Many Blessings

The car pretty much died over the weekend. I'm not entirely sure what all was wrong with it but the hydrolics needed to be replaced, and I think the axle needed to be replaced. The symptoms we perceived were like the clutch was stuck in or something and it would randomly jerk backward even though you had it in first gear, or it would randomly jerk forward... and just lots of jerking in general. It also was making yucky sounds and it sometimes just didn't want to switch gears at all! Very problematic. So Michael took it into the shop on Saturday and that's where it's been ever since. We got a ride to church on Sunday with an old friend of Michael's who happens to be in our ward. And we've been biking to school every day. Michael has work at 4am until 7am and which isn't enough time for him to come back home and then leave again in order for us both to get to class on time at 7:45. And I decided it would be kind of weird for me to stay home when he left and then spend the morning all alone and bike my way to school all alone. So I opted to get up early and go with him to work at the morning...

So we've been leaving at about 3:40am. Once there he clocks into work, and I've just found a little bench to park myself on. It gives me time to get some homework and studying in and it places me in an environment with less distractions which has been nice. The only down sides have been that it's been colder this week... and biking at 3:40 in the morning doesn't help! So we've had to bundle up a ton in order to not freeze during our bike ride. And it also means taking more time to get anywhere. And it's limited our grocery shopping as you might imagine, ha.

This week has definitely allowed us to be more aware of the blessing that having a car really is. In a way it's been kind of nice biking to school because it makes you feel more active. And maybe we should still bike to school every now and then. But at the same time it really is just so nice to have a car. We got the car back today. And I found out yesterday that there's a girl at my work who lives just beyond our apartment complex a ways, and that she walks to and from work! Which is just crazy. So I told her when we get our car back that we'd give her a ride home from work every day. So now we can even use our car to bless the life of someone else! Anyway, that's life for now. I get to take a test in the testing center after I get home from work today. I meant to do it earlier but then I realized I had forgotten to bring my Icard, which meant I wouldn't be able to get in the testing center. So it's a good thing the testing center is open until 10pm tonight. But it's just a psychology test, so it shouldn't take me too long.

Have a good day everyone! Lots of love!