We've almost been living in Cali a year! I can't believe time has gone so fast. It also means our lease is up and we've been toying with the idea of moving to a two bedroom especially since our renewal of our lease came in for $108 more a month which is almost a 9% increase in our rent!
So we have some options:
Since our rent is going up soo much anyway we thought we'd look into paying just a little more a month at our current complex and get a two bedroom place. Unfortunately our rent went up around the board at our complex and two bedrooms are a lot more a month than they used to be. So, if we give up everything extra including trips to Utah, eating out, eating any meat, all entertainment and extraneous driving we might be able to afford a two bedroom along with using up all of our savings.
So, I started to look into other apartment complexes and their prices would at least let me buy more than just pasta roni for the next year but I just wasn't feeling good about moving. Moving didn't sound so rough when it was just another building that I could potentially walk to but to move across town sounded way harder. Plus, we are going to Utah for a wedding the weekend after we would move. YIKES!
And then I remembered that this is the way God leads me. We'd been praying guidance in whether or not to move and God said sure whatever you like. I start looking into doing things and rent gets more expensive, moving seems impossibly hard, and staying gets remarkably less expensive after we talk to the property manager about our options.
So why even tell us do whatever we like and then give me stupor of thought over the options you don't want me to choose? There is only one option left and it feels great. I mean I didn't want it and I was the instigator of thinking about moving to a two bedroom in the first place. But renewing this lease on this apartment just feels so great. Does that make any sense? I should be unhappy that I'm not getting what I wanted and yet I have such peace about the choice we've made. I love the gospel and the gift of the spirit
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Figuring it out all in the end---a good feeling.
Even if we go no where I think the Lord leads us.
It's SO true babe! a. I can't believe it's been that long, and b. I don't know how anyone makes decisions without the spirit. People are always asking how I could move out here without family or friends and i just think, it's because God said it would be a good thing.
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