So I began my hunt for housing with my friend, Shania, who had said she'd like to live with me. We drove up and looked at housing twice. The second time we weren't agreeing on anything. She thought we were but I was just being my passive self and saying how great all her ideas were even though I wasn't really sure what I thought. I wanted to live somewhere social for my first year of college and she wanted to live somewhere cheap. Finding the two together was nearly impossible. Soon we found ourselves throwing out our most important desire, a private room. But we were only going to be paying $200 a month at this place we had found, it was INCREDIBLY nice too. So we decided it was a must.
I just wasn't sure about it though. I started thinking about the things which I had decided I couldn't live without and this place just didn't have it. So I prayed about it. I prayed to know what to do. I prayed to have the courage to tell Shania what I would decide to do. And I prayed to have options open up and be available to me.
A few days later Shania and I were sitting at my house looking at housing to double check our decision and she got a call. She came back nearly in tears to tell me that our apartment plans had fell through because the lady had recieved a better offer. I had mixed emotions. Everything got scary again. Where was I going to live? But then I remembered that I had prayed for help and I was being answered.
The hunt for housing became our every thought! We searched and searched! Shania had found a place on KSL that was a very cheap town home. But I kind of just ignored her because it was basically the same thing we had just got out of. No private bedroom and not social. More for newlywed couples. So I began searching for something that would meet both our standards. I FOUND A PLACE!!! Old Mill Condos! I called right away but it went straight to voicemail. I called serveral other numbers but no luck. So I emailed them my number and prayed again. Meanwhile, Shania was determined to find someplace in the next hour. So we continued looking.
Several prayers and one hour later I recieved a call, "Hi, I recieved an e-mail to call this number if there happened to be an available apartment at Old Mill Condo's. We do have a few available. 4 private rooms and fully furnished. Is this Malori?"
"Yes! This is Malori! I was just wondering if my friends and I could come take a look at an available apartment."
"Does tomorrow at 1 work?"
"Perfect."
I called Shania, (who had left my house) and then Lucia, (who also had mentioned living with me,) and told them I was going to check out the apartment and asked if they wanted to join me. Roadtrip to Orem in less than 24 hours with my future roomies.
We headed up with prayers in our heart. We got there early and so we checked out another apartment but it gave us the he-be-ge-bees. Then we went to Old Mill and met a lovely lady named Jen who showed us through three apartments.
• Four private bedrooms
• Four private toilets
• Two shared showers/jacuzzi
• Deck to pool
• 2 outdoor pools
• 1 indoor pool
• Indoor sand volleyball court
• Next to several other apartment buildings
The first apartment she showed us was enough to get us excited about housing again but we wanted to see the others just in case. We walked into the second apartment, room 211, to find that it is being completely remodeled. New carpet, appliances, and paint! Then we find out that each private toliet is getting it's own private shower. But just in this apartment, not any of the others, because each apartment is privately owned. WE HAD TO HAVE THIS APARTMENT! Then the lady giving us tours said that if we signed today we would receive $50 off first months rent!
PRAYER IS REAL. PRAYER IS THE ANSWER. GOD WILL HELP YOU IF YOU WILL JUST TAKE THE TIME TO ASK.
•R.O.O.M•2.1.1•
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