Monday Nathan and I were both on the phone to lawyers, SCC, Attorney General's office and finally at the end of the day we found out the name of the Law firm that the mortgage company was using and we were able to contact them! Monday evening Nathan and I spend our night on the couch, him playing his guitar and both of us singing praise to God. That brought back so many memories from when we were dating- that is how we spent our date nights! We did a lot of praying that night, asking God to intervene. We both feel like God has given us this house and I'm not sure why but we now have to fight for it! For years we've asked God for a larger home, and for years we have waited for this home, and for 15 months now we have been walking and praying our circles around this home, and on November 26, 2013, God said "Time to sound the horns!"
I put our my last blog post on November 25th asking if anyone had any connections to media or lawyers who would help us. I had a friend contact me saying she had a contact to WTVR 6 news. I emailed her contact Tuesday morning asking for help and within 15 minutes I was told I would be contacted by a reporter, and given the name of a organization to call, called H.O.M.E. I immediately called H.O.M.E. but was given a voicemail. In the meantime our attorney was putting together a package to send out to the mortgage holders attorney to see if they would stop the foreclosure.
I received a call from Shelby Brown of Wtvr, she informed me that she had a friend who works in Senator Tim Kaine's office who used to work for H.O.M.E. She called Paula and read her my email and I was told she was SHRIEKING after every line!! I was given her number and told to give her a call in an hour! When I spoke with Paula she had already started to make phone calls on our behalf to the trustees office, attorney's office, and even to the Mortgage company themselves!!
In the meantime Channel 6 new came over for an interview! They were here for two hours yet when the clip aired there were only a few clips from what was actually said in the interview. I guess that is how it works with all the editing. While they were here we received word that the auction on the home had been postponed for 30 days!!! God had done a miracle!!
Here is our first interview:
http://wtvr.com/2013/11/27/family-caught-up-in-short-sale-almost-loses-home/
I felt like they kinda tried to make us look like idiots with the comment from the other realtor, but in reality, people move into their homes early ALL THE TIME!! We have a contract to do so, so it wasn't just a stupid decision that we made lightly! We really prayed about it and felt like God was going to take care of things!
That night after we found out the auction was cancelled, the song from Veggie Tales popped into my head and I sang it the rest of the night:
"The Lord has given this Land to us, no need to fuss, He knows what Hes doing, we know that He will take care of us, if we will follow Him!"
Wednesday morning, I woke up with joy as the girls and I prepped the kitchen to begin making our Thanksgiving feast! I was missing some lemons and sent Nathan to the store to pick some up when I received a phone call from WTVR Shelby Brown, asking for another interview! I called Nathan, got everyone dressed, and took a shower and they were here within an hour! I felt like that interview was a lot better than the first one. I was able to talk about God and how our family had prayed that God would save our home and it was an answer to prayer. Nathan and I talked before the interview that we knew they would edit a lot of it out but that if we did anything in those interviews we wanted to make sure the Name of God was honored! So we both talked about God as much as we could and in each interview they has at least one blurb of me talking about how we prayed for this house, or how God answered our prayers.
After they left I went back to my cooking. (I don't have a link for the second interview yet) I cooked for 29 hours! This would be the first Thanksgiving we ever hosted in our home! But I tell you it was WORTH the 29 hours! Our meal was amazing! I wish I had taken a photo of the finished product but I didn't, here is just a peek at what it looked like though.
The day after Thanksgiving, we laid around the house and today is Sunday and I still don't think I have re-cooperated from my cook-a-thon!
Thursday evening Nathan and I hit a few stores and was home by 1am. I began feeling upset while we were out because the memories from last year came flooding back to me. Last year on black Friday, we left Thursday evening and ended up stopping on the way for a pregnancy test. My test was positive! We were beyond excited!! A few days later I was in the ER because I began to lose the baby. We became pregnant again just 30 days later which was a huge blessing, however I cannot forget! I wonder if it really was a girl, or maybe that was the boy we've been wanting! Wonder what she would have looked like, how she would have interacted with the girls, who would she have been...I didn't realize how badly it still breaks my heart till Thursday evening. I know she is in a better place, I just wish I could have held her in my arms!
So that was our week in a nutshell. Our fight is FAR from over! We have 30 days to convince these banks that they need to honor our contract. Right now we have complaints in with S.C.C, Office of Attorney General, Consumer Financial Protection Buero in Washington D.C, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. We aren't going out without a fight because like a friend of mine reminded me "What God has given, let no man take away!" Now that we've blown our horns and the walls of Jericho came tumbling down, we have a lot of rubble to sort out! Keep our family in your prayers as we continue through the holidays fighting this fight!
I also cannot even begin to explain to you all how humbling it is to see so many of my friends and even people I have not met so up in arms over our situation! I'm not used to having so many people fighting for me. I'm usually the one on the other end of that, fighting for others so it is such a blessing and so humbling to see how many people really care about us!
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