Athelsenuch
Disciple of Prayer
Happy Thanksgiving everyone I hope everyone enjoy their day. I need a prayer request. Me and my mother are still looking for housing. We are currently searching for a two bedroom apartment the current apartment. We are in is a one bedroom. We share the one bedroom now we need our own space and we need a bigger unit and an apartment on the lower floor since my mom has a problem with her leg she has a prosthesis And every single day going up and down the stairs. It’s not easy for her, but she makes her work. She tries her best. Honestly, we live on the fifth floor and no elevators. It’s been very hard searching for an apartment. We haven’t had any luck at all. We have a section 8 voucher. For a 2 bedroom apartment. We got it in August 2024 and it will expire in December 12, 2024 all these months and we still haven’t found no apartment I have sent a letter out to Section 8 Customer Service so we can get an extension on our voucher because if this voucher expires, we have to go through another process of submitting documents and going to the office. It’s going to be a lot of work and also this is our third voucher and we still have not found an apartment at all and to top it all The apartment we live in my mother, has not been paying rent. We currently have a court order issue of the Housing Management states that they haven’t received some payments there’s been a few times when my mom pays for the rent they would give her a receipt back and then they would call her and be like they didn’t receive the rent money and it was really sketchy so my mom she decided to stop paying rent. We had rental assistance but right now. Things are kind of hard we still are going through the Court order we have a lawyer who is currently helping us. She’s a Free Lawyer she is helping us. She has been very helpful and I pray and hope that she continues to help us on. December 18. We have conference meeting about the Housing situation our Lawyer will attend for us and I pray and I hope everything goes well for us. It hasn’t been easy for my mom and I they raised my mother‘s rent a lot and when we requested for a meeting to discuss about my mother‘s rent, Section 8 Customer Service has stated that they cannot lower the price of my mother‘s rent because she is not a US citizen so there is nothing that can be done if she becomes a US citizen then they’ll probably be able to make the rent more lower but as of now the rent is high section 8 pays half of the rent and my mother pays half of well I believe the rent is like 1000 and 500 something dollars section 8 pays about like $600 my mother pays about 900 and some change but ever since the situation with the housing, my mom has stopped paying rent, but section 8, still pays their share ever since we move into this apartment the housing management hasn’t paint anything. They haven’t fix anything at all you practically have to keep on calling and begging for them to fix it. They always say they’re gonna come fix it but they never fix anything. My mom has to pay out-of-pocket money to have someone fix the house or she would do it herself. My mother is a hairdresser and times are hard. She barely gets customers and as of I I work as a cashier and I work as a security guard overnight. I have two jobs but I struggle to save my money. I what time when I get paid the money is gone. It’s like the money just flew away. I just buy food. I order stuff online and I don’t even need to buy any of those stuff but I just have to. It’s like if I don’t waste my money I’m gonna go insane. I don’t know if this is normal but this is how I honestly feel And I feel really bad because I’m not able to help my mom pay for rent. I’m not able to help my mom pay the bills she does everything and she only has one job and she is disabled. She doesn’t get disability tax. She doesn’t get Social Security income because she’s not a US citizen. She’s an immigrant And I wish that I can help her but it’s just like I can’t save my money at all as of right now, I only have five dollars in my savings account. It really has been a struggle, saving my money, but I’m praying and hoping also another thing. I’m very lazy. I am 21 years old and I don’t know how to cook at all. I’m just very lazy. I always like to sleep. I don’t like to do anything at all it’s just I don’t understand what’s going on with me. I just need this to stop. I wanna be able to save my money. I wanna be able to help my mom pay for the rent and help my mom pay bills I wanna be able to cook so when my mom comes home, she can rest. I’m just very lazy like my mom she does everything. The only thing that I do I do laundry I go to work. I go to school. I help her out sometimes but most of the times I like to sleep I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but I just have an addiction of sleeping even when I wake up I’m still tired. I can sleep for like 24 hours. I wake up. I’m still tired. My mom said that is not normal. I honestly don’t know what’s going on with me, but I hope everything is well with me and my mom and I hope everything goes great and I hope to get an extension for our voucher so we can continue searching for a two bedroom apartment. My mom prays all the time I struggle to pray honestly every single time when I pray, I just get distracted and I forget to pray like I just get distracted all the time to pray and when I try to read a Bible fall asleep, the Bible makes me sleepy I remember when I was a young girl my mom told me this when my mom used to pray or when she used to start praying I used to sing to try to distract her and she would get really upset with me, but she will continue praying till this day I don’t sing with my mom is praying, but sometimes my mom is listening to prayers. I would sometimes walk out the room because I wouldn’t wanna listen to it or I don’t know. I just don’t wanna be there. I would feel annoyed because it’s bothering me. I remember I believe last night I was sleeping and I don’t know what happened. I think I don’t know if it was a nightmare or what but something grabbed me on the neck and said something to me, but I forgot what I said and then I woke up well before I woke Up I was struggling to open my eyes and when I finally got my eyes open, it’s like my eyes was forcing it to close by itself. I finally managed to open my eyes like fully open them. I was home alone and I was scared so I decided to start praying and as I was praying, I was falling asleep as I was praying I was seeing something else like something was distracting me from praying then I decided to play the prayer that my mom would listen to every night and I fell asleep listening to it and I woke up and I was fine and it felt weird. I felt scared. I don’t know if it was sleep, paralysis, or what but it felt real, though I have filed citizenship for my mother. I want my mom to become a citizen, I want her to be able to have a green card and so far everything has been going well we have submitted all the documents and everything to the lawyer that is helping us right now. When my mom needs to do, she just needs to get there physical letter for the immigration and give it to the lawyer and once she has that will be able to submit the application for her to get a green card. I hope that everything goes well. I hope that my mother will be able to get a green card. She has been living in the United States for 22 years and she has never went back to Mali we are from West Africa in Mali but I was born and raised in the US. I never traveled anywhere before the year ends. I hope we get a good miracle. I hope I’m able to save money. I hope I’m able to stop being lazy. I hope I’m able to start learning how to cook because I know this will benefit me and I know not learning how to cook. I will regret it one day I pray that we will not get evicted. I pray that our lawyer will be able to help us on the conference meeting on December 18. I hope that Section 8 Customer Service be able to extend our voucher. I pray that we will find a nice two bedroom apartment and a great location for a great price. I pray that I’m able to save more money. I pray that I’m able to pass all my classes this semester. I pray that I’m able to pass all my classes in the next semester. I am supposed to be graduating in May 2025. I’m currently a senior in college and I want to graduate in May 20 25. That is my expected time for me to graduate. I hope when I graduate great job opportunities will be there for me. I pray that I’ll be able to save money. I pray that I’ll be able to get more hours at my job when I graduate because right now I’m not working that many hours since I’m in school. I pray that my mom will be able to get a green card so she can be able to go to Africa and visit her family I pray that she’ll be able to get Social Security income. I pray that she’ll be able to get disability income because she needs it. I pray that she’ll be able to get a new prosthesis leg I pray for me, my friends and family to be safe all times when we’re together or not together I pray for everyone that is reading my post to be safe and may God watch and protect them. I hope everyone enjoys their Thanksgiving. Thank you for reading my post and sorry for jumping from topic to topic I know my writing is a little bit disorganized because I’m just spewing what’s in my mind I don’t wanna forget what I have to say or what I want to say thank you