Oct 17, 2010

Did you ever lose something really important to you?

I am sure I did but apparently it wasn't important enough to make a permanent memory of it in my brain. However I did find something that was probably pretty important to someone else or at least it would have been to me had I lost it. I had gone to feed the cows and at the time our hay baler was one that made small round bales. When stacked they would form a triangle and so we would have to climb up to the top and take one of the bales and push it off so that it landed in the manger below where we would spread it out for the cows. That particular night as I slid down off the stack (the preferred method of getting down) I got to the bottom and something hit me in the back. As I searched for what it was I found a silver dollar. Silver dollars were not at all common even though I knew what they were since I had been given one for memorizing the current prophet (David O McKay) and the quorum and the 12 apostles and assistants to the quorum of the 12. So I already had a silver dollar but was glad to find a second one. We could never discover who had lost the coin and figured it was probably because they didn't want us to know that they had been playing on the haystack. It was years later after I was married when Lynn and I were discussing it and he asked if he could have it since he didn't have one and I had two. I gladly gave it to him.