I’m Going Home To Mississippi Part 2

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May
10

     On the following Thursday, the same family member offered to allow me to use their car to run errands after my car accident. I think that was pretty bold of them knowing that I had just wrecked mine!LOL But, they are always willing to help me in any type of way they can. I just don’t normally except help from them or anyone else without first giving all my efforts to handle things myself. They and a couple other people contacted me offering to rent me a car for a while, but I declined. So, in no way was their messing with me about the fight intentionally harmful. A matter of fact, we always joke around and pick with each other. I was just in an extreme mood do to the fight nature that comes when preparing for an MMA fight.

     Anyways, a couple hours later I had to take the car back to them. While dropping me off to borrow a friend’s car so I could make it to training, they asked did I get all my errands taken care of. I told them that I didn’t have time to run any of them because I was home cooking my food so I could follow my plan for the fight. Making weight properly was the most important thing right now. A couple miles down the road they asked so, why didn’t you go get your stuff out of the car? I said I told you I had to make sure my food was cooked. That’s the only thing I’m concerned about, If I don’t make weight I can’t fight.” They said you should have went and gotten your mail out of your car!” I said you don’t understand I have nothing!! the car was the last thing I had! They can have my mail and my identity haha good luck with that! All my stuff is jacked up haha. The fight is all I’m concerned with!!

     I could tell they got mad but I was so serious and just being honest. I’ve told you guys that after the tragedy nothing seems to get me down at all, and I just laugh at stuff uncontrollably. So, while riding the laugh just came out of nowhere. But then, it played in my mind that I had been saying the last couple weeks all I had left was my car and immediately just as uncontrollable as the laugh, tears started to flow.

     Even though I had told them that I would move home, I honestly never thought I would actually have to do that. I’m a thinker I had already thought out a list of plans and it was the last on the list. My ex was the only person that got to know about everything that I had dealt with from the beginning. She would always say in the past it was amazing for her to watch me do things out of faith because she would have never been able to do it because it wasn’t logical. She would also say that it was even more amazing to watch first hand as it looked as I was about to drown in life, but was able to see so many times how God would save me right at the last second. And this has always been the case and has continued to happen!

     A couple months ago I was in over draft. I couldn’t figure out why because I budget money like no one else!! If I don’t need it I don’t buy it. And I’m not into material things at all. I found out that my old health insurance company had been drafting my account for a while after it had been cancelled. A nice check came from that to hold me over for my expenses. Last month about two weeks after my rent was due, knowing how much I was spending on food, tests, ect to get ready for the fight she said you can wait to pay me after your fight don’t worry about it. A couple of days later I got a call saying I have Income tax money “ That I didn’t expect to get!!” So I paid her and had money to live on. On the same day that I had my car accident, I was driving my car to Sterling, VA to train and prayed Lord please don’t let my transmission go out on me because it was sounding terrible and I knew if it went out I couldn’t pay to get it fixed

     When I went home to deal with the tragedy all those months last year and left my car there just sitting it was never the same. Easter Sunday right after my accident, I went to my Pastor trying to see if he could get some businesses to sponsor me because the fight would be airing on T.V. I told him about my car and money situation. He said he couldn’t help with the sponsors, and what it sounded it like I needed was benevolence funding from the church. He called a lady over to set it up for me. I smiled and told her no thank you, I was trying to see if someone wanted to take advantage of a business opportunity bc I was about to win the following weekend, and that I didn’t want to take anything from the church I want to be in a position to give to the church and that I will be fine.

     The next day I was called to pick up a check from the car insurance. So, that turned out to be a blessing so I came home to Mississippi for a week to find a car for a lot cheaper plus have the help of family and friends doing it. Even though I don’t talk to many of my family until I come home many of them are great and have helped me and helped shape me over the years to be the person I am today. Many also pray for my safety and success and would do anything in their power to help me if I allow them. It’s always amazing when I do talk to some of them because its like we’ve never missed a beat!

     So, I will find a cheap car, have some money from the insurance left over plus other money and live to train many more days until my ship comes in!! I hope to be back in MD by Monday going Ham!! But while I’m here I will enjoy my time with family and friend!!He showed up again Thank You Lord!!!