Midnight Visitors-Seen and Unseen

The night we arrived in Provo was fraught with excitement.  After stopping to see everyone at Grandma Penny's we went to Mawmaw's where we were staying since it was such a full house at Grandma Panny's.  We unloaded, got everyone ready for bed and were just settling down for the night.  I had Kyle in the back bedroom trying to get him to sleep when we all heard a loud beeping sound.  We thought it was the smoke detector going off but Don pushed all the buttons and the noise was still going off.  We looked around and found another monitor on the counter upside down in the cover another smoke detector.  It was flashing, beeping and read 111.  It was a carbon monoxide detector.  We don't have any gas appliances in Logandale so we were a bit perplexed as to what was going on.  We opened the windows and the doors, Don pulled the batteries out of the monitor and out then back in, we took it outside and the numbers went down and then brought it back in and the numbers went up.  We decided to google it to see if that told us anything.  Google said that water heaters that ran off gas could cause problems so we figured that could be the only thing that would cause a problem.  We called Grandma Panny who told us to call the fire department.  She asked Mawmaw while we were on the phone about the monitor and Mawmaw didn't know she had one.  I got every one out of the house, called the fire department, went back in to get my purse, Kyle's bag and Cayden's diabetes stuff, in case we couldn't go back in the house for a while and then we waited in the driveway.  Kyle sat in the car and watched the Ipad completely unaware of the excitement going on around us.  The fire department and ambulance got there around 20 minutes later and they checked out the house.  The fireman said that it was probably a false alarm before he went in the house but then he came out and said that it wasn't.  His detector started going off at the door and the reading got higher the farther he went into the house.  He shut off the gas and then called the gas company.  The paramedics asked us if we felt ok and waited with us outside while the fireman was inside.  After the fireman came back out he told us not to spend to much time in the house and just to wait for the gas company to come.  He told us that after about 4 hours exposure to those high levels we would not have woken up.  Then they left.  While we waited for the gas company we decided that a prayer of gratitude was definitely in order and that we needed to thank Heavenly Father for the protection that he blessed us with.  We were quite convinced that Pawpaw put that monitor in the house and made it go off while we were there.  Had Mawmaw been there by herself she probably would not have heard it.  The gas company got there about 30 minutes later and found that the leak was coming from the waterheater and that the a/c unit was not vented right and was pulling the carbon monoxide into the unit and circulating it through the house.  He tagged the unit and told us not to use it, told us to call a plumber in the morning to get it replaced and then he left.  We were all a little bit shaken up and decided that it would make us all feel better to sleep upstairs that night.  We all finally got to bed around 2am.  We know that we were protected and blessed that night.  We know that there were angels there guarding our family and that we were witness to many miracles.  We did find out the next day that when my cousin Matt lived in Mawmaw's basement right after he got married that his wife bought the monitor and he put the batteries in it.  That was about 2 years ago though and we still don't know how it ended up on the kitchen counter.  We still think it was Pawpaw.