Power of Prayer to a Child

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.