what you want is sometimes not what you get

So it seems as though the last two times I have tried to change my duty station they both failed miserably. The first time the guy that said he was going to trade with me changed his mind at the last min. and then the next time it was taken by someone else before I had a chance to put in my paperwork.
So I will just keep on praying that I get it. As the duty assignment I am trying for seems to be all the better. The most important aspect is that the deployments are only 6 months. For the army 6 months is really good. Then it would be the North west and closer to britta's family. So that would be helpful while I am gone. However the best and most important part would be the 6 month deployments. That would be so nice.
however It appears that even though when I pray I feel really good about it I am not going to get it. I do not quite understand what God is doing as it seems to be so much better in that I will get to spend more time with my family. However as hard as it is and seems to be to me. I will trust in God. I think that is what he is going to see if I am really willing to do. Before this most of the things I prayed about I get. I have very rarely had a prayer turned down. Maybe this is the time where I think everything is right and i feel that it is right to pray and ask about this and God just wants to see if I will still have faith in the end whether or not I will continue to pray and trust in him.
To those of you who are not separated from your families this may seem a trivial thing. to be gone for 6 months or a year the difference is only a few months. However that is huge. I love my family more than anything else in the whole entire world. I am such a happier person when I am around them. It is better to be with your family.
Maybe the reason I get to go to the year long deployments is so that we can develop as a family in a different way that God wants us to develop in. In the eternities 6 months or a year is not that long but when you are going through it. It seems like forever. I do not know and can not claim to understand the reasoning behind this. However I will perservere and drive on. It just really sucks to be sepereated from those you love for any lenght of time. espically if you think there is a way to avoid it.