After we got home from the honeymoon (we used pretty much all of our money on gas to get back to Henderson) we thought we were settled in on Great Oak Circle. I had taken Summer courses at FHU and was getting ready to start the Fall semester. I kept my work study job through the summer as the mailman on campus and had made a connection to a job in Pensacola for Kaycee. It sounded like a cool job but we weren’t completely sure about it. I still had a couple of semesters left before I would graduate from FHU.
We decided to go to Pensacola so Kaycee could interview for the job. Since she is so awesome, they offered her the job that day. Whoah! This meant it was big time decision making time for us. We talked with some of our friends in Pensacola and they told us about the preaching school down there. It seemed like it would be a good fit. Kaycee would have a great job using her hard earned degree and I would enroll at the Northwest Florida School of Biblical Studies (www.nwfsbs.org).
I did some research on their website and saw that classes were to begin in September. We still had a month or so to get everything ready to move. Or so we thought. I was talking to Billy Morris (He served as an elder at the Leonard Street Church of Christ and is pretty much the connection to anything you need in Pensacola) one Monday in early August and he asked if I was going to be there in time to start classes that quarter. I said “Sure, I have until September.”
Mr. Billy is a locksmith and had been at the school doing some work for them that morning and found out that the new quarter started the next Monday. 7 days. 168 hours. 1 week. Are you serious? Ummm Kaycee?!
I had still been working with the Dyer Church of Christ and had told them earlier that we would be moving. We didn’t realize it would be that soon. One of the hardest things I have had to do was to stand in front of that congregation and tell them that we were moving and it was much sooner than we thought.
We had a bigger problem than we originally realized. We didn’t own a lot of stuff but have you ever packed up everything and moved in a week’s time? Plus, we had to go see our families in middle Tennessee. That week went something like this… We called our parents on Monday to tell them we were moving to Florida, drove to middle Tennessee on Tuesday and back to Henderson on Thursday or Friday, packed our house on Saturday morning and drove to Pensacola that evening during Tropical Storm Fay. (This is not exactly how this week went. It was much more hectic that I have described it here. Kaycee can give the correct details of this week.)
Around Mobile, Alabama we were both exhausted. I was driving the Penske truck pulling my car and Kaycee was following behind in her dad’s pickup truck we had been using. We stopped for gas and a guy at the station said we needed to stop for the night. He told us that the Pensacola area was being hit much harder and we would never make it there. Great. I called Mr. Billy and he said it was barely raining there and we would be fine.
We made it on to Pensacola and parked the big truck at his locksmith shop in town. It was late. I don’t remember the time but it was probably around midnight or later. It had been raining on us since we left Henderson that morning. I was tired of driving.
I started class on Monday and Kaycee started her job. Because of some issues at this job and disagreements with the guy in charge, about two weeks later Kaycee left that job. You don’t work a regular job while in preaching school. You raise support before you begin. I had just sent out my support letters at that time. I was in school, Kaycee didn’t have a job, and we had very little money. All we could think about was if we had done the right thing or not.
To be continued...
We decided to go to Pensacola so Kaycee could interview for the job. Since she is so awesome, they offered her the job that day. Whoah! This meant it was big time decision making time for us. We talked with some of our friends in Pensacola and they told us about the preaching school down there. It seemed like it would be a good fit. Kaycee would have a great job using her hard earned degree and I would enroll at the Northwest Florida School of Biblical Studies (www.nwfsbs.org).
I did some research on their website and saw that classes were to begin in September. We still had a month or so to get everything ready to move. Or so we thought. I was talking to Billy Morris (He served as an elder at the Leonard Street Church of Christ and is pretty much the connection to anything you need in Pensacola) one Monday in early August and he asked if I was going to be there in time to start classes that quarter. I said “Sure, I have until September.”
Mr. Billy is a locksmith and had been at the school doing some work for them that morning and found out that the new quarter started the next Monday. 7 days. 168 hours. 1 week. Are you serious? Ummm Kaycee?!
I had still been working with the Dyer Church of Christ and had told them earlier that we would be moving. We didn’t realize it would be that soon. One of the hardest things I have had to do was to stand in front of that congregation and tell them that we were moving and it was much sooner than we thought.
We had a bigger problem than we originally realized. We didn’t own a lot of stuff but have you ever packed up everything and moved in a week’s time? Plus, we had to go see our families in middle Tennessee. That week went something like this… We called our parents on Monday to tell them we were moving to Florida, drove to middle Tennessee on Tuesday and back to Henderson on Thursday or Friday, packed our house on Saturday morning and drove to Pensacola that evening during Tropical Storm Fay. (This is not exactly how this week went. It was much more hectic that I have described it here. Kaycee can give the correct details of this week.)
Around Mobile, Alabama we were both exhausted. I was driving the Penske truck pulling my car and Kaycee was following behind in her dad’s pickup truck we had been using. We stopped for gas and a guy at the station said we needed to stop for the night. He told us that the Pensacola area was being hit much harder and we would never make it there. Great. I called Mr. Billy and he said it was barely raining there and we would be fine.
We made it on to Pensacola and parked the big truck at his locksmith shop in town. It was late. I don’t remember the time but it was probably around midnight or later. It had been raining on us since we left Henderson that morning. I was tired of driving.
I started class on Monday and Kaycee started her job. Because of some issues at this job and disagreements with the guy in charge, about two weeks later Kaycee left that job. You don’t work a regular job while in preaching school. You raise support before you begin. I had just sent out my support letters at that time. I was in school, Kaycee didn’t have a job, and we had very little money. All we could think about was if we had done the right thing or not.
To be continued...