Since the last time I posted, there has been some major decisions made in our house-hold. That has been the reason for the delay in new posts regarding our vacation to New York, trust me there is TONS more to share with you.
I have felt for a long time (about a year) a slight urgency, or a gentle push that I need to look at different places to live. Not knowing why I felt compelled to do so, I researched. I followed the promptings I was given (although at the time I did not realize that was what they were:-) and looked at different places to live.
So for about a year now, I have, well, not really bugging my husband, actually yes, I was bugging him, but asking him to consider moving. There has never been a faint maybe, it has always been NO. He said that he didn't feel like we need to go anywhere, so why change what we have here.
Since I do the majority of our finances, I knew that we would not be able to sustain our way of life if something didn't change. We talked about getting second jobs or babysitting peoples kids, but no doors opened up from our ideas.
About 6 weeks ago I started looking at apartments. I know, such a drastic change. I was ready though, I was ready to make the biggest sacrifice in my life right now and that was giving up my house to live in a smaller place in order to follow the counsel of the prophet and attempt to get out of debt. I was willing to make that sacrifice, I was ready! I understand now that, that is what I was being urged to do. My only trial ahead was getting my husband to understand my plea, and urgent promptings of the spirit so that we could be in a better place financially in a few years. Cause if we stayed here, nothing would change but the amount of the debt. I know that because I was willing to make such huge sacrifices, doors opend up for us to help us in our decisions.
I was trying to figure out when I could bring up my newly understood answers to my prayers with my husband without being totally shot down and then loosing my mind because I really didn't know what to do if he said no. So, with a huge prayer in my heart, we had a really good conversation about how I had felt, what I had felt and the sacrifices I was willing to make in order to better our family right now. I was totally crying and a wreak but there was no way for me to contain my composure because I felt so strongly about this and needed him to truly understand the seriousness of our situation.
Well, he understood. (Thanks Heavens) And that night, we made the decision we were going to move somewhere to get out of debt and live a better life. We though we needed to stay here in Vegas because it felt right.
I sent out a mass email to our family members (thanks for understanding) telling them of our news and to please keep us in their prayers because we hadn't found a place but were looking very hard at rental homes and apartments. I will tell you, a couple of them felt really right when we walked in. We wanted to make sure we were moving in the right direction and with the Lords blessing.
After some temple attendance and lots of prayers we decided to take up my mom and dad on their offer of letting us use their new house in Cedar City, Ut. They will be in Wyoming for a few years helping my brothers with their busniess and so their house in Enoch, (actually a subarb of Cedar), will be empty. Once we made that commitment and let the man upstairs know what we were going to do, we felt an almost immeduate sence of relief. I know without a shadow of a doubt that we need to be up there, and here:-) Tyler will be commuting to Vegas for work, cause the money he makes here, is not even comparable to what they make in Utah. I know that I really depend on him to help me with the kids and he lets me have my "ME" time. So it will be a great sacrifice on my part to be without him for the week days, but I know that we will be blessed because of our effort to follow HIS counsel and get out of debt.
I can also testify that this is the right move for us because, the adversary has REALLY been working hard on us this past week and a half. So we feel like we are going in the right direction, cause why else would Satan try so hard, and so often, when we haven't felt his presence much at all in the past.
So, for the past two weeks I have been packing and PURGING our stuff like crazy. We are having a HUGE, and I mean HUGE yard sale THIS SATURDAY the 9th starting at 6am. Please come and see if there is anything you like.
Thank you to all for your support over the past few weeks. It has been very appreciated.
I will be sending out a mass email with our new address and phone number within the next few weeks, if you would like one and aren't sure if I have your email or not, leave a comment and I will comment back to you with my email.
The water towers are there incase of a fire because the water pressure isn't very good at the top of the buildings so they have those on the top to help out the upper floors in an emergency.
Part of the Manhattan coastline over my shoulder.
More Manhattan
The colgate sign is actually on the Jersey coast line.
If you ever go to NY and want to see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island but don't want to pay to go directly to the islands; the Staten Island Ferry is FREE 24-7. Plus, is takes you right past the famouse landmarks.
Don't these police boats look fierce:-)
Jdub's huge place.
Pretty sure that's either the Empire State Building or the Chrysler Building with the spire behind NYU's medical center. Can't remember now.
One of the many entrances to Long Island.
