Sister Klinger was new in our ward. She had arrived in November with the rest of the snowbirds, those senior citizens who fled their cold climes for the warmer sunny Arizona winters. I don’t know much about her story, but she had apparently never been to the temple even though she was an energetic and participatory member from the get go. She took the temple prep classes over the winter and in late March prepared to enter the temple. The entire ward rallied around her and supported her desire to attend the temple.
Then the night before she her endowment appointment at the Mesa Arizona (Snowflake) temple, she received a phone call at 2 AM in the morning from police authorities up in Washington where she lived. Her car had been stolen from out of her garage.
Sister Klinger hung up the phone. Distraught and distressed she couldn’t fall back to sleep. Since she would be living out of the state for six months she had allowed her insurance to lapse. What would she do?
When the sun came up and it was time to get ready for the temple she was already exhausted. Should she reschedule her temple date? She spoke with the RS President, Sister Stevens, who counseled with her. She mentioned that incidents like this are not entirely unusual for people taking big steps, like baptism and receiving of their endowments. They are stumbling blocks Satan apparently puts in the way to hopefully discourage people from taking steps which will bring them closer to God. Sister Klinger listened and kept her temple appointment. It was a marvelous experience for all who attended.
Later that day the phone again rang at Sister Klingler’s home. Again it was the police authorities from Washington State. They had found her car unharmed.
As told to me by Sister Stevens on Easter Sunday April 2009
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