Phone Adventures

The Settle Inn in Council Bluffs, IA

Our mobile telephone had a little adventure of its own this week. It must have gotten tired of just coming along on our adventures.

Wednesday evening we had a wonderful time in Council Bluffs with our friends there. The service at Lighthouse Temple was great and they put us up for the night in the Settle Inn. Thursday morning we headed back to Des Moines and stopped by the Open Bible national office for our mail on our way home. After we unpacked, I (Nancy) reached for the cell phone to make some calls. The phone was gone! I searched everywhere, but couldn't find it. The last time I remembered using it was in the hotel room in Council Bluffs. I quickly called the Settle Inn via Skype (the mobile is our only phone), but was told the maids had not yet returned from their cleaning for the day and I would have to call the next day to see if it was turned in. I was heartsick! I really liked that phone, we needed it, and besides, it was borrowed from our daughter-in-law! I posted that I had lost the phone on Facebook. Among other comments, Becky Jarvis wrote that she had found one at headquarters. I didn't think that could be our phone since I was sure I had left it in the hotel.

Friday morning I called the hotel. They didn't have any phones in the lost and found. I was sad, but we needed a phone, so we went to Verizon and got a cheap one as a replacement. I was told that this phone would be able to use the recharger we had, so I took it home. At least we were connected.

The weekend was a busy one with a family birthday party and a visit to our friends at the Church of the Open Bible in Iowa Falls. The replacement phone, however, didn't work with our recharger, and since I didn't have time to return to the phone store, it went dead. I started thinking about Becky's comment about finding the phone in the parking lot. Lo and behold, when I called her, she said it was the same kind as ours and the same color. We went to look at it and, yes, it was ours! Yes! Praise the Lord! So, tonight we returned to the phone store and had the original phone reconnected. Ah, that feels better! Wonder if the phone feels better, too?