Right after Will got to Africa, Landon was missing him so William bought him a surprise with some zebra skin on it. We didn't know what it was so we just referred to it as "The Zebra Skin." He sent it home right before Mother's Day with a woman who said she would bring it to Landon when she came back to Utah. Almost every day, he asked me when his zebra skin was going to come. Every day for 3 weeks, I said I didn't know and we kind of gave it up for lost because we hadn't heard anything from the sister who brought it back with her. Still, every so often, he would ask me when his zebra skin would get here. This last week, I received a phone call from an unknown number and the voice told me that she was a humanitarian missionary who had just returned from Zimbabwe and that she had a package for me. Well she brought it and while Landon was tearing it open, the mail came... with a letter from Will for Landon and a Zimbabwe 10 Dollar Bill and an apology that the zebra skin had never come. The Zebra Skin was a leather-covered Book of Mormon with a zebra skin inlay in the shape of the continent of Africa.
That is so cool. I hope he treasures this always.
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