The point of my post is to share some most amazing and blessed news. I am not trying to boast, in fact I feel anything but pride right now and I am in awe of my Heavenly Fathers loves for me and my family. Firstly we actually got the letter back from Thailand regarding an important document needed for us to complete Joes residency and can now proceed with getting submitting the papers for Joes NZ residency. This is such a huge weight off my mind and one that I am so grateful to the Lord for providing us with the letter back from Thailand. It took exactly 1 month from the time we mailed it to the time it was returned to us.
This leads me to my second miracle. The letter and this miracle happened on the same day so needless to say a lot of tears have been shed in thanksgiving to our Heavenly Father. Well it is probably no stranger to anyone that when you have a small family and one person working that you struggle financially. I am so grateful that I get to stay home with my children but it has not been easy. Many times I feel like it is a juggle between which bill we have to postpone till next paycheck. However about a month ago while studying my scriptures and I came across this passage in 3rd Nephi 13:31-33 that says Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall
we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For your heavenly Father
knoweth that ye have need of all these things.But seek ye first the
kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be
added unto you. Well I feel that in the past couple of months I have been learning a lot about faith and I so I decided that I was going to try and let go a lot more and try very very hard to trust in
the Lord and his ability to provide for our needs. I will still keep
budgeting my money but I would try and worry less about tomorrow and
focus more on what I can do today. I am so lucky though to have a
husband who does not want for a lot of brand name or stuff. He is very
supportive of our family and is very good about living within our means.
He does not ask for things and we don't argue about money which I am so
grateful for. If anything I know he wishes he could do more.
Well I have been pleading with the Lord to provide some way for our family to not be so strapped financially and even to be able to pay off some much needed overdue bills. We received Josephs tax return and were able to do much good and I was waiting on $41 dollars for my tax return. Not much really but every bit helps. Well it showed online that it had been processed on August 10th but was yet to be deposited in my account. Now 11 days later I was becoming impatient and decided that I could not wait any longer so I gave them a call.
I was directed to several different people and finally to one lady who said some details regarding our tax details to be finalized. She asked me some questions and then had me put on hold for a while. She said that sometimes when it is a big return they have to double check on stuff and I was like... uh $41? That is a big return?
Well after being on hold for 20 hours and feeling my eye balls falling out of my head as I got older and older and older...hehe... she came back on the phone and said that everything had been accepted by the computer and that our refund to the amount of $2657.73 had been approved. I was like "Um can you please repeat that?" She said that I would be receiving some back owing working for families refund of the above number and also an income tax return of $41. I thanked her, hung up the phone and burst into tears. I was literally sobbing uncontrollably for about 15 minutes while Joe tried to ask what had happened and Hinalei keep saying "Mummy stop crying, stop crying." Finally I managed to get the words out and we all knelt down and thanked Heavenly Father for his tender mercies and for showing me once again how aware he is of our little family. Not only will this money pay off the debts we have but will allow us to have a little extra.
I just want to bear my testimony to you that Heavenly Father is aware of us each indivdually. SO SO SO many times in the last couple of months I have struggled with whether to pay tithing, whether to pay fast offering etc and now here the windows of Heaven have opened and I am in awe and totally humble at the same time that the Lord has provided for our little family. I love this gospel with all my heart and I am grateful to a Heavenly Father who is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow!
