Dustin and I bought a new car yesterday. Well, actually Monday... or Tues. umm, it's a little unclear as to when we ACTUALLY bought it. lol!

We went Monday to Morristown just to glance at some cars that I might be interested in. Mine has been broken since the day we got back from our honeymoon and we've been sharing a car since. It's been working out but it's not easy. We stopped and I found a Nissan Sentra that I really liked. A 2006. We test drove it and I loved it. We went to a few other places and we had one more place in mind to go. We were walking around (with a salesman, of course) Dustin asked me about a PT Cruiser. They had 5-6 Demo models at the lot. 2008, used but like 20,000 miles. I thought about it, and I decided that even though I'd never thought about it, I really liked the car. We test drove one and I LOVED it. Much more than the Sentra. We though that it would be a great deal and we wanted something as new as we could afford; we've had terrible luck with used cars. They took us in to put us in the system and do a credit check, we wanted to go home and think about it before we made a huge decision like that.
They, of course, wanted us to take it. They made us a deal: we sign all of the papers, and they'll sign one stating that if we change our mind, we can bring it back the next day and the papers will be shredded, no problem. Well who can pass up that deal? We did it. We took it home thinking that we would do it. The insurance was going to be 600 for 6 months. That was the biggest hindrance. Dustin came home from work the next morning (6 AM) and told me that he thought we should take it back. If I wanted to keep it, he said he would do everything in his power to make sure that we could afford it. But, it's going to be hard. On the way back I stopped at the old grocery store that I used to work at to see if he'd hire me for the holidays but it pretty much said there wasn't much to hire for right now. We explained to the salesmen our definite regret but we didn't want to commit to something we couldn't afford. They naturally tried to bring it down and we kept saying no. Finally they offered it from 13,500 to 10,000. Payments at 229/month.

We decided to come back before they closed and we'd think about it. We left and we prayed and talked about it, and decided that it's what we need. Maybe God it providing for us...?
We took it, resigned some papers. Yesterday we called the insurance to add it, and also we still needed to put me on as his wife instead of a driver. Thanks to Jesus, the insurance dropped 50%. 50%!!!! We both shed a tear or tow and prayed to thank Him. It was truly a blessing.
2 weeks ago a Christian radio station K-Love had a pledge drive. I felt that since we haven't tithed, we should pledge 20 a month. The next day Dustin wanted to make it 40. We talked and decided that if we left it to God, he will provide. And look at what's happened already. I'm amazed. I can't say that I've ever experienced anything big from God and nothing that's ever required much of faith. He's amazing, and He's providing for us every step of the way.

What's even more amazing, on the way to return the car, I asked Dustin, knowing that they'd try and lower the price, what the lowest price would have to be- he said he didn't really know. He asked me, and I answered the same, but something in both of our heads (we didn't find out 'till afterwards) was saying 10,000. We just had no idea what God was working out for us...
God Bless!!
~kG
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