On The Road Again

For six months we lived in the green house with a garage at our disposal.  The only time a car was ever parked there was one time when a leader from another YWAM base came to visit.and needed a place to put her truck for a night.  Other than that, the garage was used as a place to hang a hammock where it wouldn't get wet in the rain. 

Almost every evening Dave took Zane in the garage and they would pray for God to give us a vehicle to fill the garage.  We had felt prompted by the Lord to give away our old car before coming to Guatemala, and although it was inconvenient to have to rely on public transit we never felt right about looking for a car to buy.  Chicken busses are an adventure, but fairly reliable and cheap to travel on, so it usually wasn't a huge deal to live car-free.

I only started to wonder what we were going to do if we didn't get a vehicle once we decided to move to the lake.  Because we will still be part of our YWAM base and will be going back and forth from the lake every 6-8 weeks, it was ominous to imagine the four-five hour trek by bus every time we needed to come to the base.  We continued to pray for a vehicle and held to the belief God would replace the car we gave to Him in California.    

About three months ago some of our coworkers announced that they felt called to go to Japan, and began the difficult process of uprooting their family who has lived in Guatemala for almost ten years so that they could follow God to the other side of the world.  They had two SUVs, so eventually we sent them an email asking for how much they'd be selling them.  They sent back, "we've prayed about it, and we've decided we would like to give you one of them."  

As soon as I had read the message, I burst into tears (as I do when anything really wonderful happens) and ran to tell David the exciting news.  God had found us a new vehicle!  

Fast forward to today: we went and met with a lawyer to transfer the papers into our name.  Tomorrow we are heading up to Lake Atitlán to continue the search for our new home.  God figured the timing of getting our new truck down to the last- and perfect- minute.  Impeccable.  

To be honest, I had almost given up that God was going to answer that prayer, and had almost decided that maybe he would just provide money to buy a car instead of giving us one for free... But He had a surprise waiting just around the corner.

Isn't He amazing?!