Life as I know it

Sorry to update the blog for a third time in one day, but I'm feeling the words flowing from my finger tips!  I'm so psyched and excited, I just had to get it all out!  First and foremost, I am so excited about our new church.  We have FOUND a church home here in Sacramento!  And bonus:  it's closer than any church we've ever attended :D  The name of it is Verity Baptist Church.  Yep, Baptist.  Why is this surprising?  I mean, I grew up Baptist.  I attended the First Baptist Church of Woodstock for my entire childhood, and then went when it was ... ahem, convenient as an adult.  It's an awesome church.
http://www.fbcw.org/

My husband, however, grew up Pentecostal.  Long hair, skirts, speaking in tongues and all.  He's no bible scholar, but he has definite ideas of what is Right and what is Wrong, and I don't, so during our 14 year marriage, we've gone to a wide variety of churches, but never really finding a church home until we found Truthway, about 2 years ago.  Our church relationship began when David struck up a deep and quick friendship with the pastor, and it helped that the pastor is a Really Good Pastor.  So, for 2 years, we faithfully did not miss a single Sunday unless we were on vacation.  Then the pastor decided to move around, Truthway was no more, and the rest of that is a long story.  And of course, we moved here to Sac.

David has always enjoyed movies and videos about the End Times.  The book of Revelations and all that.  He found a Youtube movie called After the Tribulation that just blew. his. mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvv2HPYdhMA

This movie led us to Verity Baptist Church and pastor Roger Jimenez.  Let me tell ya ... I have learned more in 2 days than I have in 34 years.  It's amazing.  HE is amazing.  He IS a bible scholar; I think Pastor Jimenez has the bible memorized, no joke.  The message is delivered STRICTLY from the bible.  Every single statement he makes is backed up fully by the bible, with multiple scriptures to illustrate his points.  Amazing, I've literally never met a pastor like him.  The service is a full hour of the Word, and I actually enjoy and follow every second of it.  So praise God!  I'm so excited to have this to look forward to, and I'm really enjoying learning more/understanding the Bible.

Second:  I GOT A JOB!!!  And my husband has a 2nd interview tomorrow for a job himself, so happy!!  As y'all know, I was going from an outside, teaching position to an inside, office position.  It has been SO hard finding something.  Every single interview, not even exaggerating, has had a minimum of 14 other applicants there as well, resumes in hand.  And they're all so much more qualified than myself; let's face it, I just don't have inside office experience.  In fact, the position I got was a long process to get there.  It began in a room with 13 other applicants (14 of us in the room).  The office manager spoke to us as a group, the doctor spoke to us as a group, then the office manager came back in with paper and pen and quizzed us on the doctor's details.  5 questions.  We were all dumbfounded, I can promise you that!  I must have gotten all the questions right though, because 8 people were dismissed right away, BOOM!  The 6 of us that remained were ushered into the back where we had a 1 on 1 interview with the Dr. and OM.  She informed me there was another round of group interviews that evening, then she would contact me if she wanted anything else.  About a week later, she asked me in for a "working" interview, where I literally worked 8 hours, being taught the job.  I felt ok about it, but I knew I had worked a little slow, just to make sure I didn't make any mistakes.  Another week later, I got a call to come in for a SECOND interview, which was this past Friday.  Again, I worked all day, this time feeling like I really rocked it.  Today, I got the call that she's offering me the position.  PHEW!  So happy and excited, glad it finally has happened.  We NEED some income, our finances are stretched so tight right now we can't breathe.  Hindsight being 20/20, we would have spent a LOT less money in the beginning of our time here, but we both TRULY felt like we would have jobs within 2ish weeks.  We had NO idea 3 months later we'd still be sitting here on the couch watching daytime TV.  IF we ever decide to move again, we have certainly learned a lesson!

So, please have prayers that my husband lands this job tomorrow; it literally is right across the street from our apartment, he could walk there if he wanted to.  The pay is good, the job is good, he really wants it.  Please pray I pick up quickly at my new job.  Even though I did well Friday, I still have a LOT to learn, new people to get to know, and patients to get to know ... it's going to be tough, but I know I'm up to the challenge.  God is good, I feel like we're slowly figuring out our new life, and things are progressing forward:)