Last year, my friend and I co-leased a car for the year. And this year, I was going to do the same thing, but so far, has not worked out. Which is good, because I'm currently renting a Toyota Yaris, and I don't like it much at all. It's pretty gutless.
So I was looking on expatriates.com and I found someone selling their dark purple 2007 Mazda 3 Sport. I contacted him and we finally met a few days ago. I wrote about the help I received from Pastor Keith and Brother Macky. Today when I went to the Mazda shop to meet with him and get it checked out, he never showed up. Since I had the day off, we went over to the used car salesroom at Mazda.
I saw a beautiful, sparkly, turquoise Mazda 6 and fell in love. Sadly, it was not the better car...the better car was the dusty silver Mazda 6 outside with the 2.3L engine and fancy rims. Of course, when we looked closer at the blue-green car with the 2.0L engine and the boring rims, you could see that it had been painted and there was silver spots through the paint ;)
Macky, who is 100% Filipino, managed to talk the dealer down. "I'm Egyptian, too," he said, in Arabic. The dealer ended up dropping the price by 200KD. By the grace of God, I have a large chunk to put down as a down payment. Which leaves a smaller chunk for installents. I'll have it paid off in 2 years. I think I can handle that! (1KD = ~$3.60 CAD, so 200KD is still better than a kick in the pants!)
They prayed for me in devotions (I missed it today, I had morning duty watching the kids), and Macky said a few prayers before leaving and again when we left to go back to the church compound. (I found out why we also prayed for safety before driving...he drives like a local!! He would have been insanely bored if he'd let me drive...)
I think I've been shocked and amazed more times in the past 2 weeks than I can possibly count.
Now that I have the family car, it's time to find the family... ;)
And the way God has been providing lately, just you wait and see!!
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