This class has dealt me some massive blows, but it's due to my choice. I didn't figure out why I couldn't get my Google ads linked up to my new website, it just wouldn't link, and the support people at Shopify were clueless as to why the link was not working. I have been plodding along just trying to get my assignments done and thinking, why is this class pushing me through the wringer? I am learning that God is at the helm of the ship that I am on. He knows so much more than I do and so roll with the punches and know that He's got you're your back.
At the start of this semester, I signed up for two classes; I'm generally not very good at keeping an eye on my classes until the semester begins. This year, for some reason, my other class disappeared off my list, and so I figured that I'd take the one class because I'm not very tech-savvy and would need lots of extra time to get it right. I did not know then that there was a purpose to this incident; the Lord knew what would be happening in my life.
The family business that I work for lost the head of its household, which was a significant blow for our business. I spent many nights at their home, comforting the kids and trying to help his wife, as well as trying to keep working at the business. Luckily, we were only working three days because of Covid, and the travel back and forth from Gilroy and San Jose put some significant miles on the work vehicle that usually stays in town. Taking only one class made this event so much easier to work through and get things done; even when my assignments were late, they got done.
There have been many challenges in this class with technical challenges and not understanding how to do things, but I have great friends, and they worked with me and helped me push through the challenges the best that I could. This week an answer came to me through a fellow student as we are now working together as groups using the same platform. I couldn't link google to my site, and she said that I might not have a domain because it should work. She suggested that I buy it, but I swore that I did buy one when we were doing the lesson on getting a domain name. She had me looking for the receipt from that purchase and nothing, but I swore that chocolatedrift.com was my domain, and I didn't want to sign up for another one. Then a thought came into mind that I had signed up with a hosting group when we did that lesson, so I went back to the lesson and went through the steps, and there it was it had me signing up with HostGator the payment wasn't in my email, but I did have a PayPal receipt.
I contacted Shopify asking what I could do, they suggested transferring the domain name, I went to HostGator to see how I could transfer it, and they gave me a particular number. So back to Shopify, and I had help trying to do it, and guess what I couldn't because it is a new domain, and I would have to wait for 60 days. The next suggestion, have HostGator point the domain name to Shopify; then, in 60 days, you can transfer it.
HostGator had me verify my email address, and then I had to wait for 24hrs to point to Shopify.
Can you believe all this stuff? No, but the Lord is at the helm of this ship, and He knows what I need to learn. HostGator and Shopify have fantastic customer support; both groups are incredibly willing to help me get my website running correctly to do what I need to for my website assignments.
Today I get to play with the keywords on google ads that I never got the chance to previously; actually, I'll probably get better keywords since I made those up. A fellow student helped me find my mistake, and in the process, I gained some insight into things that might work for our family business and its current website. There is always a purpose to the things that happen in this life, and I learned this week in my self-reliance class that the Lord knows who I am and loves me. He is in the details of life, and things happen for a reason. This week started hard but has ended well, and I did okay in my website assignment; with a few tweaks, my website will be a good one. Yay!!
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