Answered Prayer

It seems like there is so much to post and now my life is getting busier and I'm having a hard time keeping up with it all. I have to tell you about the Clarkson family, I really think of them as answered prayer. The first time we visited the International Church of Pattaya, when we pulled into the parking lot, a family with three boys were getting out of their vehicle. We instantly had a connection, they have just moved here about 5 weeks ago from Fredricksburg, VA with GM. Their three boys are Drew-14, Ethan-10 and Carter-7 and all the guys became fast friends. Right away she invited us over for grilled hamburgers and then we had them over for a swim date. We quickly found an amazing connection, a God thing!! She mentioned that her Dad has travelled to Thailand 33 times in his job with a corn seed company. He lives in North Carolina. I told her that we were raised in TX where a lot of corn is grown and she said her Dad grew up in a couple of small towns in TX-Littlefield and Hereford!! That is our old stomping ground. In less than 24 hours one of her aunts was calling my mother to ask if she had a daughter in Thailand, I think they were checking us out! I just love connections like that, man, it is a small world and God is so good to send us just the right friends, answered prayer! Today, we went to lunch to celebrate her birthday. Not only has she become a fast friend she seems to have been instrumental to our finding 'the' house for us. I don't want to say too much because we are waiting to sign the contract, hopefully tomorrow. God just wasn't opening the door to that golf-course home by the boys school, it just seemed to be stalling, it boiled down to our realtor having a history with the home owner, he used to be the previous manager of the property. Once I called the owner directly and she conveyed to me that she wanted to deal with us without our particular realtor it seemed to speed things up a tad but there had continued to be a lot of back and forth tag about the security system. Mark really has stuck to his guns concerning a security system since day one because he has to be gone a good deal of time. Last week while the owner was still waffling about the security system, Mark and I just decided to start looking again. Molly, my new friend had told me about some houses near her. The Clarkson's have a beautiful property with a nice, new home, 2 bedroom guest house, pool house, tropical garden...you get the picture. So we began the home search anew and I think we finally have a home!! I will tell you all about it in future postings if the deal goes through but suffice it to say The Clarkson family has been such an answer to prayer.