The trials that help us grow.

We've inherited two major problems from UT. When Mike had the construction company, he and Dave accepted to build two $500K+ homes for an investor. Someone whom they had done a bit of business with. Knowing that she was shady, not listening to me at all and being the happy go lucky guy that he is, Mike chose to sign a personal guarantee on those homes without really considering their consequences. Well a year and a half later they are pretty much ours. Mike has been supporting the loan payments all by himself for the last 4 months and now we're trying to get the homes done in order to rent them out.

We have three weeks until the homes need to be done and so Mike asked if I wanted to go over there and try to get them done with Dave and Chase. So last week we sold Mike's truck(another miracle and blessing sent by our Heavenly Father), and drove to UT where I stayed with the kids to get going on the homes. I think we will need all 3 weeks we have to finish those homes. On Tuesday I went to visit a friend who will be making Bella's blessing dress and got in a car accident leaving her house. A 60 year old lady hit me while I was stopped waiting for traffic to clear before I could turn. Two and a half hours later, the woman was arrested on a DUI for prescription drugs and her car towed. Luckily for me, she only swiped my bumper which will have to be replaced but it won't be too big of a deal. I felt so lucky that nothing happened to us physically, it could have been a lot worse. Especially because since she was coming from my left and Bella sits right behind me she could have T boned us. Once again, another angel was looking over us!

On Wednesday night as I was pooped out and ready to go to sleep, I remembered that I had my immigration appointment back in ABQ on friday at 8am. Thank goodness someone up there reminded me. I was able to pack everything and leave early on Thursday morning for a long 11 hour drive back home. The appointment went very smoothly and now I have to study for the citizenship test. Also, it's so good to be back at home spending a bit of time with my hubby. Now I get to go back to UT tomorrow(Monday) to try and finish out these homes. Poor Mike has been so stressed out because of them. I was thinking about the huge trial we are going through and thinking that the Lord has promised that blessings come after our trials.

For me the trial has been to get a calling that I so didn't want. To be in primary to me is the last thing I want to do, especially with a newborn baby. But I have been asking the Lord's help in order to do a better job at teaching little kids and juggle my newborn while I'm in there. Mike just got a calling to teach sunday school to the teenagers of our ward. I feel like we are being bombarded from every angle, but today in church I've been really feeling like we can pull through and be successful at our callings and at overcoming our trials. If the Lord didn't think we could make it, he wouldn't be allowing us to go through it all. Elder Maxwell's thoughts of trials, that pull on our heart strings in orde for us to grow, have been with me too. In the end, we are going to come out on top and very blessed for taking the road less travelled.

Anyway, that's quick update on the last couple of months at Vee Company.