A few days ago, I lost my keys. I looked everywhere and couldn't find them. I was getting frustrated because I had a ton of things to do that day. Eventually, I accepted defeat and knelt down to say a prayer. The spirit told me to stop thinking of myself and so I sat down and started to do some sewing work that my husband asked me to do earlier. Meanwhile, Riley came in the room and told me that we should say a prayer. I asked her to say it and ask help to find Mommy's keys. Within a few minutes, I remembered that I had cut my fingernails (with one of the key rings on my keys) and I went down to the junk drawer and there they were. For some reason, I had put them in there after cutting my fingernails. I went back upstairs and told both my children that we needed to say a prayer of thanks because we found them. Eli's response was "What! You said a prayer?" I told him that when we can't do things on our own, we need to ask for the Lord's help. He thought about that for a minute and then we said a prayer of thanks.
A few days later, Eli told me that when he was in school, he couldn't find the red crayon. He stopped what he was doing and said a prayer in the middle of class. The Lord simply told him "dig." He dug around in his crayon box and found the red crayon.
As a parent, I know that this is such a simple story of receiving answer to prayers, but it also shows that Eli applied a gospel principle to his life. It may have changed my schedule around to not have my keys, but I gained something so much more.
Happy Halloween from the Koyle Family! Halloween is my favorite month because of cuties just like this. Riley was pulling funny faces and making it hard for me to get a picture of both of them smiling. With enough persistence, I got some perfect shots.
