I haven’t been active on Hive for about 2 weeks now, let me gist you about the reason…
So I had a really crazy and miraculous week(last week) but I will explain. Honestly, nothing else can explain what I went through last week, it is beyond comprehension. It was a rollercoaster of all the emotions you could ever think of ; Happiness, sadness, fear, excitement, anxiety, surprise, confusion, and so on.., I went through it all and I am so glad I can share this on hive, with everyone.
So, I lost my phone(A forest green coloured Redmi note 8 pro) 14 days ago, that's exactly two(2) weeks from now. It was on a beautiful Sunday , after an amazing sermon, where I prophesied blessings into my life in the new week. I prayed with faith that good things will come my way in the week that was about to begin.
I was going home from church and took a cab with @starstrings01 . I was not pressing my phone during the journey because my battery was quite low. I cant exactly recollect if I dropped it in my bag or pocket. To cut the long story short, my people, I got home and I couldn't find my phone, I searched everywhere , then I knew my baby was not with me🥺. At that moment, I didn't know how to feel, I was just there. I wasn't crying or panicking, my heart was not even beating fast, I was just calm. Just that, a million questions were running through my mind at once, because I didn't know exactly how it happened.
We started calling my number and it kept ringing and ringing , but no one picked it up. I was just praying and wishing that I didn't put the phone on silent. Myself and @starstrings01 went back to the bus stop, if we'd see the cab that took us, but that was to no avail. Then, at a point, I called my number again, It was ringing and boom! someone cut the call and the network provider said the user was busy.
Busy as in how?😭
I tried my number again and I heard something like 'the number you're trying to call is currently switched off. It was at this moment I knew that the phone has been picked up by someone who has no intention of returning it. Fun fact: I still didnt cry, hard girls do not cry yunno😌
We kept calling the number but it was switched off every single time we tried. So I just zeroed my mind that it was gone, and that was like a hard reality, because there is a lot on my phone and I just didnt want to start thinking of those really important things, else, I will start feeling so bad and might eventually cry. Honestly though, there was this calmness in my heart, I just had the feeling that everything would be fine. It's not even like I had one money somewhere to get a new phone at the moment, but I just kept cool and believed in God, and I knew the sunday prayers would not go in vain too.
Later that night, my cousin and her friends were still helping to reach my line, then at a point, it rang and someone picked up. The guy identified himself as ‘Ismail’ and they begged him please, give the phone back. He said we should meet him at a particular place the next day, that he would send his own number after they end the call. That was the agreement, but Ismail did not actually send any number after the call😭😭 Ismail dey use us play chess😂😭 They even tried my number immediately after the call, but this man had turned the phone off.
We tried reaching him with my line the next day, but my number was switched off all through. I was actually very heartbroken and disappointed because I was optimistic and hopeful for a moment, and then he took that little hope from me, it pained so much and I knew the guy was playing us.
I retrieved my line about two days after the incident, because people had to be able to reach me, I own a business. Then, something happened on that same day I retrieved my line. I met my pastor in church when I went for rehearsal, and miracously, he gave me 20,000 naira. It was actually ‘miraculous’ because it’s not even as if he knows me like that, till now, I feel the whole thing was just God’s doing, because there is no other sane explanation. Honestly, I wasn't expecting that kind of blessing last week, I was so grateful and happy and I started seeing the whole phone issue as 'a blessing in disguise'
Luckily for me, I got the phone back about 4/5 days after I lost it but that was still a miracle too, because these people didn’t have the intentions of returning the phone. Funny enough, there was no password or lock on my phone, so they literally had access to anything and everything but luck was on my side because I don’t think they knew so much about phones. The whole experience was just so crazy, I don’t even know where to start my explanation from.
We (My cousin and I) used my Gmail to lock the device(on my PC). Then we put her number on display and begged them to return the phone. I’m intentionally using ‘them’ because we later learnt that about 3 people were involved with the phone. So, we got a call from a strange number the next morning and we immediately deduced that it was them. He ended the call after a word or two and we called the number immediately after that but the line was off already. I was exhausted at that point, I literally gave up because the stress was getting too much.
At a point, he picked up and asked for our location and we told him, and also begged him to return the phone, and he said he would bring it after taking his bath. The communication was not that swift because the guy we spoke to was an Hausa guy. We called about 30 minutes after but the line was off again, I was like 'is this guy whining us right now😭'
Then boom!, we got a call that evening that we should come and collect it at an agreed location . Thank God I was with @starstrings01 , my cousin and another friend of mine, we just left immediately. We got to the agreed location and this guy’s number and mine were both switched off😭😭. You can’t imagine how frustrated I was
like, guy, if you want to carry the phone, do it with your full chest, no dey play me like ludo😩🥹
After about 20 minutes of waiting, this bike just parked beside us like he knew us before. I’m guessing he had gone through the phone and seen my pictures, so he was sure I was the owner of the phone. He was an Hausa guy, a bike man precisely. According to him, they were 3 that saw the phone and one of them was saying they should sell it but he was the one saying they should not sell it. Well, I still want to believe that the whole experience was a miracle, maybe God just touched their hearts or something, because it is inexplicable.
They could have sold it, even to get small money and share among themselves, but then, this happened. He gave me my phone and honestly, I felt like I was dreaming, never thought I was going to see my baby again😭😭. We appreciated him though, and we went back home. My battery was down at the time, so I got home and charged the phone with excitement, but I received a great shock when my phone came back on.
An Hausa woman was the new wallpaper😂😭, I saw different pictures of the man that gave us the phone, together with his people😩, almost all my apps were already deleted😭, they had logged in their own WhatsApp and Facebook accounts. Although I was truly grateful and I still am, I was like ‘is this playing?’. I was just praying that should not touch my files, and thank God, they didn’t.
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I didn’t know where to start from,lol😂. I was even so happy that they didn’t wipe my phone. Half my gallery was gone (though I got the deleted items back, thank God for the thrash bin feature on my phone). I used the rest of the week to reminisce on how eventful the week had been. It was really crazy, and honestly, I am not even exaggerating.
See the amount pictures and videos that were deleted😩
I had been through a lot mentally and all the ‘-lly’ you can ever think of😂😭 and my phone had also been through a lot, physically(It had new cracks when I got it back). When I say it has been through a lot, trust me, it has. It was involved in an accident once and I had to fix it back, I will write something on that in my next post.
The lost but found phone☺️
Then on Sunday ,exactly a week after the incident I was gifted an IPhone 7 by someone really special😌☺️. That was when I realized fully that My whole experience was indeed a blessing in disguise!!! and I am still praying for everyone that blessed and helped me through that time.
And meet my new baby!!😊😊❤️
I have missed this space so much and yes, I am fully back now. AND BETTER!😎
Thanks for reading🥺♥️