Lesson Learned

So it all started when Randall lost the receipts for everything we had been purchasing for the house redo’s. We had bought hoses, sprinklers, weed whacker, stuff to hook up the washer and dryer (which have been amazing) and some tools. Our church needed those receipts to track everything and make sure we are staying in a budget.

We looked everywhere, vehicles, trailer, “the Lodge”, they were no were to be found. We decided to pray and ask for help. Now let me just say, in the past, every time I have needed help finding something all I've had to do is ask Heavenly Father for help and BAM, there it was. Not so this time. We continued to look and look and look. For over a week we looked. All I could think of was they had been thrown away or blown away (I’m tell’n you Kelly Dombrowski, Antelope Valley and Mackay have nothing on this place were wind is concerned). They were gone.

I was having a conversation with Heavenly Father one day walking to our work site and told him I didn’t understand, he had always helped me in the past, why not now? I answered myself (actually its how he talks back to me is through me) He said, or I said, there’s a lesson to be learned here. Then I got it! We need to be more careful; we are on the Lord’s work and need to treat it that way. We need to pay attention not be casual about our job here.

OK, so I got the lesson, but how to tell Randall he needs to be more careful without offending him. I had the opportunity this past week when he “misplaced” something else. I asked if I could tell him something without him getting upset. He said, “No”, I then proceeded to tell him. I’m bad; I pretty much do what I want. So I told him Heavenly Father had used the receipts as a lesson for us to learn to be more careful about misplacing things. Randall did understand, but said it was easier said than done with his Chemo brain. So we talked about some ways to help solve the problem.

I was still looking for the current misplaced item during this conversation and looked in a drawer both of us had looked in at least 4 times apiece. Guess what I found? Where we had already looked. Where we had already looked a total of at least 8 times! The receipts! Lesson learned. BAM! 

Thank you Heavenly Father...again.