Last night we had a power outage. We were right in the middle of dinner when it went out. Little Madie, totally unaffected, just kept shoveling her Mac-n-cheese into her mouth and Slade freaked out! Thanks to his mother who thought it was a good idea to take him to see New Moon he was scared that vampires and werewolves were going to come get us. Then he ran to the TV (which we had explained to him wouldn’t work) and freaked out again saying “oh no now we have to buy a new TV too”. It was a very traumatic night!
So when it was closing in on bedtime and our spotlight was losing battery power we decided to put the kids in their PJ’s and go for a little drive so we could charge the spotlight and hopefully calm Slade down. We drove up by the temple, which was dimly lit from their generator power. Ben and I were talking about how weird it was to see the temple not lit and Slade says “It still looks pretty though”. It was so sweet to hear the love that he has for the temple in his little guy testimony. We drove around a little while longer until he had dozed off and then headed for home. When we got there the power was still off so we lit a few candles and all 4 of us crawled into our bed (again, I am so grateful for a king sized bed). Slade again started telling Ben that he was scared and then said “we better call Jesus”. I am so grateful that he knows that when he is scared or needs help that he can turn to his Savior and get the help that he needs.
I am grateful for the blessing that we received last night of no power, to put aside the things of the world and be able to see and hear what we needed to hear. I am also grateful that our Heavenly Father sends us these amazing little spirits to teach us and to help us remember what is really important.
