What a strange turn of events?!

So as I mentioned before I had the interview in Missouri yesterday, Wednesday, and Andrew had a few as well. Let me recap a bit and let you know how this has all gone down.....

So two weeks ago Andrew and I got back from PA where I had a great interview but was uncertain if this is where I needed to be. I had only one other prospect in VA in two weeks (this week) that would seal my fate of where I would be, and Andrew finding nothing in these places. So we got in around 4:30 Wednesday evening, I had a patient at 6:30 and then the rest of the evening is history. Thursday morning my patient cancels and so I was home with Jess and my phone rings. It is a doctor in St. Joseph MO who is an ALL Activator technique office with some other specialties and is so swamped she can't see all the patients wanting to come in, by herself and needs help ASAP. So I tell her I can go see her practice in two weeks (substituting this for the VA trip and post poning that one till further notice). It sounded great, check out the website to her clinic "Activate Your Health" and set up the travel plans.

She has a Christian atmosphere in her clinic and talked to her staff ladies and her patients about me coming and Andrew looking for a youth position in a church, Methodist if possible. So with the help of some staff and a few patients, Andrew had 3 different people to talk to when we got there, one possibly two with a Methodist church!

So Andrew sends Dr. Sivi his resume to send to the Baptist guy to interview with and then hears from her patient that Ashland UMC is looking and actually the Tuesday we fly in the district supervisor is there interviewing for the youth position for the church. (Now tell me this is not just happening as easy as pie and things aren't just rolling into place?) So Dr. Sivi gives her a copy of Andrews resume and she takes it to the church. The pastor calls Andrew and sets up a meeting time with him on Tuesday night after we fly in, and after they have interviewed with the other two guys they have flown in for the position.

Our flight is suppose to leave Dallas Love to Oklahoma City to Kansas City and we get there by 7:30 to get Andrew to the interview by about 8:15pm. And wouldn't you know the weather is bad in Houston and they can't hold the flight in OKC any longer so we get moved to the direct flight from Dallas to KC that leaves at 8:45pm and gets in at 10:25pm!!! So no interview. They agree to an evening interview with Andrew Wednesday at 7:00pm.

So Wednesday comes and I spend all day with Dr. Sivi and run around chasing her through the many patients and new exams. Then we did lunch and talked salary and bonuses with the growth of the clinic, etc. And Andrew had lunch with Joe from the Baptist church and then gets toured around St. Joe by Pastor Jon, from the Methodist church. Things go well and Andrews interview is over by 8:00pm. I went to dinner with Dr. Sivi and her husband and she offered me the position if I wanted it and I said most definitely, this seems like the place I was meant to be. We get done and go pick up Andrew to show him the clinic and show me the town till he hears back from the pastor.

10:30 rolls around and he gets a phone call saying they have made a decision but wanted everyone to sleep on it and see if there are any change of feelings by 9:00 this morning and then he would call and let Andrew know the results, and asks if I go my job. (so we are still unsure what is the outcome but pretty sure he got it because of how amazing everything has just fell into being through all of this.)

We leave the hotel and our flight is delayed from 8:30 to 9:35 from KC to Tulsa, OK. So we were thinking we would hear from Pastor Jon before we left but no call. We arrived in Tulsa at 10:30 and Andrew turned on his phone, between the 10min to our next flight, and had a message. I awaited anxiously to any facial sign of a result. And after a few minutes, that seemed like forever, he shakes his head yes with a huge grin. HE GOT THE JOB!!! He said he wanted to listen to it again to make sure, and so I listened to it after and it said, "yahda yahda yahda, we are glad your girlfriend was offered her position and we would like to do the same for you and offer you the position here at Ashland UMC!"

OH MY GOSH~ WE ARE MOVING TO ST. JOSEPH MISSOURI!!! In a month we will be there. How much more amazing could this trip and few days have been for Andrew and I, who have been stressing and fighting about finding something we both like and want and the town and area we both want and blah blah blah..... IT IS HERE!!

Andrew and I are having such a time with this because, for those of you who know anything much of our lives together, it has been anything but smooth sailing and easy as pie situations and to have something like this, so HUGE, just kind of handed to us on a silver platter almost effortlessly...... WOW... and I truly mean.....wow.

So this is the beginning of my life~our lives

~Dr. Allison Patton (unofficially but National Board Certified and all test passed DOCTOR) : )