Classic Mary Moments: Thanks Mark! (Part 2)

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Thanks Mark! (Part 2)

Weeeeeeeeeeellllllllllll, once I had that $100 in my hand, MOM DID find out about it annnnnnnnnnnnd of course, like any good mom would, she DID NOT APROVE of me excepting the gift!
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She said, that's not right Mary! You don't even like him, there is NO way you can take that large of an amount of money from him! I'm like, MOM, I mean we are friends...She's like, NO! That's taking advantage of him! I'm like, I don't see HOW, when I in NO WAY manipulated him into giving me the money annnnnd I've told him I don't like him and he STILL wanted to give it to me! She's like, well, that's HOW I feel about it!!! (Lets NOT talk about the hot-pink-flowered-razor-phone he gave me!!!! Remember HOW cool razor phones were??? Yeah, I wouldn't know, I HAD TO GIVE IT BACK!!! AHAHAHAHA!!!)

Soooo I knew WHAT my mom thought, Buuuuuuuuuuuuuut since I was a legal adult at the time, she let me decide what I was going to do, buuuuuut she let me know how she felt!!!! Soooooooooo being the good girl that I was, I decided to just pray about it!!! :)))
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Weeeeelllll as I prayed about it, its like all of the sudden God began to change my feelings for this guy!!! All of the sudden I felt like I was missing him and thinking about seein him again was even making my heart slightly flutter annnnnd then I realized, OH MY WORD...I ACTUALLY LIKE HIM!!!!

I had such a crush on him that I felt like it was ONLY RIGHT to accept this young man's generosity...

LET THE SHOPPING BEGIN!!!

And let me tell you all, I went to town shopping, "IN LOVE" the whole entire way!!! I bought a lot of stuff, buuuuuuut the ONLY thing I actually remember was this beautiful navy blue dress I bought with white beaded flowers going down the bottom of the front and one side of the top of the dress!

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All the other girls were like, Ooooooh wait till he sees you in that...annnnnd thus we named the dress, THE ENGAGEMENT DRESS (Ironically, later on when I DID have a boyfriend, he requested me to me to wear that dress in some pre-engagement pictures we were getting done...which btw obviously didn't work out! *That awkward moment where you never get passed the pre-engagement stage...LOL...anyway, after that break up, that dress was officially DONE FOR!!! AHAHAHAHA!!!)Weeeeeeellllll...I managed to stretch that $100 out for the two weeks they were on their missions trip...

Finally, the day after I spent the last dollar, the guys were back! The girls were all sooooo estatic to see me and this guy together now that I ACTUALLY LIKED HIM BACK!!! They were like you have to wear your hair down and curled and you MUST WEAR THE ENGAGEMENT DRESS!!!

Sooooooooooo I did exactly what they said I should do, buuuuuuut, I don't know WHAT HAPPENED, buuuuuuuuuut LIKE, my heart just wasn't into this relationship anymore. Its like, as I had spent that last dollar the day before, suddenly, GOD CHANGED MY FEELINGS FOR HIM AGAIN...the crush was DONE AND OVERRRRR annnnnd I realized something...

IT JUST WASN'T GOD'S WILL!!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

(Okaaaaaaaaaaaay people, don't judge me,

I may have been in my 20's buuuuut...

I was just a KID back then!!!)

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Annnnnnnd that was THE END of this story...

TILL ABOUT 4 years later...

"Thanks Mark!" Part 3 TOMORROW!!!

♥Mary Frances :)
P.S. The guy DID like the dress!!!
P.S. I actually STILL take gifts even if I don't like you back...
In case anyone wants to buy me something...I'm jus sayin...I'LL TAKE IT!!! ;)))

The Votaws!!!

He has preached all over the US, China, Taiwan, the Philipines, Vietnam and many more Asian countries. He preaches in underground churches in communism countries. He converted a man on death row in prison to Christ and 3 hours before that man died he baptized him in Jesus name. He prayed the first man in Vietnam to kill and americn soldier through to the Holy Ghost and Baptized him in Jesus name. He has converted trinitartin preachers all over to the Oneness doctrine...BUT ABOVE all else...I thank God that I TOO am ONE OF THOSE souls he reached out too...he gave 7 years of his life to New York City!!! I thank God that he answered the call!!! It wasn't until his 6th & final year as pastor there, that our family came into church...we were there for 9 months before we came to AZ and then right after that the Votaws left NYC for the mission fields of Asia...I THANK God that someone had a burden for NYC!!!

Sis. Kathy!!!

This is the woman that invited my Momma to a Pentecostal church!!! She told me that she was actually new in the church herself and that she would see my mom in the front yard of our house playing with us kids and she just wanted so badly for my mom to have what she had just recieved herself. It may have been just one person that she was witnessing to at that time, but that one person has had an affect on her own five children and now its her Grandchildren that are still recieving the blessing of Sis. Kathy's witness. 25 years ago, it wasn't just my mom...I may have only been two at the time, but it was ME she was winning too! I thank God she wasn't afraid to be a witness and that she didn't give up on my mom. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. (Acts 2:39) When you decide to live for God it doesn't just stop with you!