Another Little Miracle

Sister Blue and I are in the process of assembling new orientation booklets for the mission.  President Castro has been working for several months on updating this booklet.  It will replace the booklets the missionaries currently have, which they received when each arrived to the mission.  President plans to give these out as he conducts interviews all over the mission the next few weeks.  The booklet, 33 pages, contains important and valuable information for the missionaries, which they spend time studying during companion study time.

Late Monday afternoon I put together about 20 of the booklets which President needed for interviews the following day.  As Sister Blue was putting name labels on these, I asked her to open them and double check that the pages were in order [I hole-punch half the pages at a time, then assemble with the front and back covers, onto the binder comb].  I was worried that I may not have been paying close attention each time I put the pages together and may have put the second half on top. 

I don't know why or how it happens, but frequently one or two pieces of missionary mail, which we have forwarded with new mailing labels and blacked-out bar codes, come back to us the next day or two in the stack of new incoming mail.  There is no reason these should come back, but they do.  Monday morning, we had LOTS of mail, which is typical for a Monday. Tuesday, one of Monday's letters came back.  It was for Elder Rapier, who was on the docket to be interviewed by President that day.  Rather than forwarding this letter on, we just decided to paper clip it to his new orientation booklet.

When Sister Blue opened Elder Rapier's booklet to clip his letter to it, low and behold, the pages were out of order.  Instead of page 1 at the front, it began with page 17!  I had put the second half of the pages on top!  Sister Blue then recalled that at the end of the day Monday, she had not doubled checked all the booklets.  At that point, she re-checked all 20 booklets.  Elder Rapier's was the only booklet out of order.  Out of 100 or so pieces of mail, Elder Rapier's was the only letter that "happened" to come back to the office (even though it shouldn't have). 

Silly coincidence?  Maybe.  But I doubt it.