At the beginning of my 3rd year at BFA (fall 2012), I contemplated buying a bigger vehicle, as my car was small and not able to carry many students or friends. Within the week I found a van to buy and sold my car for almost the exact same price!! I was so excited for the many opportunities this would give me!
Over the course of the year, I drove:
- my small group girls to/from our home every week, which was a few kms away
- our chapel band class to our home
- the M/F staff carpool to the MS
- myself and other staff members to our staff retreat in Switzerland
- myself and others to the high school retreat in Switzerland
- to Ikea (40mins away) to help furnish new homes (ours included!)
Since we lived out of town it was so helpful to have a larger vehicle to bring friends and students to our home! I also used our van to move our house to the middle school (in June) and into our new home (in August)!
A few weeks ago, I took my van to the mechanic as I had noticed a few things weren't working quite right. He took a few days to look at it and then asked me to come in to talk about it. It turned out that there were too many problems that it wasn't worth fixing.
While it was sad to know that I would no longer have my van to drive, it could not have come at a better time. This year we live in town and I don't have a small group, so the need for a van is much smaller. It will mean that we have to take a few extra trips to deliver all of our Operation Christmas Child boxes this year (our goal is 150!!), but that is doable. Our home is now walking distance to the high school, so this makes it much easier for others to stop by and for us to get places as well. I am so thankful for the gift of the van, even if it was just for a year!
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