My last blog was about what a piece of junk our car is and how I know it's going to just implode some day soon. After Keith and I talked about it for a while, we decided that we should maybe start asking around to see if anyone would be willing to let us borrow their car for the duration of our time here in TX. So as I mentioned, a friend of ours was going to let us use his car, but that was on the condition that he would buy a car he test drove today and decided not to buy...you get it. Well, that same friend is the guy who sends out e mails to the church when someone has a need. So last night I sent him an e mail I composed asking our church body if anyone could let us use their car. He held the email until after his test drive, and then sent it at around 4:30 this afternoon. By 7:00 this evening we had two offers from people in our church insisting on us taking their cars for as long as we need.
One of them, Adam is his name, just bought a new truck and used to drive around this PIMPED out Crowne Victoria that he souped up like crazy. I'm not sure if this is the same car he's offering, but he kept saying, "come over tonight...or whenever, i'll clean it up for your guys, leave the keys in it. come get it whenver, it's just sitting in my garage."
The other is a woman in our church named Whitney who has a large family. She offered us her '98 Ford Expedition. She told me that she and her husband have this car so that people can use it. She gave me this lengthy list of missionaries, a rabbi, and other people in need who have used the car in the past. She insisted that we take it, because it's just sitting in her driveway.
God is so amazing! We didn't really expect such a quick response so we didn't really have time to think about what we were really going to do.
The truth is, we can't really even drive our car for more that 20-30 minutes at a time without it acting funny in some way. The overheating thing is just the most recent. Every time I get in that car, I feel like something terrible is going to happen, or that I'm going to get pulled over or what have you. Despite these car problems, our lives haven't slowed down at all. We have lots of activities going on, not to mention just going out to get out of the house! We have had to make plans according to how much of a risk we wanted to take with the car. It has been such a liability.
So I think we've decided that we're going to "split time" between the two car offers. 3 months to each car so that we don't have one person's car for the entire 6 months. It sounds sort of complicated, but I think it may be the better thing to do. We have to check with our insurance and everything, but I read online that insurance usually goes with the car.
We also found out that the state of TX is doing this thing (as of 2 months ago) that if your car is a 1996 or older (that's us! we've got a 1990) and if we make under a certain amount (i've read 41k-61k) the government will give us a voucher for $3000 to put towards the purchase of a new car that is a 2005 or newer. This would be ideal for us, so we are exploring this too. If ever we bought a car, we may buy it right before we leave and then just tow it behind the U Haul.
Of course these plans are if the Lord wills!
Then, Adam sent us an e mail with this verse:
Romans 12:9-13, " Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor; not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer, contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality."
man...God is so amazing, I can't stop thinking about it.
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