The Lord buys a truck?

Dear Family,

We want to share a “tender mercy of the Lord” with you that happened this last week. One of the widows in the ward asked Elder Earl if he could help her sell her deceased husband’s pickup.

Scott and another ward member spent a Saturday morning changing spark plugs and adjusting magical things in the engine compartment. Br. Hauck once was a mechanic for Ford Motor Company and has a garage full of tools to die for. Well, between these two men the truck started sounding pretty good. The next week Elder Earl and I cleaned it up inside and out. (I really should go into the business of detailing cars!)

We put the truck on Craig’s list and the very next day a man called and wanted to see it. Chuck, the man that called, drove it around and wanted it.

Elder Earl got the two parties together and, long story short, Chuck gave our widow friend a goodly amount of cash and answered her prayers for financial help. Chuck got a reliable low mileage truck to haul things around with and both parties were very happy.

Here comes the tender mercy: Elder Earl thought he had taken the truck off Craig’s List the night he sold it, but not so. He forgot. A week went by and then we got on Craig’s List to enter another car and saw the ad for the truck. We had thought there weren’t any more calls for the truck because we had taken off the ad, but in reality there weren’t any more buyers interested.

Chuck was the only one interested. Heavenly Father brought the ad to his attention the day we posted it. Chuck said he wanted to haul some dirt for his wife’s garden and didn’t have a truck to do it with. He just happened to look on Craig’s List that night and there was the ad.

What an all knowing all loving Father in Heaven. Prayers are answered. Our testimony grows daily in this work.

Will you spend this next week looking and writing down all the “Tender Mercies” you see in your life? I promise you; it will draw you closer to your Heavenly Father and Savior.

Love you all,

Grandma April & Grampa Scott