After coming to Maryville my next really cool experience with the Spirit came within the first couple of months. I had just bought the store and the local radio owner contacted me about advertizing on KNIM, he invited me up to the station to check things out and discuss business arrangements ect. While I was there he introduced me to LES !!! my future wife. After we met she knew right away that we would be married , it took me a little longer to figure things out, us guys are not always the brightest bunch!! Anyway I was focus on my new business and began to get to know Les thru the radio station, she did my ads and offered a radio package deal that gave her the opportunity to work with me personally!! We got to know each other over the next 3 months or so and i finally took her up on an invitation for a BBQ cook out, everything went great. les at that time smoked and drank beer pretty heavily and the smoking was not attractive to me at all, I was sitting on the sofa at her house and she had smoked a lot of cigaretts there were tons of smoke in the air, and all of a sudden the Spirit spoke to me clear as day, and said this is your wife!! I thought to myself and said to the Spirit really!? and the Spirit said yes this is your wife. I have always listen to the Lord and his Spirit and I thought I better get to know this girl better and so we started dating and look at us now we just celebrated our anniversary Oct. 3 married 23 years!!!
Over the next couple of years we had many small miracles , but the best was when Les became pregnant with are son Jackson. We had a heck of a time conceiving children our fist couple of years, we had gone thru all the testing and just could not find anything wrong. So we began looking at adoption, and Les did a lot of praying, me not so much until finally one day I prayed mightily to the Lord and said I think I would be a good father , but whatever your will is ,so it must be. I finally put it in his hands. Shortly afterwards, Les was getting ready to go in for testing on her eggs and it would be an invasive surgery and so they had to check her temperature to make sure she didnt have any infections , when they tested her temperature she had a fever!!! We were disappointed that we went all the way to KC for nothing and we were just tired of all the testing, so we rescheduled the appointment for a few days later. I came home from work a night or two later and Les was waiting for me in the driveway , when I got out of the car she started screaming I am pregnant!!! I stayed calm and did not believe her, I thought she was being crazy . so I calmly began to ask questions and to my surprise she was!!!!! If she would not have had that fever, our son would have been accidently aborted, it was a true miracle and protection from the LORD!!!!
What a lovely beginning to a sweet family!!!
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