Answered Prayers

Last Friday, I picked Ken up from work on his lunch break and we flew to Burley to buy temple clothes since we now have a temple here in Twin but they don't have a clothes rental place in it. We got our new clothes and wanted to buy a couple other items that we needed to show our recommends for. Ken dug in his wallet and then said to me, "Oh yeah, you have the recommends." I looked in my purse and said, "No, you have our recommends." Ken says, "Oh, right, they are in my scriptures." This is a great place for them to be because Ken LOST his scriptures TWO WEEKS AGO! Now we are both stressed. This is the second set of scriptures he has lost in the last year. The first was the scriptures he used on his mission so they were well marked up. The second set he got for Christmas last year to replace the first set. I searched everywhere in the house and my mom searched her house. They were no where. Ken decided that they could be in one of three churches; the church building we just moved from, the church building we just moved to, or the new stake house across town that we met in when they divided our stake. On Sunday after church, he headed out to search the churches as a last resort before we canceled our recommends and went in for new interviews. Knowing this was a wild goose chase, I stayed home to take my traditional Sunday nap. The old building and the new building turned up nothing. The stake house across town was a long shot but he decided to check there anyways. He looked all over the building and finally saw a Bishop walk out of his office. Ken stopped him and asked if by any chance a set of scriptures had been turned into the Lost and Found. The bishop stuck out his hand that just happened to be holding a set of scriptures that looked exactly like Ken's and asked, "Do they look like these?" Ken quickly grabbed them and looked inside. Sure enough. his name was engraved on the cover. He opened the pocket of the case and there were both of our recommends. Ken said "Yes!" The bishop laughed and said that his wife has just handed them to him a few minutes before and that he was on his way to figure out what to do with them. So, with our recommends safely back in our possession, all I have left to do is hem our new clothing and we will finally get to attend our very first temple session in our brand new temple. And Ken is relieved to not be getting new scriptures for Christmas again this year!