A Funny Story

Brady and I went to look at cabinets on Tuesday. A friend had referred us to someone so we decided to see about it. It was a man, probably in his 20's and his new wife of almost a year. They are expecting their first baby in a few months as well, so just this young, cute couple who has started a business on their own. They came to the house to take measurements and we told them who had referred us to them. Then Brady said, "We go to church with Gerald" (the guy who had referred us). To which they replied, "You go to church? We're looking for a church." When does that ever happen!? We jumped right on that and told them we had a great church that they would just love. We arranged to meet them at the church house closer to their house (which isn't ours) on the 16th, as they were moving his mother this coming weekend. We'll see how that goes...but we were very excited about it.

Now the funny part, he (his name is Juan) was telling us why he was looking for a church. He told us that a while ago he was lost at sea - had been on a boat with others for three days and two nights. They woke up the third morning and their boat had been drifting but they couldn't tell because it was dark and the compass had been pointing north, but the boat was headed somewhere else come morning. Come to find out, they were on this boat from Cuba headed to the U.S. He was telling us that they hadn't had anything to eat the whole trip because if they were to vomit from motion sickness it would attract sharks. They bring gasoline and pour a little in the water when they do see a shark because it makes them go away. So anyway, when they realized they had been drifting Juan said he started praying and told God if he ever set foot on land again, he would give away all his gold (his necklaces) and go to church and pray again. He said they were in Key West in 30 minutes. They docked, got out of the boat, and some Coast Guard people came up to them, quizzing them about how they got there. They were very close to a coast guard station, but were not seen by the Coast Guard. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not, but in any case, he's here now, married to a citizen so I guess he's in the club now and just living life like and American (with a Cuban accent of course). So he said when they got out of the boat, the threw his necklaces in the ocean and when he got to his guardian family, he asked them to take him to church. He said he took a dozen white roses to Jesus. The church they used to go to is too far away for them now so we're excited to see what they think on the 16th! All of that over shopping for cabinets!