Feb. Flu bye

I enjoyed reading every ones post. It has been sweet to share with you all. My family has been sick this Feb. So I have not been able to get to church or the Church functions. I truly miss all of my brethren and our meetings. First my little Greg got the flu he ran a fever for five days. My mom kept asking if I was going to call for the elders. My stubborn pride, I kept saying no he was not that sick. But he started getting really bad, so I humbled my heart and called the elders and a few of the brethren. Greg woke up Thursday with no fever and wonted to eat and he really had not eaten since he got sick. I knew God had done that to help increase my faith and teach me to call on him with all things big and small. I have a lot of faith but I also have a lot of pride. God was not done helping me learn to humble myself and call on him. Greg got better but then KC my husband got sick too. I began to pray a lot because when he gets sick it always settles in his chest, because he had ammonia when he was born. It always scares me when he gets sick. God had so much mercy, he was well in less then three days and this was the first time he had been sick all year. That is a miracle from God to began with. He always gets sick a lot every winter because of his weak lungs. Thank you God for protecting him this year. Now my Greg has an eye infections that is really bad. Hopefully God heals him soon.
Some of you know that my Jes got a really bad bloody nose a while back. It was so bad that it took a hour and a half to stop the bleeding and when his nose was bleeding it was flowing so hard that his eye started having blood come out of it. We called the elders and he stayed home he looked anemic after words because he lost so much blood so fast. We thought it was a one time thing then the other day Jes woke up with one before school this one only lasted 45 mins. and I called the elders and brethren right away. Jes kept good color and so I sent him to school. But that night he got another one and when I went to help him blood poured out of his eye it scared him and I a lot. We had an elder come over and lay hands on him. So far he has not gotten another bloody nose. It is very scary when he does get them. You can tell it is not a regular nose bleed it seems to be bleeding from above his nasal cavity. So If you feel to pray thanks so much. The Lord has been sweet to us and healed us quickly. All our faith has been increased including my boys. It is sweet to see God plant faith in their hearts. So that has been our crazy feb. sorry I have not written sooner. Love you all and our prayers are with you all. Love from this Idaho family

All things work to the good for those who serve God

I thought this title really said a lot. I am sorry I have not written sooner, things tend to get very busy around here. But Our Lord has been busy in my families lives as always. As many of you know When I lost my job my husband's brother moved in to help us out so we did not loose our house. The plan was going to be getting a new job and he would live with us until we got back on our feet 6mth or so. Now 2 years later he is going to move out but God knew all about that too. After I go a job I worked there nine months and got laided off. Now out of work again we felt very blessed that he had not moved out yet. I began to really seek God about my job and where he wonted me to work and the type of job I wonted. It took a lot of faith on my part to be patient and wait on God to open the door for the Job I had been praying for. I always have a lot of faith In Gods ability to answer my prayers but, I am not a patient person at all. I know God knows what is best for us and it was a hard trial for my husband and I. I was out of work for 6 weeks. But God really answered all our prayers and I got the job I really wonted. When they called me to come down for an interview I had to pass a test first. I have trouble taking test, so I really had to pray. I have dyslexia witch means I have trouble comprehending things when I read them and I see things back words (was is saw) (p's are b's) so I was worried if I would be able to pass the tests. When I got there I signed in and then one of the brothren's children showed up and it really meant a lot to me because I knew God had caused it to happen. Even though I was nervous I felt at peace because I was not alone anymore. We both passed the test but God had another Job for my friend. Thank you Lord for sending him on that day. My job deals with computers and I have to know a lot about credit and lending laws. Every time I would think I could not do my job that it was to hard the Lord would remind me that I prayed for this job and he gave it to me. And what that meant to me is that if God gave me my job he would give me the skill and knowledge to be able to do my job. And he has so much so that I got really puffed up with my pride. I thought that I was the one that was good at my job. I started to having trouble at my job. So I began to pray for humility and God helped me to find that spirit of thankfulness and understand that God was the one who helped me to be good at my job and when I started to give him the Glory for my job and all that I was able to do he started to bless my job again. It has been such a sweet trial because I have trouble releasing all things to God and being patient to wait on Gods will in my life. From the begaining of getting this job to, today working at my job God has been really working with me to have that patients and fully relly on him in all things. And the sweetest thing of all is the things the Lord has been teaching me are things I was praying to get better at.

The other thing the Lord did for us was I got our house payment for this month and it had gone up in price by over $80.00 dollars and next month is was suppose to go up even more over $100.00 more. Now we have a fixed morgage so the increase was our home owners carrier. I called an agency I had worked with in the passed to see if they could help us and called my morgage company to see what could be done and they told me if I changed carriers they would recalculate out my house payment for this month and I could pay the smaller amount. Kacey and I really prayed about it and when I got all the paperwork done. My new house payment for this month was $1.50 more than our house payment for all of last year and next month my house payment would go down by $30.00 dollars next month. This is such a blessing sence JJ my husbands brother will be moving out soon.