Xera

It is not In my inventory, and when i try to talk to Vicar, his response is "any luck on that task i gave you" and the only option i have to reply with is "I haven't found the Journal"(Leave Conversation)

I looted the safe where the journal should be before i acquired the quest from vicar. now when i go back to the safe where it should be, its empty and the journal cannot be found anywhere. has anyone else encountered this? if so how'd you fix it or are you stuck too?