Big Changes, and Big Blessings.

We have had another crazy year of unexpected stress and blessings. Cameron was working for Invictus Law where he worked long hard hours cleaning up their books and creating massive spreadsheets for not only Invictus but some other companies they owned. In January he hit his 90 day review and went in asking for a big raise. We were currently making $22K a year less than we were used to. They gave him a $22K a year raise. We were so excited and felt very blessed. We spent a whole Saturday making a new budget with plans to have our van paid off this year and our house in 10. We couldn't wait. Three weeks later they let him go. We never even had a full month pay at his raise.

I was very upset, very confused, and very angry. I couldn't believe this was happening again to us. At the same time I felt calm and peaceful and knew everything would work out, but I just simply did not want to go through it again and have our financial goals put on hold. We had planned to use our tax return to pay off our van. Now we had to live off of it, but I was grateful to have it.

Right away Cameron got interviews, which was better than the last time around. There seemed to be better jobs, but we both just felt like we had to be patient, that it wasn't going to happen when we wanted.

Cameron had a really promising interview with a company called Natures Sunshine. He made it to three interviews. We waited and waited for a phone call and they kept telling us they hadn't decided. During this wait time he received another phone call for an interview with a company called Young Living. He had three interviews with them as well. The waiting almost killed us. Nature Sunshine still hadn't made a decision after 5 agonizing weeks. Young Living told us they would get back to us on a certain day and didn't. It was so frustrating, especially because he felt very strongly that he had the job with Young Living. But Cameron had applied to this job the day after he was let go and it took 2 months for them to even call for a first interview so all we could do was wait.

On Monday May 23rd we thought for sure we would hear something. We waited, we prayed, and 5:00 came and went and we heard nothing. We stopped checking email at that time. It was 6:30 and we were eating dinner, but Cam was upstairs for some reason, probably praying and he came downstairs with a weird look on his face. He grabbed me and said come here. I was worried something was wrong. And he told me that Young Living emailed him an offer letter. I was so shocked, relieved, happy, and grateful. We knelt in pray and offered up our hearts full of gratitude. The money compensation was more than we've ever made. It's located at Thanksgiving Point which is only a 30 minute drive for Cam. He doesn't even have to get on the freeway.

Because we had the job offer it worked out for us to go to California. They didn't want him to start until the 13th so Cam just asked if the 15th would be ok for a start date since we would be on vacation. They were fine with it. He started yesterday and came home so excited. Young Living sells essential oils and other healthy items. He came home with tons of free stuff and told me all about the awesome benefits he has. They have a gym he can workout out for free, he gets free golfing at Thanksgiving Point. They have a matching 401K plan, tons of vacation, free products, a chance to earn bonuses, and an opportunity to work with a bunch of great people and be a part of a wonderful team. Cameron will be in charge of the Mexico office and will get to travel there occasionally. He will also be in charge of budgeting for the whole company which he will be very good at.

It's weird to not have him home with me since in the last year he was unemployed for 10 months, but I'm so grateful we found this job. I know it's because of faith, prayers, and a loving Heavenly Father that we have this miracle and I'm very grateful for all I learned through this trial.