a lesson.

So I basically have the best brother ever. He is such a good example to his sisters and friends. Jonathan recently had a bit of an incident happen to him with one of his classmates at school that turned into a positive lesson for him but also for me.

For those of you who know my brother you know the kind of person that he is. Funny, kind, has a good heart, and is very forgiving. This particular thing happened a few months ago at school with a boy in his class. My brother had a question for his teacher and went up to talk to him/her. When he went back to his desk his brand new 4S IPhone was gone. He thought some one was playing a cruel joke on him, but turns out.......no joke, just cruel. His IPhone was stolen.

To make an extremely long story short, the police were called, and my dad drove to his school and they filled out a report.  My dad who is a part time computer wiz and full time detective...(pretty sure he works for the CIA or something) called the phone company to see if there was some way to track the phone... turns out after a few attempts they were able to, but the phone was not at the school. No. It was a few blocks away.......is your heart pounding yet? Because mine is.  My dad tried to explain to the police man what the tracker was and what it was telling him, apparently the cop was old and doesn't understand this modern technology they have on the new phones.  So my dad said he was going to follow it and it lead him to a house that was on the market, I guess for sale, because it had a padlock on the door. My dad waited for the cop but couldn't wait any longer. So he had my brother go around back of the house while my dad went up to the front door and knocked. Two people who seemed to be the parents opened the door and my dad said he was just there to get back the IPhone that was stolen from him. The boy shortly came to the door an immediately handed over the phone and said he found it in the hall and that he was going to figure out who's it was and give it back.

OK OBVIOUSLY THAT IS BULL CRAP! He tried feeding my brother this bull crap story about how he was the honest one in the situation. Ok really kid?? As the police officer pulled up the boy was crying and his father was clearly upset yelling at him wondering what the crap his son had just done.

 The officer pulled my bother aside and asked him what he wanted to do with the situation....


My bother could have pressed charges, which would not necessarily been the wrong thing. This kid needed to pay for what he had done.

My brother thought about it for probably all of 10 seconds and decided he didn't want to press charges. He wanted to forget the whole thing and just get his phone back.

OK! I WOULD HAVE PUNCHED THE KID IN THE THROAT!

But my brother didn't. Not only did he not press charges. But he didn't tell anyone who he was, he didn't talk bad about this person, give out his name, or try to get even. Wow.

I had something happen a couple weeks ago, that was in no way this severe, but I made a choice to do something that  I thought was the right thing to do.  But it didn't make the situation better like it should have It just kept getting worse and more and more frustrating.  I was building up more and more frustration and anger towards this person, I felt used and walked on.  But then I thought of my brother and what his reaction was in his situation and I wanted to be like that. I just said a prayer that my frustration and anger would go away towards this person and that I would be able to forget it and move on.

I'm not writing this post to make me look better, in fact I deleted paragraphs that were just flat out immature and the complete opposite of the point I was trying to get across. I just wanted to try to make something positive out of the situation, and thought maybe someone who reads this blog might have similar feelings right now and might help them. Why is it so hard to do the right thing sometimes?

Its just been a hard few weeks, just feel down, emotional, walked on.... just not great. But I'm thankful for a great husband and family and a Heavenly Father who can cheer me right up! Love you guys. Thanks Jonathan.