car accident

To update you all on what happened...whew...it's been a long 36 hours!
Yesterday David and I were in a car accident. Thankfully, not our faults (we are praying the police report and insurance make the same conclusion) but we were hit from behind by a lady probably going 35-40 mph. I, with protest of course, went to the hospital because I had some neck pain. Diagnosis: major whip lash (I could have told them that:). David is fine and has been a great husband through all of this. It was a 4 car pile up, so we were pushed into the car ahead of us and the car ahead of us was pushed into another car. BIG MESS! We haven't heard the final verdict, but we are pretty sure our car is totalled...but here's another mess in the situation.
We were in the process of trading cars. We realized we couldn't keep up with the gas on the 4Runner and felt that we needed to find a car with better MPG so we could be better steward of our money. The night before David met a guy who had a 2003 Ford Focus with 83000 miles (vs our 93 4Runner with 167000) and he wanted to trade. I had the title at home, so he signed over his title and we were to meet in the AM to sign over our title. That night, driving home in the Focus, we had some concerns about the safety and registration. So we asked to meet up in the morning to get things figured out. However, they did not show up with our 4 Runner which was a concern to us. It ended up being a little sticky (lesson learned) but we figured out the safety and registration was up to date. So we were on our way into town to have our mechanic look at the car when we were hit from behind. We called the "used to be" owners of the Focus and signed over our car to them right away. We wanted to take the hit, not them, so we hope they are blessed with our 4Runner and we are currently back to being car-less. However, the good news of the whole situation is...we are starting to build relationship with the people we traded with. If anything good can come out of the situation, we want to see the family in heaven. We actually were invited to their son's bday on Oct 4...who knows what God has in store. AND, we are so blessed to be a part of this body of Christ. I tell you what, right away a email was sent out to the whole church body to pray...and they did. Our adopted parents in Hilo, Art and Donna, invited us to stay a couple nights with them to help us calm down and figure things out. We had a great night talking story with them last night, they are absolutely wonderful. People have called with names of chiropracters. I have received text messages from students with love and encouragement in them. David and I went for a little walk last night and ran into a church family in the neiborhood who wanted to make sure things were ok. One family offered their car to us until we can find a car again. All this to say, it's been absolutely incredible seeing the body of Christ come around us, love us, and support us.

We don't understand why this is all happening. We were already being stretched in so many ways and then BOOM a car accident. But we hold onto Romans 8:28. I met with 11 of the teen girls from youth group this morning and talked about what i've learned these past few days sharing with them Rom 8:28. I told them that our definition of "good" may be different from God's definition of "good". Sometimes good to us is material things and a comfortable life. Instead God's version of good may be the lost being found, and we getting to be a part of it in a small or big way.
So please pray with us. We know God works things out for the good, and we hope that is in another car, but worse case scenario if it's not...we want the people we've come in contact with the past few day, we want to see them in heaven worshipping our Savior Jesus Christ!

That's the reason we are in Hilo...and that is the reason we will stay in Hilo!