Tired of Waiting...

Tired of Waiting...

Okay so here's the deal. I'm tired of waiting on the military. All these confusing parts of a moving machine that never seem to get you where you need to be or want to be.

Ian and I have been waiting on a few minor details to be cleared up before we tell every one that we're moving to Germany. Yes, I did say moving to GERMANY. As in the country, where they speak this language called German. It's a short trip though, so don't go thinking that you're getting rid of us that easily. :o) It's a temporary duty for 6 months. Ian's main job would to teach and train the new kids that are just getting out of school. He would also be responsible for updating and changing their current programs and systems on how to train the new guys.

Since this is a TDY (temporary duty) it's basically being treated as a deployment for Ian. However, since it's a TDY to Germany, I would be able to accompany him. Currently we're looking for a place off post for us to live for the short 6 months that we would be there. That's not as much of a problem as getting permission to live off base. Ian has housing provided for him at no cost to us, but that housing situation doesn't allow me to be with him. So in the process of asking if we could have off post housing, the first time we asked we were turned down. However, this was due to the fact that they thought we were asking for the military to provide and pay for off post housing. That wasn't the case. We were asking for formal permission to live off post on our own, paying for it out of our own pocket. We have tried to clarify and are still waiting for a response.

Our Commander, that is doing all the negotiating in a sense for us with the Germany base, is just as confused about the situation as we are. We're getting a lot of conflicting information from different parties. Though I find it incredibly dis-heartening and frustrating, Ian assures me that it's like this every time when he goes on a deployment. So I feel a little more reassured by that.

So the long story short is that we're still waiting to hear about our housing situation. Please pray for us. Please pray that if this is God's best for us, things will fall into place they way they are meant to. Or that if this isn't God's best for us, it would be screamingly obvious that this is the wrong choice and God would open another door. Right now we kinda feel stuck between a rock and a hard place. June is winding down, and we still don't have any real answers or clear directions. If Germany isn't the right path, I'm afraid we don't know what the right path is.

Ashley