Miracles

Me at 26 weeks. Taken last Thursday. =)

Wow, I can't believe how fast time is flying by. I'm really glad that it is though; we are really excited to meet Landon. Sometimes I still can't believe that I am going to be a mom in 3 months. I think all the time about how different our lives our going to be. And we are so excited for the change. We are so grateful that we are able to be parents. It is scary thinking about how both a physical and spiritual life rests in the fate of our hands but we know that "our hands" includes our Heavenly Father's hands as well. I am so grateful to Him for blessing Landon and I with health and I know that He will continue to help us be the kind of parents we want to be.

I've had a really easy pregnancy (so far) and I didn't expect that I would. I've felt better than I have in months (that could also be because I'm done with school) =). My spirits are great and my hormones aren't throwing my mood out of whack like I always thought they would. I survived student teaching and haven't even thrown up once...have come close to it... but haven't thrown up yet. I am not so much worried about that now as I was when I was student teaching. It could have been a nightmare being in my first trimester and student teaching but it went awesome. I know that I have been really blessed. I've grown to love my pregnancy body and my belly that gets bigger every week. It is funny to look at the difference between these pictures of me at 23 weeks and at 26 weeks. It's crazy how fast Landon grew in just 3 weeks.

I still sometimes get nervous if I don't feel Landon move a lot but I just keep reminding myself of an important lesson that I have learned over the past couple months. It's a lesson of miracles. In the bible dictionary it says that miracles are "the natural results of the Messiah's presence among men." I've learned that if we stay close to the Lord, naturally, miracles happen. He really can do anything. A couple months ago before I learned this lesson I was worried about Landon all the time. I was worried about every little thing that I did and if it would hurt him. I ate cookie dough one time and was freaking out because I thought I was going to get salmonella and the internet says that it can kill an unborn baby if the mother got it. I called my mom up as I have done many times before and she told me that Heavenly Father has the power, if it is His will, to protect the baby even if the mother is sick. He can stop salmonella if it is His will, He can give the baby the strength it needs even if I didn't take my prenatal vitamin a couple weeks in a row. He can do anything because He knows us and He loves us.

Take for example the car accident in Logan canyon that happened just this last New Year's Eve day. A father, his two children, and his daughter's friend were driving in the canyon when the father, who was driving, swerved to avoid another crash in front of him. Their car slid into the freezing Logan canyon river upside down. The father was able to get out of the car but could not open the door to get his children out. He wasn't even waiting long before there were people- angels- jumping into the river to help turn the car over to get his children out. Among those people was a former police officer who always carries a gun and a pocket knife around with him because he likes to be prepared. This man shot out the window of the car and was able to get the kids free- and with his pocket knife, cut the straps on the toddler's car seat to get him out too. Two of the children were lifeless. There just happened to be a respiratory therapist on the scene (a person trained in bringing people back to life) and she began CPR on the children was able to revive them both. All of the children survived and are in good health. This story touched my heart so much because the two girls who were in the car are students that I teach in my dance class here in Logan every week. I know them. When I heard about the miracles that took place to save these sweet girl's lives my testimony was strengthened even more.

What are the odds that a person with a gun, a pocket knife, and a person trained in respiratory therapy would be there on the scene that day? If they weren't there those children would be dead. How did they just happen to be driving through the canyon that day right behind the person who crashed? How was it that they felt the urge to get out of their car without hesitation and jump into the freezing river without any knowledge if anyone needed their help? It was because of one thing and one thing only- God was there. It wasn't a coincidence that those people were there that day, it was a miracle. Heavenly Father knew that those people needed to be there that day and so He sent them to work a miracle in someone else's life. What an inspirational story. What a faith builder that is to me. If Heavenly Father can save lives of people that had no odds of being saved that day then what kind of miracles can He do with me and my family? In you and in your family? I want to bare my testimony and let you know that He does work miracles, every day, in our lives if we let Him. From letting us wake up in the morning to helping us have enough money to pay bills to protecting us from our silly fears of getting salmonela poisoning from eating cookie dough. He is a God of miracles if you let Him be so. Keep Him in your life and you will find that out too.