Lost and Found

duing the search for the key...


Thank God I found the key!

God is so amazing! Throughout all of the craziness of Charles leaving, his ONE car key got misplaced. YES, we only have one key for his car which I plan on fixing as soon as possible. Before leaving Charles told me he left his house and car keys in our Ashes of Obnoxious Teenagers" jar. The jar is of my favorite gifts from my family by the way :-) When I needed the key and dumped out the YEN in the jar, the key was not there. I looked and looked and searched and searched and no key anywhere. I was able to talk to Charles and he had no idea where the key was either. So...I had to figure out how to get a key made in Japanland before I head back to the States on Tuesday. As I headed to work on Friday, the key was on my mind. I was told a place called Kitame made keys, and so on my 35 min break I rushed over there. All I saw at Kitame was a run down building with piles of wood and no people...I went back to school and was thankful to be subbing with a student teacher who spoke Japanese. He called Kitame for me and after translation he told me they were on the Northern side of the island and could not make a key for me. Then, we called another Japanese locksmith. The student teacher explained the situation in Japanese and it was going to cost us 9,000 YEN to get the key made...that is around $90 in America!!! Holy Cow! However, I had no choice, so we set up for the dudes to come make the key right after school ended. During our 35 minute lunch break, I had to rush back onto base and get the 10,000 YEN to pay for the key. On the back to school I realized Charles' CD was still in the player. I have had more anxiety lately than usual, so I decided to slip in one of my favorite Christian CD's and say a prayer. After my prayer, I had a thought that I needed to keep looking for the key. I then opened up the ash tray in my car which I have not opened in over two years, and there was Charles' Skyline key. AWESOME!! Apparently during all of this your going, no your not mess one of us thought that would be a good place for the car key. Either way, Thank you God! It was such a tremendous load of my mind, and we saved the $90 as well!! Here is the key and its home, where it will stay!

Back where it belongs :-)