Another mountain

I am a servant of the Most High God, a follower of Jesus Christ.

Dear Pastor Geoff,

As you can tell by now, if you did not know already, this whole journey has definitely been a God thing. Because of this last mountain and other things that have not worked out like I had planned and hoped that they would. I have now set up a " Go Fund Me page for myself " SherrilMiller's Journey Home" I pray that you, and the congregation will give cheerfully to it as God puts on your heart. 2COR 9:7.

Car Breakdown mountain

On Thursday 3/27/25 I was on my way back to Oklahoma to the apartment I was to be moving out of the next day, and my car broke down, not once but twice, on the freeway.

The 1st time I did pull over and called 911 they did send a police unit from somewhere in MO, but I was not up to Joplin yet, and because I requested, it was scary to drive me car, I will let you know why in here later. The 911 dispatcher also sent out a tow truck driver, but it was 6 pm, and it did not look like my car would be worked on that night. I did wait for the tow truck driver, but he was not very helpful, While waiting for him and the police unit that did come out to me, I was chatting and talking to my prayer warrior friends from our church that I have them on a group chat. One of the ladies on the chat called me and said her Nisan car did do the gear changing while driving on her, and a mechanic told her she probably just hit the gear switch slightly to make it go into D1 or D2. I was thinking about this when the tow truck driver was talking to me, and I asked Him would you please just watch me and see if I can get it to go back on the road now. He said, " Sure I can do that." So I got on the road and it went right up to the speed I wanted it to for the freeway driving, and I just went on down the road. I wanted to say to the driver of the tow truck, eat my dust buddy.

So for quite a while I did get it and just kept it going. Then I got on our Will Rodgers turnpike to go to my home in Tulsa, and the car started acting up again. Just before I got to the big fuel stop area on the turnpike the one with the Big McDonald's Arch on the car started acting up again. This time the check engine light did come on, it was now 8:00 pm, and I stopped for fuel and to use the restroom, then I thought maybe it needed oil, so I got a quart of oil looking at my sticker on the care as to what oil to put in it, and thank God there was a nice gentleman who helped me find out how and where to check the oil and put in the quart I got in the fuel station.

By this time I was getting very tired of driving, on this trip I went from Des Moines to my sister's in Wayland IA, and then from there I started the trip to Tulsa, so yeah it was a long trip. The check engine light did not go off, but the car was driving ok until I was just about to get into Tulsa, then it started acting up again with the transmission not wanting to accelerate, it was really scary. I called my friend Evy who is in Broken Arrow, and asked her to pray and stay with me, I wanted to just get my car home, it was now 9:00 pm and even though I knew that driving the car was not a good idea, God told me to keep going and that is what I did. I even told the tow truck driver who did take my car to the mechanic I had him look at, I said, " Look I am a single lady and it was 9 pm last night, there was no way I was going to pull over, when I knew it was not safe." He then said, well yeah I am glad you are ok, and that you did get your car home... I said me too. So that is how we did it. I was driving, I had Evy on my phone on speaker praying, and God leading the way and getting everyone else out of my way. This was definitely one of the scariest things I have ever been through.

So on Friday, I was supposed to move, and needless to say that did not happen. I did change my move date to one week out to 4-4-25, that way I kept my deposit of $500. I have already paid the moving company I am having to help me move to Iowa. My apartment complex manager has agreed to let me stay in the apartment another week, she said you can have longer if you need it. Again I thank god for giving me favor with good people like the man at the gas station, and my apartment manager.

So all was working out well and I spent a big part of my Friday with Evy, and another one of our wonderful friends who is also on that prayer chat I spoke about earlier. I was even able to do my laundry at her ( the other friend's) house, and then Evy took me to the grocery store so I could get some groceries, for my last week Lord Willing in OK... While at our friend's house, I got the news about my car. A new transmission needed to be put in, it would be close to $7,000. I did check with another transmission shop in Broken Arrow his quote was $6,000, but I would have had to pay for a tow to his shop and my AAA membership only does 5 miles, for one breakdown episode, I even had to pay $40 for the 1st tow to the mechanic shop. But I was thankful I had it, and just got it done. The mechanic at the Broken Arrow shop did not know if he could get the part and get the car fixed by next Friday my now new move date to Iowa.

I do have a brother in Iowa who is a retired auto mechanic, so after conferring with him for guidance, I did feel good about just staying with my original mechanic and paying them the $7000 plus tax. They did say we are putting in a new transmission for you, you do not want a re-manufactured one in your car, my brother did agree with that also.

So this is why I now have a GoFundMe page, for my journey home to Iowa, it will not be up long, but I do not have anything else I can do right now. I had to quit my Work From Home job for the medical insurance company on 3-7-25 They do not have an opening in the same company in Iowa at this time. Although I did apply for a Billing Specialist job at that office, and have not yet heard anything from them. So if anyone feels led by God again to give according to 2cor 9:7. I would greatly appreciate it, if you do not, and you just want to follow me on my journey with this blog, you can do that too. I hope this journey is encouraging you to trust God more even when you face big mountains as it is me.

God Bless you, and am doing well, and pressing on with God, as I know all you are doing too.

Sherril Miller