First, my temp position with BlackBox resale came to an end on November 2nd so we were once again left with only one income. But as always, we are amazed at God's faithfulness in these situations. Two weeks, to the day, later I started a job working in the Technology Finance Department at Thomson Reuters. This too is just a temp job but I get to make my own hours and the pay is excellent.
There is a position in the Accounting Office at Northwestern College which has opened up and I have applied for. From everything we can tell, it would be perfect. We would both work at Northwestern which would have many benefits both financially and personally. So that's something to pray about. Northwestern is notorious for being slow in their hiring process but it's an exciting opportunity on the horizon.
Katie is still working for Student Development at Northwestern and loving it. It seems like every day she tells me that she's been given more responsibilities which is great to give her more things to work on to pass the time.
I realized that we haven't put any pictures of our newly updated, finished basement. We're adding the final touches to the stair landing this weekend and then maybe we'll remember to get some pictures up here.
It seems like every weekend we become more involved in our church. As Katie said in her last post we started a couple's small group with some friends and some new couples from Eagle Brook (who have quickly become friends also). That has been great for all of us. Having other couples to talk with and having friends who are in the same stage of life as us has been great. Additionally, Eagle Brook has decided to open two new campuses (in Blane and Woodbury) over the next three years and that is very exciting for everyone involved.
One of our funniest and maybe most stressful stories from our house happened in early October. As the weather started to get colder we decided it was finally time to turn on our furnace for the winter. So I went and lit the pilot light and tried to get the furnace to light. After several days of fiddling and trying I still couldn't get it to light. Eventually we bit the bullet and called a furnace repair guy to come look at it. After several hours, many phone calls and a second repair guy they decided that they could fix it now and probably be back several times through the winter to keep fixing it since it was so old or we could get a new furnace. We decided that because of tax rebates and other things, now was as good a time as any to get a new furnace installed, especially since we knew it was something we needed to so sometime soon anyway. So the day comes to install the new furnace, the guys spend just under 8 hours removing the old one and installing the new one and it comes time to turn it on for the first time. It won't light. Sounds like the same issue the old furnace was having. They replace the thermostat. It still won't light. Eventually they decide the only option left is to re-run the wiring from the thermostat to the furnace. When they're running the new wires they find the problem. As it turns out the wire from our thermostat to the furnace accidently got cut when we were remodeling the basement. The old furnace would have worked just fine!! Oh well, we decided that was God's way of getting us a new furnace before our old one broke in February and we had to get it replaced then. There are two morals to this story. If you ever do remodeling, DO NOT remove wires unless you are absoutley sure where they come from and where they go to. Second, if your furnace isn't working, check the wiring!
Well that probably covers most of our life changes for the past month or so. Hopefully we'll get those basement pictures up soon.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Phil
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