*WARNING* this is a long story....sorry!
We had quite the experience the other day. At 2:30am I was in the bathroom and I accidentally flushed my wedding ring down the toilet. It just slipped right out of my fingers and went straight in the bowl. It didn't even hit anything on the way, it went right down the middle. I was horrified as I just stood there and watched what happened. I gave a little cry and went to find Aaron and tell him what happened. He was pretty cool and collected, while I was crying my eyes out. I was especially upset because I knew we didn't have insurance on it. But believe me, I'm going to get it now!
We tried, without any success, to retrieve the ring ourselves. We decided we needed to call in a plumber. So we sat down and went through the phonebook. We called several because we wanted to see who we could get to come the quickest. Then we knelt down and said a prayer. We just felt like we should really do that. It's just that we have been going through so much lately, and this became the icing on the cake.
At 6:30 am a plumber called us back and was to our house by 8:00. We all kind of assumed that it was a lost cause to even try but we knew that we had to give it a shot or I would always wonder just a little bit. After he arrived other plumbers called and almost all of them said that it was a lost cause. We were very blessed to get the plumber we did. He had previously retrieved a ring for another women. Her ring was also supposed to be a "lost cause", but because of that experience Chaud plumbing wanted to come and give it a try.
He looked through the pipes and even cut into a few. When he removed the toilet he found that it had never been properly installed however many years ago and it was missing a flange piece. I think he felt really bad for us, so he offered to put in the piece we needed for free. He really was a good guy. We found out that he is the owner of the company and that he is a bishop. He really did try to help us out. He even called a local jeweler that he knows well and got them to give us a discount if we wanted to go look at rings.
So anyway, While he was repairing the piece he had to do something with the toilet to make sure it could all go together the way it needed to. He tipped the toilet at just the right angle and out tumbled a rock and my wedding ring right behind it! It was truly a miracle! Someone, years ago had flushed this rock down the toilet and no one ever knew about it. It was just the right size to get stuck, but to let everything pass on by at the same time. We knew our toilet ran a little slow, but we had no idea something like that was stuck in there. And to top it off, my ring was one of the things to get stuck with it.
We were thrilled and elated and we knew from that moment that Heavenly Father really does hear and answer our prayers. And even though it isn't always in our time frame, they do get answered. We kind of needed that lesson that day and it is definitely one that we won't be forgetting anytime soon. After Chaud left I think he was just as affected as we were because 5 minutes later his wife called because she too wanted to share in the blessing of it all. It was truly a miracle that day.
