After the recent actions and works of Laurie and Curtis Peterson, Pam Anderson, David Pearson and others associated with them, I was left with my faith lost in most people. I'm still struggling with the ripples and waves that are still abounding all from their negative works in my life and the whole town of Nauvoo. So, you can imagine my surprise and awe at the story I am going to share.....
This past summer Jeremy and I were in the midst of dealing with problems with the "lovely" people mentioned above. We were living in our home in Nauvoo and I had placed my wedding ring next to our television in our living room one night. That was the last time I saw it. It was probably May or June. I searched everywhere. No luck. Finally the whole house situation came to a head and we decided to not sue the hell out of them because it would have been long and drawn out...and I was at my wits end anyway. The result of that was that we had to move out of our home in a short time....as we were packing, sorting, and moving, I looked again for my ring. We ended up not even being able to do a final check of the house or clean it or anything...in fact they took over our house without so much as a key or anything!!!! They just drove by and thought we were out enough for them to move in and did it! I went back one morning to finish up and get our family cat and they were there cleaning the house and moving their crap in!!! I got out and grabbed my cat and left. I thought that if by chance the ring was still in the house I would never see it again because I was sure if the Peterson's found it, they would pawn it. What else could I think? They had already stolen my home in a hostile takeover.
So for the month of August we lived in vacation condos outside of Nauvoo because we didn't close on our house in Carthage until Aug. 25th. Supposedly, the Peterson's closed on our house in Nauvoo on Aug. 13th but that was a lie too. Last I knew they still hadn't closed. So they made us move with five little boys two times in one month. Yeah.
When we got to our new house in Carthage, I checked all the boxes again as I unpacked but, had pretty much given up hope of finding it. So, fast forward to Wednesday, Nov. 18th. Debbie(MIL), Trisha(SIL), and I drove to Springfield to do some Christmas shopping. We had a great day of spending money and eating yummy food! lol. On the way home, Trisha made a comment about me getting a ring to put on my finger. So we started talking about my ring and what a bummer it was that it was still gone. Then Debbie said that she had seen a notice on the bulletin board at the Nauvoo laundry mat awhile back that had said: Lost Ring, call this number. Now in May my dryer broke and I was using the laundry mat until we got our new dryer. It was worth a chance. Trisha then called up her husband, Josh, and asked him to go to the laundry mat to get the number off the board for me to call (because we were driving home from Springfield.)
Josh drove to the laundry mat and the sign had been taken down. Then Debbie said that she thought that maybe she remembered the phone number and that I should try it anyway. So, I called the number and a lady answered. Turns out that she and her husband had found my ring at the laundry mat and had kept it all that time!!!! I WAS THRILLED! I couldn't get it until the next day but I was so excited. Of course I had Jeremy dig up some pictures of it to show the woman because I forgot about a row of diamonds when she was describing it....it had been awhile, okay!
I am just so grateful to know that there are people out there in the world still that aren't selfish and stupid. John and Debbie Allen had kept the ring all that time....THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! When Debbie Allen took it to give to my MIL, Debbie, she had even put it in a ring box and everything! wow. It makes me wonder if I would have done the same thing....if I didn't know whose it was.....and had made a sign and no one had called.....I think I would have sold it after that long......thank goodness they didn't.
So there is my good news for the day. Also on an unrelated note...I get to go to St. Louis tomorrow to see City of Joseph friends!!!! Ariane Cameron (Hall) is having her first baby and it is a girl so I'm gonna go down to her shower....it should be a BLAST!!!!! I can't wait!
