Saturday, April 11, 2009

Please help us pray

Well, yesterday was another interesting day of travel for our family! We left NC around 6:30 and was doing great making time on our way to PA to be with my family for Easter. We were an hour south of Johnstown when we noticed the transmission temperatures were a little too high (210 degrees). (We were also climbing a lot of mountains) so we stopped for a while to let it cool off, then started again. We were almost to the top of a long hill and Jonathan noticed a big cloud of white smoke, so he just shut the truck down (in the middle of the road, we were in the country and there wasn't anywhere to pull over, especially with the 5th wheel on the back). A man stopped and pulled us the rest of the way up the hill and into an abandoned parking lot. Jonathan went back to the 'town' to get some transmission fluid with another guy that stopped to help. It was a whole new trusting experience for me! My sister in law Sarah was with us too, since we were planning to go to IHC in Dayton, Ohio next week and she was on Spring Break. Her, the kids, & I were sitting in the truck alone. Thankfully we were in the country in southern PA where most people are decent and friendly! Anyway, to make a long story short we were able to baby it to Johnstown after he added several quarts of fluid. We don't have reverse or 1st gear, but drive works! =) We're not understanding why this happened. But doing our best to trust God to take care of it all! It's a great test of our faith & trust in God! Basically, we are here no truck, and not sure what to do! So, if you happen to think of this discouraged family, please pray for us! If we were in Texas, this would be 'easy', just drive our 4runner, work more hours, and fix it, but our life is different now and its a challenge!

After that happened though, a lot of people were praying for us and as we kept climbing mountains to get to Johstown, the temps kept dropping instead of getting hotter! That was a big mystery to us, but we knew God was doing that!! He's able to take care of the rest of it too!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good stuff!!