WHITE OUT

Today was officially the scariest day of my life. Before it was a day in seminary when we were laying on our teacher's living room floor under warm blankets and drinking hot chocolate. That was the routine on Fridays. We would lay down and rest while the teacher read to us. Well this particular day we were reading about the life of Joseph Smith and the mobs that would attack his home. Right as a few of us were dozing off, we hear gun shots, and 3 men storm in the house with guns, running around wildly. I guess we all went in shock, because none of us moved. We all froze. I was laying by my friend Chelsey, and all we could do was pull the blanket over our heads. Once we looked up, we saw her DAD, dressed in overalls and a fake beard, smiling at us. Yes, it was joke pulled on us, but I seriously thought we were gonna die.

Today was different. Right as we were checking out of our hotel in Laramie, we looked out the window and saw that they opened the interstate. I can't tell you how excited we were to get back on the road. Oh - and a special shout out to Logan Roberts who was kind enough to find us a place to stay if we had to stay overnight again. THANKS! Okay, so we start driving, and there were definitely bad winds that were pretty intense. We get past the part where the road had been closed, and we felt like it would all be downhill from then on. Oh boy were we ever wrong. We started having white outs like you wouldn't believe. If you don't know what a white out is, it's when the wind is blowing the snow that is already on the ground up in the air. It's kinda like fog, except much, MUCH thicker. There were times when we literally couldn't see anything ahead of us except pure whiteness, hoping that we were staying on the road. For the most part we tried to stay close behind big trucks so we could at least see them. Well, there was a time when it was really bad, I was of course freaking out, but then Brooke started freaking out. Like really, really freaking out. As I was wondering why she had that reaction, I looked in the rear view mirror, and there is a semi RIGHT on our butt, swerving off the road because they almost hit us. Holy moly. It was crazy. It seemed like the white out lasted forever. It was miserable. I NEVER could have imagined driving conditions being that bad. I am amazed that we made it out safe. We decided that the next big city we would stay for the night and give our nerves a break. The forecast says that tomorrow should be better. We're only 3 hours away from Salt Lake, but we have a big canyon to drive through. I am so ready to be there to see everyone.

Thanks for your thoughts and prayers. It has been very apparent this entire trip that we have had someone watching over us. One more day. One more day.