A teenage girl found a girl's best friend when she discovered a 3.85-carat diamond in an Arkansas state park.

Oklahoma City resident Tana Clymer found the jewel on Saturday afternoon at the Crater of Diamonds state park in Murfreesboro, Ark. The park features 37 acres where visitors can hunt for precious stones and keep their discoveries. Almost 400 diamonds have been found in the park, but the size and quality of Clymer's find is rare.

"I thought it was a piece of paper or foil from a candy wrapper," Clymer told THV11. "Then, when I touched it, I thought it was a marble."

The yellow diamond is the size of a jelly bean and shaped like a tear drop. The 14-year-old has named the stone "God's Jewel."

"I think God pointed me to it," Clymer told the local TV station. "I was about to sprint to join my family, and God told me to slow down and look. Then, I found the diamond."

Clymer and her family planned the trip to the Crater of Diamonds after they heard about a boy finding a 5.15-carat diamond in the park in July.

A diamond similar to the one Clymer found sold for $30,000 in 2006.

"I kept asking my dad if I was dreaming," Clymer said. "I cried. I couldn't believe it."

"It's up to her what she wants to do with it," Amanda Giordano, Clymer's mother, told NewsOK. "She was so humbled by all of it. She said a prayer right after she found it."

According to Giordano, Clymer will likely sell the jewel and save the money for college. Bill Henderson, assistant park superintendent, said Clymer might save the jewel for a ring.

Over 75,000 diamonds have been found at Crater of Diamonds park since John Huddleston, former owner of the land, discovered the first diamond in 1906. Crater of Diamonds became a state park in 1972. In 1924, a 40.23-carat diamond was found in the park; it remains the biggest diamond ever unearthed in the United States.

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