I went to LEMI training and am still recovering. 🙂 In a good way. I will post pictures that I took at the training soon. I took them with my cell phone which aren’t as great as pics I can take with my camera. The training was AWESOME! I learned so much and I am so grateful that our commonwealth school paid for most of the training. It was so fun. I will blog about  my musings soon. But now we have our family Saturday work to do and it’s slow going with a toddler who wants to undo our work.

Anyway, I am so excited because the Youth for Freedom people found my camera! I left it there at the camp when I took my kids last month. I last remember setting it down in the restroom on the counter. I didn’t do my routine of normally keeping it in its case attached to my belt loop because I chose to wear pants without belt loops that day.

I’ve learned so many lessons. #1 Label your things. You know what is yours but if you are going out and about, nobody else knows that it’s yours. It makes me think of Jesus. How do other people know that we are His? Do you have something on you that marks you as His? Would people who found you who didn’t already know you know that you are Christ’s? Is his image engraven on your countenance?

#2 Don’t change your routine when it’s working for you, especially when you are gone away from home and doing/visiting something new. I am always going to wear my pants that have belt loops when I plan on using my camera.

#3 God hears my prayers but he works in mysterious ways. Right after I lost my camera He gave me a dream that someone I met there named Misty was talking to me and then my camera appeared in the air. When I woke up I called my sister-in-law, Misty’s friend, to get Misty’s number so I could call Misty. Misty said “Yes, when I was there I heard someone announce that they found a camera.” I felt like a detective as I took down the names of all the people who she said were there and I had all their phone numbers because they were all my friends but one person. I hunted down a friend of a friend to get that last person’s number. I called them all and nobody had a clue. Just last night I asked God, “Why did you let me have that dream if it just led to a dead end?” I am still wondering. Maybe it was just so I could get to know Misty. She was at LEMI training. She asked about my camera and told me, “I get the feeling like your camera is still at the camp.” What a savant she is!  I talked with her more and shared the title of a book I am reading that maybe she needs to know about.

#4. When you lose something, don’t give up hope, but don’t let it ruin your life. As I heard from Cristie Gardner at the LDS holistic living conference say, “If some desired blessing doesn’t come right away, let go of your hold.” Last night I asked God to send me another dream telling me where the camera was. I asked him to let me know if it was in a garbage (and that’s when I would stop hoping to find it) if he would just give me a dream showing the camera in a garbage. I woke up this morning, remembered my prayer, and almost started crying when I remembered my wish and that no dream had come.Then during my morning scripture study I prayed that God will tell me a clue of where it was and then I asked Him to lead me to a scripture to answer me. The scripture I turned to was Jeremiah and had nothing to do with a lost camera. I was sorely disappointed.

So just today I had decided to let go of my hold of it. I would miss the  precious pictures and video I took, but I was counting my blessings of all the things I have still like my good health and all my family and their health.  I was planning on attracting a iPhone that would allow me to take even better pictures and video. And then lo and behold, I get an email saying they have it!

The night is always darkest before the dawn, so don’t give up! The bright day is just around the corner!