Sacrifice

So, I kind of realized at the temple yesterday that we need to wait on an apartment as a sacrifice. (I kind of simplified this for the sake of not explaining it all, so just go with me on this.) I'm not sure what we're sacrificing for, but I know there is a reason. The definition of sacrifice is to give up one thing for something better. The thing we give up is usually something we really want or even need. Eric and I really want and even need a place to live. However, we feel strongly that we should just wait and sacrifice what we want now for something better to come along.

The good news is that something good might be coming along sooner than we originally thought. Eric met a guy at church today that manages an apartment complex and he happens to have an apartment available to rent in the right price range for us. The guy also has a fridge that he's trying to get rid of that we could probably have. It's also in our friends' ward and stuff. Overall, it sounds like a good deal. We'll go check it out tomorrow and see if we like it and stuff. Maybe this is the answer, maybe it's not. I'm just trying to have patience and not give in as soon as we think we've found a place. I'll keep you all updated.

Homeless!

So, currently we are feeling quite homeless. We are staying with my grandparents, but they're about 1.5-2 hours out of the area we want to live and work. So, when we're in that area we feel homeless. The trouble is, we aren't finding what we want or need. As we've been praying about what we need to do we get the strong impression we need to wait. Do you know how frustrating that is? We just want to start our lives down there, but we can't quite yet. Right now I'm working on faith and patience until it is the right time for us to get a place. We don't know when it will all turn around, but we know it will. Life is crazy and out of our control. The best we can do is follow the Spirit and have faith it will all work out accordinly.

Los Angeles and Apartments

So, we've spent quite a lot of time down in the L.A. area lately. It'll be so nice once we actually live there and don't have to commute or impose on our friends' places anymore. It's been strange though, we've looked at several decent, acceptable places, but for some reason we don't feel anything towards them. As Eric and I were out looking at places yesterday we were talking about this feeling of "stupor" about the whole thing. We just felt like it wasn't the right time for us to find a place. We don't know why it is the way it is, but we have that it'll work out.

In the mean time I've been applying for different jobs. I'm actually applying for apartment manager jobs so that we can have a free place to live, but we'll see if any of those pan out. I've applied for a few other jobs as well working in different offices. The right job will come along, but we'll see if I ever get an interview. Eric is doing really well with his career goals. He's had a couple of meetings and interviews. He was actually an "executive visitor" on the Warner Bros. lot yesterday. He has more interviews scheduled for next week as well. If only they weren't all internships and he could get paid. Life is scary here without money. It's already going so fast!

Alright, that's about it for now. I'll do my best to keep you all posted. Thanks for all of our prayers and support. We can use it all right now.

Gas and Los Angeles

Sorry it's been so long since I've written anything. Eric and I have been working on a film this month. Well, we were only on set for like 2.5 weeks, but then we had to recover. It's a film about scout camp and it was super fun. There were 7 main boys and I just fell in love with all of them. I hope that all their careers will take off. I'm excited to see them succeed in life; once they graduate high school that is.

Anyway, we have much bigger news right now. We are finally moving to the Los Angeles area. We'll look into Burbank any some other near-by cities. We're so excited and a little bit scared. We're going to stay with my grandparents (they live about 1.5 - 2 hours away from L.A.) and visit family at first, then we'll look into places to live and work. We want a bit of vacation before we have to do loads of work and never get a day off again. We might even go to Disneyland. We're very excited! Oh yeah, we're leaving in 4 days too. I can't believe how soon it is. Eric has an interview in about 2 weeks. He will hopefully have a job very soon.

In other, funnier news: gas was spilled in the back of our van. Well, it wasn't a ton, just a slow leak that made our car reek. We spent a lot of yesterday scrubbing the carpet and sucking it up with a carpet vacuum. It's smelling tons better already. We were able to leave the windows down last night so hopefully it's aired out now. I haven't been out there yet today, but I'll let you know how it goes. It made for a really awful weekend. Everything just reeked of gas and I didn't like it at all. So, don't ever spill gas on any carpet you care about keeping around. It's no fun to clean up.