In exactly 14 days it will be 6 years ago we lost our kids to a honorific accident.
This week Jordon had a bike accident...
Just scraped and bruised...
BUT...
It could have been a whole lot worse...
Angels...
I love those guys...
BUT...
Our family keeps them pretty busy...
Becky usually brings Jordon out on Wednesdays.
Larry and or Larry and Becky will come get him Saturday.
Becky was with Syd at a State wide soccer match.
Larry came out to get Jordon so they could go to a Neilson reunion.
Larry was just about here...
The front left tire of his pick up came off...
Lug nuts that weren't fastened down tightly when the tires were changed and rotated.
A semi was passing him at the time and the tire bounced off the truck and back to Larry several times.
Then as the truck passed the tire went across the medium and the south bound traffic and a quarter of a mile up the road.
Larry...
kept the pick up going straight and right side up.
(Can you imagine all the angels it took for that miracle?)
Larry is a good driver and very good under pressure.
But there had to be a higher power here.
He called Stan...
Stan got the Hook truck and with Jordon went to gather up son and dad...
They took the truck back to Big O...
Amazingly enough the pickup could be repaired that afternoon.
The management at Big O were terribly sorry for the mishap...
Took full responsibility...
Will repair it without charge.
As we fasted -- our fast was one of gratitude...
This was so similar to the accident 6 years ago...
My heart is full that life goes on...
We could have had some horrible injuries and or a couple of funerals...
Jordon's arm...You really can't see it, yuck!
He got his right shoulder left hand and left knee...
He will be hurting for a bit...
Stan's comment was the highway is a very dangerous place...
We wheel down the road...
Not thinking about driving much...
This last week and the next several weeks ahead will be highway for me...
Ogden on Monday to take Angie down to do her volunteer work...
Tuesdays is my widow day...
Wednesday and Fridays are therapy on my back AGAIN!
Thursday is our temple day...
I will try to be alert...
My widows...
I love these ladies...
I learn so much from them..
There is so much need...
I could spend all day everyday just helping them.
I wish VT and HT would get a clue!
My dearest friend Luana Barrett...
My 'Grin and Bare It' lady...
just turned 94...
She had a mini stroke...
and a sever bladder infection.
she cannot stay alone anymore.
Barbara, Luana's daughter called me...
We talked...
then I got the call...
They had moved her to Autumn Haven in Rupert.
Luana has to be broken hearted.
She loves her little log home Joe built for her.
My visits will now extend to Rupert.
Stan and I were home teachers to Beth Jones for years before our mission...
She wrote to us while we were on our mission.
Her grandson Bo got his mission call to Orlando.
We oriented him and followed his progress.
He got home this last February...
Friday night his parents brought him out for a visit.
Good memories were shared.
This is a good family.
Harvest...
another miracle...
We have very few acres of wheat this year...
Ben has been doing it pretty much on his own.
Steve and Dad are doing other things and supporting Ben where he needs help.
They haven't even brought wheat into the yard graineries.
Becky has a few pictures...
BUT without the miracle of timely rain storms we wouldn't be harvesting any thing.
Oh how the blessing flow into this family...
Dani
Jordon
Olivia on the front porch...
Jordon and his friend McKala (?)
Never tire of pictures of a combine in the field with the mountains behind it.
Beautiful...
I know there are struggles out there...
So many have trials the size of Texas.
YET...
In finding the Lord in those hard times is what we need to refine us and make us Celestial.
I pray that we will stand firm together...
Love with Christ like Love...
That is what will pull us through these hard times...
When you take the path that climbs,
that harder path of the
Savior,
there are rewards along the way.
When you do something right,
when you resist temptation,
when you meet a goal,
you will feel very
good about it.
It is a very different kind of feeling than you have when
you violate commandments--
an altogether different feeling.
It brings a
measure of peace and comfort and provides encouragement to press on."
—Richard G. Scott
RAK
(Random Acts of Kindness)
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