Oh what a web!

Some of you may have found my last few months worth of posts interesting. First I discuss in detail how we are having Matt focus on school full time then I freak out that we don't have money and discuss me getting a job full time and then I say thats not working and say we are looking into the military...you must think we are a house of crazy people that don't know how to make decisions or stick to a decision once we've made it. But I beg to differ. The thing is that this is how Matt and I work with the Spirit. When Matt lost his job we realized this was the prime opportunity for him to focus on getting his helicopter lisences. And it is. We looked at our options and decided that having Matt go to school full time was the best option available and we started working towards that. As we were praying the Lord was saying 'yes, that is right for what you know...' and letting us continue working toward our goals. Once we realized there were issues with our original plan we made out another list of options and began exploring those. We began working toward our next viable option (me getting a job) and praying about it as we went. Again it seemed the Lord was saying yes but he was saying 'yes, according to all the information you have, this is right'. But He was waiting for us to learn even more before he could confirm our next path. Moving on from me working toward the military we again recieved the confirmation that 'yes, this is right for what you know'. We started heavily exploring the Army and we were excited for the prospects and the opportunities but then again, we hit a road block. **Here I get to brag a moment** Matt got a really really good score on the ASVAB test. It is not an intelligence test but an aptitude test. The better you do the more jobs are available to you in your chosen field. You are given an overall score as well as scores in different aptitude areas (mechanical, electrical, etc). This is on a scale of 1-99. Its scored more or less like baby weights are as well. If a baby is in the 75%, that means she is heavier than 75% of all other babies. So on the ASVAB, if you get a 75% that means you did better than 75% of all people who take the ASVAB. What was Matt's score? 98%. His score was awesome and is so awesome that he can do any job he wants to at all in the military (as long as it is actually open). Okay so back to the story. Up until yesterday we were expecting to join the Army and go into the Aviation branch so eventually Matt could be trained as a pilot. He came home from testing with a list of open jobs and only two of the jobs seemed even remotely interesting to either of us and neither were in aviation. We spent about an hour discussing the pros and cons of both jobs and I went to sleep tossing and turning all night. When we got up this morning we realized that the Lord was saying 'Now that you have more information, its not right anymore, look again'. And look we did. We went to talk to the Army recruiter again but he ended up not being there. Matt talked to the Air Force recruiter instead. According to the Air Force recruiter, Matt's incredibly high score on the ASVAB puts him in a category called 'Extremely Well Qualified'. Because of this, he can choose his top 3 job choices and he is guaranteed one of those jobs. From what I could tell, everyone else gets 4 choices and an 'aptitude area' and if one of your top 4 aren't available you'll get plopped into any random job that becomes available in the aptitude area (mechanics, electrical, administration or something else). So we are suddenly feeling good about this again and we can tell that we are again on the right path. We feel the Lord saying 'this is right for what you know now.' Hopefully this is the last of those and we can continue on with joining the military without any more setbacks or glitches. Matt's top three choices would be: 1. Flight Engineer (he would be riding in helicopters and doing data analysis) 2. Helicopter Maintenance (he would do all the repairing needed for helicopters) 3. Imagry Analysis (he would analyze images from all aircraft, report on ememy bases ect) He LOVES the idea of the first choice, thinks the second choice would be pretty cool and is willing to do the third choice (he actually loves that as well but it doesn't have anything to do with helicopters) if the other two aren't open. We have a whole packet of information to fill out and turn in Monday, the have to do a physical and everything on Friday and by Friday afternoon Matt will be an official member of the Airforce. I think the point of this whole thing is that the Lord does answer our prayers and guides us to where we are supposed to be. If he had told us outright on March 1 that we needed to join the Airforce immediately, I don't think we could have done it. But we were given the opportunity to explore our options and learn how to make the best choice for our family.