God's promise He would not be late!

As most of you probably know, we have a house we needed to sell in order to leave for missions.  If the house hadn't sold by January, we were going to move back to Louisiana and I would find work to make house payments till it sold.

I remember during our intake training in October the readings at Mass one day were from Habakkuk chapter 2, verse 3.  The last phrase reads as this: "If it delays, wait for it, it will surely come, it will not be late."  That phrase really made an impression and I knew the Holy Spirit was telling me that He would not be late in selling our house so we could go on Mission starting in January.

As the Lord would have it, we finished training December 11th and headed back to Hastings for a Holiday break with family.  Since discovering we would be headed to Mexico and not flying overseas we had been starting to look for a different (larger) vehicle than our Hyundai Sonata.  I found on Sid Dillon's website this sweet 1996 Ford Conversion Van!

It took some persuading, but I finally convinced Andrea this was the vehicle God had in mind for us.  Plenty of room, incredibly comfortable, durable, relatively low miles.  It was like a hand wrapped gift from the Lord!  We purchased the Van and were just about set to go....

We went into Christmas all ready to go as soon as our house sold....waiting and waiting.  As January 1st drew nearer and nearer we watched as our hope of leaving for Mexico with the rest of our team started to fade away.  Then on Thursday the 26th, we got a call.  A donor asked us how the house selling was going and I told him that I had a couple offers but they were pretty low.  To which he replies, "we have been praying about it, and we have $60,000 we want to give you to sell your house, so when you are dealing with offers, know that you have that available to cover any difference from what you need."  We were speechless.  God is so good!  On Sunday, December the 29th, we signed an offer.  And started packing everything as fast as we could to leave on Jan 1 for Houston, TX.  The rest of our team was meeting to head to Mexico that night!

God told us He would not be late and He sure wasn't!  

We moved into our new home Jan. 2nd.  I took a few more pictures for those of you who are interested. 

We are stationed here with one other family, the Martin's.  If you would like to read their story click here

We are also with three single ladies: Madison Dold (info), Abi Eckstine (info), Megan Behrens (info)

In other exciting new we were featured in the Southern Nebraska Register.  I have linked the article here

We were also interviewed for the Spirit Mornings program on Spirit Catholic Radio.  The interview will air on Tuesday Jan. 14th at about 8:30 A.M. It will also be available via podcast from their website after the air date.  I linked the page here

God has us on an incredible adventure and I can't wait to share it with you all!

God Bless!

In Christ, 

Dave