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brrgilbert
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Registered: December 2012
Location: Nampa, Idaho
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Ryan, I hope you don't mind that I take the opportunity to post here about two miraculous interventions that I experienced prior to my mission . . . evidencing that I was suppose to go.
My mother informed me that I was one who would pray and ask Heavenly Father to protect me and then go out and dare Him to do it. Please do NOT follow my example! (My Mission President assured me that I shouldn't feel like I was good for nothing . . . that I could always be used as a bad example.) Anyway, after having an ear surgery check-up in Reno, Nevada, my mom and I were traveling back to our hometown in the northeastern corner of California. We were traveling near Pyramid Lake toward Gerlach, Nevada. As was my nature, I was driving our station wagon at dusk at 110 mile per hour trying to reduce the travel time home, (my mom was asleep in the front bench seat beside me, not knowing that I was taking advantage of the situation.) As dusk turned into twilight and as the white lines of the highway were whizzing by, I caught the glimpse of sets of shiny eyeballs and the outline of several black angus cattle crossing the road about 60 feet in front of me. My immediate reaction was to slam on the brakes and brace myself for impact. As the tires locked up, things from the back of the vehicle and my mom started moving forward. I skidded to a stop as they pummeled the dash and the back of the front seat. To my amazement, (and more immediate to my mom's,) there was no collision to the front-end of the car. I immediately exited the door of the wagon, nauseated at the smell of the burnt rubber; looking to see where the herd had gone and how I missed them. I was weak in the knees upon realizing that the car had passed between them and they had exited the roadway. I had some real explaining to do to my mom and some heartfelt gratitude to give to Heavenly Father for saving our lives. We arrived home safely and late.
Because we lived in the country, as common, we needed to procure firewood for our fireplace stoves when I was 19 years old. Again, my poor mother was a passenger with me in my short-bed, GMC pickup as we made our way up a snow-covered, logging-truck traveled, slick dirt road. We were preceded by an older family friend in his small Datsun pickup. As we were traveling up the 25 degree grade with the mountain side to my right and about a 70 degree, steep slope-off on my left. The slope-off was uncluttered with trees in a clearing about 100 yards long and it appeared to have an unobstructed steady drop-down for about 100 yards. The only vegetation growing in this downside area were small bushes and shrubbery about a foot and a half tall, with an occasional sage brush. (The scenery is set, now for the incident . . . .) As I was driving, the rear wheels lost traction. I was able to stop the pickup on the icey road near the top of the clearing. Seeing that the smaller and lighter Datsun pickup was able to negotiate the incline readily, I ventured to move forward, releasing the clutch slowly. The back tire lost traction again, only this time the pickup started sliding backwards down the road. My brakes were useless and the vehicle started moving faster and faster. It was terrifying because I couldn't brake; I didn't dare relieve the clutch; it was gone. All I could do was try to steer backwards and pray. Finally, I lost steering and the vehicle careened over the 75 degree slope-off. (I knew ahead of time that if we went off parallel to the roadway, the pickup would roll all the way down to the bottom of the 100 yard clearing.) I shut my eyes and said to myself, this is it! Immediately the pickup slammed to a stop off of the road. My mom and I looked at each other puzzled after seeing our lives pass before our eyes. We were off the road, but the truck was facing uphill, perpendicular to the road; stopped. But how?? With some effort, I opened up my door. Barely able to stand on the steep mountain side, I realized what miraculous event occurred. Unknown and unseen by me, hidden in the clearing's growth was a huge rock, now visible underneath my pickup. Upon moving down the mountain toward the back of my pickup, I saw the thing that stopped us. It was a covered up tree trunk. My pickup's back, driver side tire had hit the boulder, causing the whole thing to flip from its parallel path to a perpendicular one, aligning it with the tree trunk that would act as our barrier from rolling backwards down that mountainside. Upon closer inspection, this was the only boulder and tree trunk that I could find in that whole clearing described to you earlier. The pickup was so lodged in this predicament that when I came with the tow truck to pull it out; having to take the cable around a 14 inch tree on the upside of the mountain and hooking it to the front-end frame of the pickup . . . the tow truck pulled that tree down without budging the pickup. It was only by pulling the boulder out from under it that we could again bring it up onto the roadway. God DOES answer prayers and young men are suppose to go on missions.
"I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."
The Little Prince by St. Exupery
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