#1
Sunday night we were in Orem having dinner at la casa de mi madre, and had a Redbox movie that needed to be returned. I'm not familiar with the Redbox locations in Orem, so I drove all the way from her house, on the Orem/Provo border, to 800 North searching for a dang Redbox. I finally found one at the 800 N. Walgreens. I jumped out of the van and returned the movie. Went to get back in the van and found myself locked out of it. It was running, lights on, my purse on the passenger seat, etc. I was mad and muttering Utah Mormon swear words under my breath. Oh my friggin' heck.
There was this lady standing at one of the machines looking for movies and I thought nothing of it. I went inside Walgreens so I could call someone to help me. I called Nils and asked him to call the police and ask them to send someone to come unlock the van. That took a few minutes, and when I went outside, the lady was still standing at the Redbox looking for movies. I was thinking, geez, how long does it take? I went back inside Walgreens to kill a few minutes, and when I came back out, she was STILL standing there looking for movies. Good grief, woman, I was thinking. I stood by my van, waiting for someone to come rescue me. A few more minutes passed, and the lady finally had her handful of DVDs and went to get in her Jeep, when I noticed her purse sitting on top of the Redbox machine. I said, "Is that your purse?" She ran back to get it, saying, "Oh my (expletive), thank you SO MUCH!" over and over, and, "God bless you!"
Then she said, "Hey, are you locked out?" I said, "Yeah, do you know how to break into cars?" Well, out jumps her husband and gets a car-breaking-into kit out of the back of his Jeep! The lady said, "We don't use this for illegal purposes, he's a maintenance man." Ha ha! The guy had the slim jim in the window, and up rolled a cop. I thought he was there for me, and the guy stopped and said, "I'm gonna let him do it, 'cause then he'll be liable for breaking anything." The lady ran over to the cop and asked if he was there to unlock my van. He said he was there for something else, but he unlocked the van in like 4 seconds anyway.
It was so weird. But I learned not to judge people who stand at the Redbox forever, because it could very well be that they would be willing to break into your car for you. Or go talk to cops for you. I was thankful for them. You just never know, ya know?
Oh, and Nils didn't call the cops, but he did show up just as I was backing out. He missed the whole thing.
#2
We've been in the process of refinancing our mortgage for about 3 months. We have done everything on our end that needs to be done, the loan officer has done everything on his end, and we have just been waiting and waiting while nothing has happened.
We seem to need somewhat regular lessons on having faith to pay tithing. We've had multiple instances of direct blessings coming from paying tithing. We always pay our tithing and have testimonies of it, but sometimes we forget a month and get behind and have to play catch-up. We had a bit to catch up on, and I had a feeling that if I just had faith and paid the whole amount that the loan would go through. I wrote a check on Sunday, and today got an e-mail from the loan officer saying we can close this week. Coincidence? I think not.
Tithing=Blessings.
