Big Trucks Will Grow Your Faith

Well, we made it! We are in our new apartment, which I was pleasantly surprised with to be honest. I had set myself up to expect the worst, never having seen the place prior to signing the lease, but it's going to work out great.

Okay, so the title of this post....I have to give kudos to Jarrod for driving the truck up here. Lessons learned: when towing a car, lefts are easier than right. the repetitious bangs you hear (despite the nagging feeling) do not indicate that the towed car is falling away. semis are deadly and Atlanta is not nearly as scary as middle of no-where Tennessee. We stayed on the phone with each other for as much of the journey as possible.. but there were many occasions where Jarrod would yell out, "hill! gotta go!". The truck would slow down from 60-65 to 50... sometimes 40... and on some of the mountains 35. I have new compassion for truck drivers on inclines, but only then. There were many instances where a big semi would drive by on the downhills of the mountains, and all I could do was pray as I saw the moving truck sway from edge to edge of the lane forced by the wind current of the semi.

In spite of all the drama, we made it! Thank you all so much for your prayers, they carried us.

The Lord provides: we pulled up and found our way to the office to sign paperwork, then realizing the checkbook had not been set aside to pay for said apartment. oops! The manager was so kind and took our word, gave us the keys and when we got back to the apartment for the "tour", the cousins showed up! Thank you thank you thank you! God also sent us new friends from two local churches to unload. Total of 10 people, took us only an hour and a half to unload the truck and put everything at least in the right room! Ginnie Lou, Joy, Brooke and I were mighty women and set up the beds and reattached mirrors; quite the accomplishment. All in all, we felt so blessed by our welcoming crew. Thank you all again!

So we're here in our new home; it doesn't quite feel like home, but it will. Missing friends and family, but Jarrod and I are so excited to be where we know God has called us.