Part 3

Part 3... So after leaving that house we drove around to a few more places that didn't work out and gave up. We pulled into a Wendy's parking lot and cried out to the Lord in prayer asking for some direction. We also had to repent of our attitudes because honestly they were not honoring to the Lord at all. We had started arguing with each other and just being negative. We knew God had led us here, but we didn't know what to do next.

After we finished praying, we just sat there in silence for a bit. It was then that we remembered that our neighbor in N.C. had given us her cousin's phone number and told us that he lived in the same city. This alone was God given because we had only talked to this neighbor a handful of times the whole time we had lived there. Mike called his number and left a message. He must have sounded desperate because that is exactly how we felt! He told him our situation and asked for any help that he could offer. At that point, all we wanted to do was stop looking for a bit. So we just went back to the hotel where we were staying. Finally, the neighbor's cousin  (we will call him Scott) called us back. Scott said that he would be glad to help us look for some places near the seminary and gave us his address to pick him up.

So after we picked Scott up, we drove around a bit. He began to tell us about his life. He had attended the same seminary as Mike was planning on attending in the 80s. He and his wife had previously been on the mission field in South America and were now back in the U.S. permanently. Scott began telling us that what we were doing was not crazy (which was EXACTLY what I needed to hear). He told us stories of Christians in South America who depended on the Lord and saw Him be faithful to his promises again and again. He and his wife had been in a very similar situation when they moved here- they even had two dogs! Anyway, he showed us several apartment complexes much closer to seminary but none had any available to rent. Then we drove up to one that seemed out of our price range for sure. I said no, but Mike said "Let's just see". Can you tell who the optimist is out of the two of us? :) So he walked in to talk with the manager. She told him that there was only one available. It was a two bedroom (just what we had hoped for) and they had a special deal going. He walked out and said, " I think this is it". I took a little more convincing, like seeing the inside first. Ha! But in the end we decided to rent it. And we FINALLY had a home! Little did we know what joys and huge challenges we would face while living in that apartment...