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2018 and Another Go!
8 years ago
Feb 19, 2005
Post By: Dave
Mom and Dad's doings
Well, this week with another bank's turndown for financing, we have decided to be content with the great job that Dad already has. Great income, vacations and benefits and minimal worries! The banker was really nice about it but one of the problems is that we are so highly leveraged (banker-speak for have a lot of debt) that if anything did not go according to plan or better we would be dead in the water. Lesson for all of you...debt really limits you! We are doing alright with it and made our final plans to go to Japan in April. Not a bad consolation prize!
We have two other financing organizations that would finance us when I get a job. Who knows when that will happen...and I'm not sure it would be wise for us to do even then.
We went to see the Aviator tonight...good movie! He was one weird guy. We are going down to Sacramento tomorrow afternoon for Paul Wecker's 50th birthday returning on Sunday morning. We got really cheap tickets so we decided to do it. We'll also get to see Gramma while we are there which makes her really happy.
Anyhow...I'd better get to bed.
We love you all,
Mom and Dad (Dad's not writing but his heart is in this!)
Mom is correct. My heart is in this and we both feel we have followed the direction that we have prayed for. We have been given many opportunities to back out of this issue and feel that if we keep "kicking against the pricks", we may ge what we don't want. Security is nice. Lack of worry is nice. I think we'll follow the direction and advice given and continue in our current employ.
As to the Chicken Soup thing, sorry I didn't at least give you a brief. This is the story of Harold Jeters, my black biology teacher in high school who basically kicked me in the backside and told me to get an application for BYU on his desk so he could watch me fill it out (with his assistance). He knew I was LDS and was shocked at the thought of me going off to the local junior college in Sacramento. "You're a mormon, aren't you?" Yes, sir. "Well then, you're not going to American River J.C., you're going to BYU." "So, you get an application in here and I'll help you fill it out". "You're going to BYU".
That is my brief. If it is published, you can read the whole story...at least the part I was able to remember, submit and not have edited out....if it is selected in the final book. L/ Dad