Genevieve C. West

The Moores offer to let us use their air mattress and we happily take them up on it after sleeping on the floor for a week! The doorbell rings at 9pm. It's Mr. James Paul with a dining room table for us! I get a text from friends in Billings. They were coming to Bozeman to drop off a tv, a toddler bed and all sorts of toys for Kaylie and linens for us! I walk into the apartment one day and there's a happy surprise waiting for me: A couch and a papason chair are sitting in the living room! Eric had passed someone cleaning out their garage and asked if they were getting rid of it and they even helped him lift it up over the edge of the balcony! Chairs, bar stools, even a propane BBQ and we paid little or nothing. We were quite content with a beautiful, clean home and nothing to sit on. But the Lord blessed us abundantly. While He loves giving us the desires of our hearts, I also know that nothing we posess belongs to us. It all belongs to God, even our home. I believe H

A couple weeks before we were to leave Billings, friends of ours were kind enough to let us stay a night at their home in Bozeman so we could view as many affordable apartments as possible before Eric had to be back at work. We saw some pretty interesting places. 1980's everything pink including the carpets. Shag carpets. 1960's kitchens. A bathroom with nowhere to put a lightbulb. I don't want to know what that stain came from. Do they expect people to shower in this thing? Floors that had so much give I was expecting to see Eric fall through the floor at any moment. There was one place where I refused to let Kaylie out of my arms because I didn't want her touching anything. And then Eric showed me the apartment just 3 blocks away from the Paul family, who had been such blessings to us and good friends since we moved to Montana. I walked in the door and laughed. Everything was white and clean and new, a fireplace, a bar, a balcony, 3 big bedrooms, including a m