WOW, hiii. I kind of fell off the wagon for a bit there. I’m sorry about that, hopefully the seatbelt stays fastened this time.

Is my life today what I pictured a year ago? That’s a big fat colossal NO. I am literally living in Florida. Travis and I have been here since October fifth of this year so roughly two and a half months.

Travis was in Texas for two weeks like six months ago for the military and got offered the position here. We legit didn’t have orders in hand to move here until ONE week before we moved.

THEN after driving sixteen hours from Ohio with my sweet and wonderful parents driving our Uhaul truck and us driving our truck, towing our car- we pull up to a horrible part of Florida. Where there are gun shootings, people tweaking out in the front lawn and staring at us over the fence. The house we chose online was a complete fraud scam. It was in a terrible area, hand and foot prints on the front door like someone was trying to beat the door in. The house looked nothing like the photos online.

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Let me rewind a second here..for about three months before we moved I was trying my hardest to control everything, thus you guessed it, having absolute mental breakdowns everyday because news flash, we can’t control our lives!

While going through this stress, I felt the urge to walk up to three different women within like three separate days. Each interaction God was brought up. One woman was even a missionary that asked to pray over me in the middle of the gym and when I tell you that I felt the holy spirit flow through my body and I about cried right there. – SO that was when I threw up my hands and gave it all to God. I literally would laugh everytime something went wrong or wasn’t figured out. It was incredibly freeing. Even when we pulled up to that house, I laughed and maybe cried a little.. but mostly laughed.

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Fast forward – back to the Florida timeline..We were incredibly blessed to have found an apartment within a day. The lady actually had a fraud story like ours about moving here, so she really helped us out. We didn’t want to have to get a storage unit, rent a Uhaul all over again and live in a hotel until we found a place. So God really had our backs.

Now October tenth-ish, we are settling into our apartment and I’m still feeling like something is missing. I felt God but hadn’t fully tried to have a relationship with him yet. At the gym I asked this random woman to spot me on bench and she had a cross necklace on. I complimented her necklace and I told her about me wanting a relationship with God, how I’m trying to work on it. Then boom, would you guess it, she actually sings in her churches worship team. She invites me to her church and I come that day. I have met such wonderful humans here. We have found our home church.

A friend I made, Diane, actually baptized my husband and I two weekends ago in her pool.

So NO I did not know I was going to be living in Florida a year ago, or giving my life to the Lord.

But I am so so happy I did.