Savannah and the "Hot Surface Ignitor"

An inspiring e-mail from Rob:

When we first bought our house, we were still living at the other house. We were bringing stuff over here little by little. One Sunday we came over to the house to find that it was freezing inside. The thermostat control actually showed 40 degrees, but the temperatures were on the way down because the furnace had stopped functioning. We didn't want the pipes to freeze in the new house, so I started trying to figure out what was wrong with the furnace. I spent quite a bit of time trying to find the problem, but I only managed to get myself frustrated. I didn't really want to call someone to come out because it was on Sunday and I also the last time I called an HVAC guy, it wasn't a good experience. I came back upstairs and told Jen that I didn't know what else to do. We were just about to leave when Savannah asked if we could just say a prayer to fix it.

Not wanting to ruin her faith in prayer, we all knelt down and said a prayer that we could fix the furnace. Savannah then went back down with me to help me fix the furnace. I took the cover back off the furnace and immediately my flashlight shined on the problem. I distinctly remember my eyes being drawn to a certain part of the furnace that I had not previously looked at. It happened just like that. The prayer was said, we walked down, I took the cover off, and then I shined the light directly at the problem. I didn't even know what the name of the part was yet, but the light shined directly at this small part. When I looked very closely, I could see a very small black line across the ceramic. Right away I was sure that this was the problem, not because I was an expert on HVAC, but because this was an answer to Savannah's faithful prayer. I called Home Depot and described the part to someone, who told me that it was the hot surface ignitor and by the time I tracked one down and installed it, I had no doubt that the furnace would work when the new hot surface ignitor was installed. After replacing the hot surface ignitor, the furnace functioned properly. This taught me a lesson about having child-like faith and the Savior's counsel to "ask and ye shall receive".