Wholesalers and a Donation

We had a friend Comment that we should blog more often. So I am encouraged and inspired to write.

I have been on a high for the past few days because we got a few or couple of yes's from wholesalers. One being a meat wholesaler. Yeah I am excited. And we got a 6 pallet donation of assorted food, drinks, and supplies. The donation was mostly water but man, who can't use bottled water. Well I don't know if my parents could. They always discouraged us kids from buying bottle water because it was a waste of money. hehehe Love you Mom and Dad Wendle.

Any way so that was exciting. It was an adventure on the day we picked up the donation. When we rolled up we had a pallet from the last donation in the truck and I was thinking what on earth are we going to do with the pallet it will just take up space that we need for the donation. Joel suggested we ask the people at the warehouse if they could use it. So we just took it out of the truck and set it aside as we waited to load up our truck with the donation.

Also We had bought a pallet jack a few months ago for an occasions such as this. But when Joel went to pick up the first pallet with the pallet jack our jack broke right then and there. Oh the embaressment. But the Lord has been teaching me about having a good attitude or not showing everything I am feeling on the inside when there is a "crisis" So I put on a smile and just got to work. Do you know you can feel better just by smiling. Who knew?

That is when our pallet came in handy Joel and I quickly went to work by putting our pallet down and unloading the donations from their pallet to our pallet. We did this for 3 pallets until they came with a pallet jack that we could use to load our truck. Then things went a bit more smoothly. The workers at the warehouse commented about how hard Joel and I work which felt good because it helped me feel a little less embaressed. I mean come on it was our first time picking up from this company and our pallet jack broke, when does that happen? They were gracious and we went on our way.

Since God has not given Supplying Needs a building or a warehouse yet we parked in an empty parking lot of a vacant warehouse and went through all the banana boxes full of assorted food, water, and supplies. It was awesome and it didn't take all that long to go through each box and organize according to food, animal food, water, and supplies. We then took what we needed and for a family and then gave the rest away to 4 churches who are helping their surrounding community.

God is just so good. And we found that God had provided toliet paper (the soft kind that I won't buy but that Joel always wants. I am just too cheap) and dawn dish soap that I won't buy unless it is on sale because again I am just too cheap. But God is not and takes care of us. We also picked up food for a family which was cool because when we gave it to them they said How did you know we needed sugar, did we tell you? I said no I had no clue. God just rocks.

So that was our big adventure. We are excited they want to give to us once a month. What a blessing.

Then on Friday I was calling wholesalers about their non-sellable products and we had a few yes's. I was so pumped . . . . . still am. They are going to call us when they have something for us.

So that is about it from us. Oh wait we did get our pallet jack fixed . . . . for free. A couple that have adopted Joel and I that live in Stockton has us over to their house for dinner and holidays. Well the husband Kim wields and says if we ever need help he would love to. So when Joel brought it up that our pallet jack broke and ask if he could help, Kim was more than willing. It was such a relief to Joel because we dont' have the equipment (yet) and the supplies (yet) and the pallet jack may not have been fixed or been expensive to fix. Praise God for that kind of provision eh!?!

Okay really that is it. We love all ya'll very much. We are excited what God is doing. Thank you for all your prayers they have helped us so much.

Love Love Love,
The Butlers