Fourth Chapter

Move to New Mexico

The transition to New Mexico was kind of hard.  First, I was just starting the first grade of elementary school; and I just had this feeling I would not fit in to the school here in Rio Rancho New Mexico.  Even though I new we had to move or otherwise my dad would be out of work and that would not be could for middle aged couple with five children at all.  I slowly adapted well although I was so upset that I had to leave from all of my friends in Newberg Oregon.  It was a long three day trip that I won’t ever forget.  It was also very hard to leave my grandparents and all the rest of extended family.  I was really comforted by the people from the little Church we went and visited right after we got settle over at the KOA campground to live for the first six months to find out for sure if we are going to be for just a short time or for an extended amount of time.  Well God blessed us by keeping us in in New Mexico from December of 1995 until October of 1997.  So we loaded up the family and went back to Oregon for just a few months and came back over to New Mexico in March of 1998; and God even worked it out so that no one had bought our past house here in Rio Rancho so we just moved right back into it and lived there until May of 2000