Blessings

Recently God has blessed us in a huge way! We have been wanting an upright freezer for the garage for a while now, although we haven't had the money to buy one. Well, a few weeks ago we were going to Goodwill to find Scott a pair of jeans. As we were pulling up we saw a pickup with 2 upright freezers heading towards the donation center. We quickly pulled over and ran to the pickup as the donation person at Goodwill was telling them they don't take freezers. Unfortunately, they were trying to donate a yellow refrigerator, not a freezer, and they were keeping the upright freezer. We talked a little, and found that they go to Easthill Church (another great church similar to Good Shepherd in Gresham). We talked about FPU (they also had gone through Financial Peace University), our baby Stanely, their kids, and we gave them our number incase they ended up not needing the freezer.

Well, a couple weeks later Heather got a phone call from the lady simply stating, "Call me about a freezer." We called, and they wanted to GIVE us the freezer! Turns out, they were hoping to use it as a second refrigerator but it was too cold (it was built to freeze things which it did). What a huge blessing, God knew what we needed, and He provided. This was a big answered prayer.

That was blessing number one. Blessing number two was getting the freezer. We have a Toyota Camry, and a VW Jetta. Both are not made for transporting freezers. Once we found that we had a freezer, we had to find a way to transport it. Heather first called her dad, who was more than willing to help us, but he is up in Welches, and the freezer was out past 181st. Then we thought of our friends from Bible study. Matt works in construction and has a pick-up. The problem was that he has night classes most weekdays. Scott called him, and he was more than willing to come out and help!

He was working that day out in SW Portland, so he met Scott and the family with the freezer's house, and Matt was the right person to ask. He had all the equipment and know how. We got it into his truck, he had the straps to tie it down, and we got it back to our house no problem. When we got it home, Scott was going to plug it in, but Matt wanted to look at the wiring. The lady had mentioned that there was a problem with the wire, but she used some electrical tape, and it was working fine. Matt took one look at it and told Scott not to plug it in until it was fixed. The hot, cold, and ground wires were all cut and while some electricity could make it through when held together it was the type of problem that starts those "electrical fires" you hear about on the news. Again, what a blessing that Matt was the one we called, because we would have had no idea that the wires needed to be fixed to avoid a house fire. God is good.

Our three blessings.

1. The refrigerator

2. Matt helping and seeing the electrical problem

3. The day we met the people at Goodwill we also found Scott a $9 pair of brand new Levi Jeans that would cost $50 retail.

Wow.