Guess what?

Kris is quitting his job at Canterbury. This may seem silly, because he just got it recently. However, there is a very good reason for quitting.

His dad owns a rescue company, who provides on-site medics for all sorts of private projects, as some public. For instance, they provided medics for the rebuilding of the 35W bridge.

The rescue company got hired to be medics for the new Coen brothers movie that will be filming in MN. It is in construction now, and will be filming probably through the middle of November. Kris, as an EMT,  is employed by Rescue Resources, and will be able to work full time with the movie, even some overtime.

The pay? 2.5x what he makes at Canterbury. !!!!!! He will be working the movie 4.5 days/nights a week, and at Outback 2.5 days, in order to keep enough hours for our health insurance. So, he went to Canterbury and said "Sorry guys". Canterbury is sad to lose him, but they understand. The thing about this movie is that the overtime he works has a small window of 1.5x pay, and then double pay after a certain amount of hours. So the overtime he will work can end up being 5x what he makes at Canterbury now!

This is a total answer to prayer. When he got this job at Canterbury, we knew we were in a bind financially, but with how long we've stayed stuck in it, we were much worse off than we thought. This whole movie thing will much more speedily get us back on track. We'll also hopefully be able to do things like get new tires for him and some glasses for me. Maybe we'll be able to answer our phone again! (And maybe the internet will not get turned off as much and maybe our cars will always have insurance from now on!) 

According to our calculations, Kris will need to work about 9 days of movie to make as much as our mortgage payment is. This is a huge step up from the 25 days of Canterbury it took to do the same thing. Plus, having him work that much, but be able to pay our mortgage quickly means we'll be able to pay our other bills so much faster, and we'll be able to pay way more than minimums on credit cards and all our other things.

The movie will also be a long enough time for him to find another job to do afterwards. Hopefully by then there will be an opening at Allina, an ambulance type company that he really wants to work at, but hasn't had openings in like 2 years. Once he gets that job, they will put money towards his continuing education, and will basically pay for him to go from EMT to paramedic.

This is really good, ya'll. Our financial situation has just gone from depressing yet sort of hopeful, to "wow, things are just about to get so much better".

God keeps doing things for us to remind us that He's there, and working in our lives, and wants us to succeed. But this is one of the biggest things He's done, and we're really grateful.