God Works in Mysterious Ways

I posted a bunch of photos of our short trip to Pismo Beach/Avila/San Louis Obispo this week.  For those of you not familiar with the area, the three towns are very close together.  Brian and I traveled to San Louis Obispo almost 25 years ago to check out the Cal Poly campus, where Brian would be attending college.  It is a wonderful school for Agricultural Business and Science.  We met with the department head and then looked for an apartment.  I was excited to live right by the beach and have beautiful weather.  Brian also got accepted to the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona., but we were excited to go to Cal Poly because it was Brian's dream to go there.

A few weeks later, Brian told me he felt prompted to go to U of A.  I did not even want to hear it.  Tucson is not a beautiful city.  It looks the opposite of SLO.  (We just found out that everyone in California calls San Louis Obispo "SLO").  Of course I wanted Brian to do what he felt was best, and that is why it upset me!  I wanted him to feel that he was supposed to go to Cal Poly.  It was what he wanted.  I went home and was alone.  I knelt down by the couch and started praying.  I told Heavenly Father all the reasons why I wanted to go to SLO and all the reasons why I did not want to go to U of A.  As I was praying, I suddenly felt okay about Tucson.  I stood up, confident about our next move.  I am grateful for the power of prayer. 

I am grateful that we lived in Tucson.  We had a wonderful church congregation where we made amazing friends who were also attending college.  One of the biggest blessings is that we had the best fertility doctor.  In Vitro Fertilization cost soooo much more in California than in Tucson Arizona.  Amazingly, we enjoyed the nature surrounding Tucson.  We also lived only two hours away from family.  It was a blessing to have family so close, especially when I was pregnant and gave birth to Kendra.  

Life is funny.  We now live in the produce capital of the world.  Brian's career dreams didn't require attending Cal Poly to come true.  We might not live right by the beach, but we are less than two hours away.  It's like going to Christopher Creek in Arizona.  The beach is our new cabin.