update update update :)

update from work. Last week I got news that I would be placed at the 3rd level of part time. This put Teddy and I in a bind because that cut $400/m out of our budget because of that. BRUTAL. I was frustrated, confused, but said ok. This means I need another job ASAP because this change in my salary was happening June 25th. Plus--this meant less hours towards Crusade. Which makes me sad. We were planning on me working at least 29 hrs a week. I'm not sure what the hours will look like, but I pray that the team will adjust well to it. Especially if Misty (our girl director) isn't here. It will be different having just 2 full time girls...so I will have to learn how to say No even more...

So that brings me to another huge thing. June 5th teddy and I went over to Calder & Ceri's house to have dinner with them and hang out. Well it turns out that they had just got done listening to this presentation about this new company and how they could be business owners. So they started explaining it a little to us & it got us VERY interested. (this was PRE crusade news) So the news came from Crusade on Wednesday June 9th..and that week Calder invited us over Friday night to listen to the presentation from one of the head guys. So we did just that. So after spending the weekend praying about it & talking about everything with Calder & Ceri we said yes to this new business & are technically Independent business owners. :) WHAT? Us business owners? Indeed. We felt that it came at perfect timing because it is very much something I can do part time. So we bought in on Monday, ordered some products on Wednesday and going to press hard after we get home from vacay this next week. It's hard to explain..but It's called Genesis Pure. You can not only take products that do WONDERS to your insides/health..but you can get paid doing it just by getting people to join the business too. You don't have to deliver anything at all. It might sound similar to like mary kay or amway but the set up of the company is different and much more beneficial for us. I can't wait to see what this product will do for us...I will let you know!!! We definitely felt more at ease because C&C were doing this ahead of us...and Calder is a REALLY good businessman. I mean he just invented his own product & now distributing it all over the nation. He doesn't have time for ANOTHER thing...but he was so SOLD on this layout of a company that they decided to do it. Plus, Ceri is sick with lots of things---and these products have done some CRAZY healing things with people...from everyday sickness to serious sickness. So they wanted to give at least the products a try. So I trust him & his thoughts behind all this.

Support is coming in slowly but surely. I'm right at 42%--no not all in hand...but we all know that I count everything...makes me feel better. I just need to get checks in hand for sure by August 1st. This support run has also been BRUTAL. Even tonight I had a person who gave A LOT the past two years cut down to a one time gift of $300...basically $25 a month. I've lots many 100/m people. I'm praising God Im not needing to raise the amount I normally do...I'm sure it could come in, just take a lot a lot a lot more work & new appointments. I feel comfortable sitting at 42% right now...No I probably won't be done by July 1st--which I would've liked...but its ok. It will freakin get done!

I found out today that one of my best friends (Matt Colbert) from junior high & highschool killed himself last night on his families front porch. He had some serious mental issues (paranoia, bi-polar, and schizoid) towards the very end of high school and these past years. The family was coming home around 4pm and saw him on the front porch with a gun. They drove away to another location and called the police. The police showed up and tried talking him out of it for an hour...and then he just killed himself. SO SAD. Tonight I had a mix of emotions. I did cry after listening to one of Meredith Andrews songs called Your Not Alone. I just kept thinking if only he could've listened to that song. I'm honestly unsure if he is a believer. I know the last time I talked to him he has some crazy views/thoughts about God. I truly think that his views were highly affected by his mental state. Teddy & I have been praying that he was a believer at heart before all this mess started happening. And that God showed him grace & let him in heaven. I just have no idea. I even started thinking about this idea of the "elected" from Ephesians 1..and all over the Bible. I got mad for a period tonight as to why God didn't choose Matt. I was talking to Kim about it & she mentioned this..."well brett has explained it to me in a way that made me understand a little better...that although they may not be "elected" it is only because he already knew they would not choose Him...he doesn't NOT offer people the choice" That is an interesting way to think about it & I'm chewing on it. It brings me some peace strangely enough. Anyways--you can be praying for his family & friends. I'm sad I will probably not be in town for the funeral. It's definitely a funeral I would attend if I was in town.

We leave tomorrow morning for our family reunion. We are really excited about it!

oh and we got news this week that teddy will be making the switch to the A shift of work (7am-3pm). We are excited for this change & that he will be home every night now. I really didn't mind him working late night shift. But we will really enjoy him getting off after 3pm every day & it will only be mon-friday! :)

hope this was fun for you to read. Whoever "you" are.

-Kells