March 2016 I was driving the kids home from school and the spiritual impression of one word came strongly to my mind. "Daybreak." It caught me off guard and I pondered on it for a week or so. Then at the provo city center temple dedication held that month, I had some time to pray about the impression. After asking the Lord some questions, I learned very strongly that we needed to buy a house and we needed to do it as soon as possible.
This seemed a bit crazy. Newell had only had a stable job with enough of an income to even think about buying a house for three months. We had maybe 1-2 thousand in savings and were renting a home that had a lease up in about four months.
Buying a house at this point in our lives, financially, went against everything Dave Ramsey says and I had learned. However, I knew this was what the Lord wanted so we scheduled a time to meet with a broker.
On the way to the broker I was talking to my Dad about this and my concerns when my Dad said, "Well Heavenly Father is a lot smarter than Dave Ramsey." This helped calm my nerves a bit. If my Dad was supporting what I was doing and saying that Heavenly Father must know something Dave Ramsey doesn't, than I could move forward and not worry about it.
As the process to buy a home continued we felt very strongly about Daybreak. Also in one of my prayers I asked the Lord again how soon it needed to be and I received the answer again to buy a home as soon as possible. I also received the impression that "the worth of souls is great in the sight of God." So for whatever reason, I felt the Lord was telling me that this prompting had a lot more to do with his work than the logistics of wise finances.
There were so many logistical hiccups along the way that our broker said he could feel the opposition from the adversary working against this move. (Our broker was a member of our ward.) However, every obstacle we found a way through and in the end we were in a home within a little over four months from my first impression.
We knew the home we moved into was the right house but things were going to get tighter financially that fall after we adopted the boys (the money from the state would decrease significantly.) I knew we could make it work if needed but it would be very difficult without an increase in income. I prayed to the Lord on this concern.
The answer I received while reading the ensign was to double our fast offering. This was just after purchasing the home and money was tight, our savings was empty. But I took the leap and payed the double amount. The very next day, Newell called me to let me know that his boss came to him and said that it was time to push Newell's promotion forward that had been talked about for a few months. He wanted Newell to spend so much time on it so it could happen as soon as possible.
Newell's promotion with the added pay came into effect the same exact month (October) that we started receiving less from the state. It came to almost the exact amount we were loosing from the state check.
