These last two months have been a mix of feelings. One is that we know that we are meant to be here, the other is the difficulty we are having finding work, which really surprises me with Gerry. Most of the people tell him he is over qualified or never even bother to respond to his application or resume. Just pure frustration. We pray, fast, ask for more prayers from others and still we are waiting. We know that all things happen in Heavenly Fathers time, but sometimes it is hard to be patient when we have bills creeping in. Due to emergencies, our savings has been wiped out for a while now and we have yet to really start building it back up enough to really make a difference.
The other feeling, wow, it is amazing. First, we know that people in our little branch prayed for us to be here. Second, the school is AMAZING! Our son Dean is doing so well. He loves school again, but even more than he did before he hated it. He loves all his teachers, they are fantastic. Dean is on an IEP (Individualized Education Plan and soon to be Individualized Health Plan, which is new to me). Due to the problems he has, he gets help so he can succeed. The teachers are making such a difference. Dean is capable of good grades and usually has great ones, with the exception of maybe a C or a D. Right now, he is A/B and can make the honor roll if he can keep them up for the last four days of school, should be no hard feat, but we will see. We don't want to tell him due to stress and anxiety, which makes it hard for him to do well. We actually have to argue with him to keep him from going to school way too early, like an hour early! The school system here is 4 in the state and around 700 out of 22,000. Wow, that says something. We could not have asked for better. This just tells us, we needed to be here so that he could finally start succeeding. He even helps out in class, reads aloud, and is participating by being a leader, something we have never seen him succeed at, usually there are problems. I feel so blessed he is getting the help with his education more than Gerry and me pushing for more and better. Now if the rest would just fall into place, life would be grand.
