stumbles across this really awesome house. I called on it and talked with the Realtor about it. During our conversation it had come up that I had worked in Property Management and Real Estate in the past. He asked "Would you like a job??" I told him "Well if I can work from home we might have a deal..." He said "We might be able to make that work!" After finding out that Jeff had received the job I sent him my resume and gave him some work history. He told me he would pass it to his boss and let me know. I didn't expect much from it, but then today I received an e-mail from him asking if we could get together with him and his boss for lunch the next time I was up there and talk about a property management job. You never know this could be the start of something NEW!
What about Sophia...
Please pray that her dad will realize that his time in North Dakota needs to come to an end. He has been there long enough. He told us that he has a job that can start in the spring, but it doesn't pay as much as the ND job. He needs to be a full time dad. We are giving him till June unless God moves us quicker. Please pray that he can find someone that will take care of her with the same love that we have for the last year and a half. We explained to her when she got to our house this time that we didn't want her to feel we were abandoning her and that we are sad to not be able to keep her with us anymore. She seemed to understand, but she hold a lot of her emotions in.
Housing...
Please pray that we will find the right house for the right price. We got very discouraged a few weeks ago when we went to look at places as there was NOTHING that compared to our place here in Bozeman. We are looking into a couple options and are praying Gods will. He has this all planned out better then we could ever plan it and we know he has the right place for us at the right time.
We serve an Amazing and Faithful God! Thanks for following us on this journey! Please keep us in your prayers over the next few weeks as we will be in transition.
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