We're Moving

To North Carolina! What?! You might be asking yourself. We'll let me give you the low-down.

Jeff graduated last March with his Master's in Healthcare Administration. He's been looking for a job for a long time now and everyone keeps telling him he needs experience. How's he supposed to start aquiring that almighty and important experience if he's been in school?!

He works at a surgery center right now and he's been talking to a lot of the sales reps that come in. He decided that that is what he would like to do.

Well, a wrench was thrown into the works.

One day, after one of our MANY job discussions, Jeff finally came out with it. He said he really wanted to be a Seminary teacher.

I was like "WHAT?!". I knew he has always wanted to teach and he'd mentioned seminary teaching but that was the extent of it.

So, this was in August. I called around and the University of Utah was the only school that offered night classes for the seminary pre-service program. He's been taking the classes since then and has been really loving it.

In the mean time, he has continued looking for a medical sales job because the seminary teaching program is extremely competetive and they tell you that you need a back-up plan.

Jeff talks to EVERY sales rep that comes into the surgery center so that he can find out what he needs to do to get a job in medical sales.

A few weeks ago the OrthoPro rep said that they are looking to expand back east.

We've said since we got married that we'd love to live far away for a while.

They interviewed him and offered him the job when the interview was over. They told him he could choose between 4 states. Illionis, Alabama, Tennessee, or North Carolina. It wasn't a hard decision. North Carolina hands down.

The only thing that was holding us back was the seminary program. Jeff won't find out until after a 2 week trial teaching period in May if he'll be selected to student teach for a year. Out of over 100 people, they choose 16 students teachers and then about 5 of the students teachers are selected to become full-time seminary teachers. So, the chances are slim but he still wanted to pursue it. However, we didn't want to pass up the OrthoPro job.

Last Thursday, Jeff went to his class and asked the instructor what would happen if he were to move in the middle of the program.

His instructor told him that they can fly people to where Jeff is and that Jeff can record himself while teaching. If the Lord wants him to be a seminary teacher, it will happen.

So that was our answer. He could do BOTH!

We were so excited. We really felt like that was the answer we were looking for.

Jeff starts his new job February 12th and has a 2 month training period.

The headquarters are in SLC so the training's here.

Then we move to NORTH CAROLINA the middle of April.

It all seems like it's working out. The only tough thing is that I'll be over 7 months pregnant when we move. That's going to be a little scary for us but we feel like it's the right decision for our family.