Prayers Please

We need to move! We are number 26 on the list but it just isnt going fast enough. Matt is exhausted! Between work and Pt and driving 30 minutes to get to and from work, he is almost never home. Its starting to catch up with him. He never gets a day off. Even on the days he doesnt work (including the weekend) he still has to do Pt. There is seriously not a day in the week where he gets the whole day off. I know moving wont fix it all, but it would atleast make it where he doesnt have to leave an hour early for work.

And im going bored out of my mind. I want to get a job, which i cant do until we move because right now matt has the car all the time. When we move, we will be close enough for me to take matt to work so i can finally get a job.

Also, they screwed up matts leave days. He should have 10 days but they messed up the paperwork and they have him negative days right now. People keep saying they will get it fixed but its just not happening. It would be nice if he could take a day off!

So please pray that they get all of this stuff fixed...and please pray for matt.

Busy...

Things have been BUSY around here. Matt is always working or doing PT. When he does finally make it home, we use that time to catch up on sleep. I was never one to wake up early (or even before noon) yet here it is, 6am and ive been up since 4:30.

Our friend Ron, who we know from highschool, is deploying to iraq today. We got to spend some time with him last night and say goodbye. Please keep him and the rest of his unit and their famalies in your prayers.

For those of you following the housing list, we are number 31. We havent moved on the list in the last 2 weeks and it is starting to get old! We have been on the list since May 1st. Im not looking foward to the actual moving part. We accumualte more stuff every day and for some reason the government isnt assisting us with our move (they move your stuff for you most of the time, but not this time! why? who knows...) So we have to deal with the issue of finding a vehicle big enough to move all of our stuff, which isnt easy because you have to be 21 to rent a UHAUL.

A new way to look at a deck of cards

It was quiet that day, the guns and the mortars, and land mines for some reason hadn't been heard.

The young soldier knew it was Sunday, the holiest day of the week.

As he was sitting there, he got out an old deck of cards and laid them out across his bunk

.Just then an army sergeant came in and said, 'Why aren't you w ith the rest of the platoon?'

The soldier replied, 'I thought I would stay behind and spend some time with the Lord.'

The sergeant said, 'Looks to me like you're going to play cards.'

The soldier said, 'No, sir.You see, since we are not allowed to have Bibles or other spiritual books in this country, I've decided to talk to the Lord by studying this deck of cards.'

The sergeant asked in disbelief, 'How will you do that?'

'You see the Ace, Sergeant? It reminds me that there is only one God.

The Two represents the two parts of the Bible, Old and New Testaments

The Three represents the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost.

The Four stands for the Four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

The Five is for the five virgins there were ten but only five of them were glorified.

The Six is for the six days it took God to create the Heavens and Earth.

The Seven is for the day God rested after making His Creation.

The Eight is for the family of Noah and his wife, their three sons and their wives -- the eight people God spared from the flood that destroyed the Earth.

The Nine is for the lepers that Jesus cle ansed of leprosy He cleansed ten, but nine never thanked Him.

The Ten represents the Ten Commandments that God handed down to Moses on tablets made of stone.

The Jack is a reminder of Satan, one of God's first angels, but he got kicked out of heaven for his sly and wicked ways and is now the joker of eternal hell.

The Queen stands for the Virgin Mary.

The King stands for Jesus, for he is the King of all kings.

When I count the dots on all the cards, I come up with 365 total, one for every day of the year.

There are a total of 52 cards in a deck; each is a week - 52 weeks in a year.

The four suits represent the four seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.

Each suit has thirteen cards -- there are exactly thirteen weeks in a quarter.

So when I want to talk to God and thank Him, I just pull out this old deck of cards and they remind me of all that I have to be thankful for.'

The sergeant just stood there.After a minute, with tears in his eyes and pain in his heart, he said, 'Soldier, can I borrow that deck of cards?'

please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our servicemen and women all around the world. Of all the gifts you could give a Soldier, prayer is the very best one.

PT sucks

Matt failed his PT test, which means he has to do PT twice a day now. Which wouldnt be such a big deal if he could do it on the base we live on, but he has to drive 45 minutes there and 45 minutes back 2 times a day and he does PT for 2 hours each time. So this takes almost 6 hours out of his day. And on days he works he has to go to work almost 4 hours early to do
PT. That means he is gone for 16-17 hours on the days he works and 6 hours on the days he doesnt work. It also puts him driving almost 600 miles a week. Yeah i know, thats alot of math.

We are number 32 on the housing list and i am praying that the list moves along pretty fast. Especially since Matt will be using 2 tanks of gas a week to get back and forth to work and PT. A bunch of people deploy in a few weeks and we are hoping some houses open then up then because alot of those wives will move back home when their husbands deploy.

And congratualtions to my friend Valerie who just found out she is pregnant with her second child!