Where do I begin... Last night as I went to bed and prayed to the Lord for opportunities to serve people I was humbled greatly today by how quickly he responded to those prayers. I got up, started the morning off as normal with the regular routine of prayer, brushing my teeth, and getting ready. I had to get to class so I parked at my spot and walked my usual path. As I walked in the first building on campus (the Tanner building) I saw a girl that I vaguely knew. She walked up to me and I could tell by the tears rolling down her cheeks that she was having a ruff time. I gave her a hug, walked the same way with her a little while, said our good byes and went our separate ways. I didn't think much of it, other then sending my empathy her way and prayers toward heaven. On I went with my day, knowing Heavenly Father hears and answers prayers.
Classes, dinner, and homework it was a usual Monday evening form me. I had talked to a friend on the phone that recommended a specific television show that she loved. I was excited to watch it to see how good it was. By the end of the first scene that came on I could already tell it wasn't going to be good for me to watch, to much skin was showing and gambling was coming into the picture. The spirit whispered to me "don't watch this you can not afford to lose even an ounce of the spirit". With that thought, without hesitation,I promptly turned off the TV. After checking my email and making a post on my blog I decided to go to the gym to sit in the sauna before I would take a shower for the night and get ready for bed. It sounded like a great plan to me.
All ready for the sauna nothing unusual was going on. I was in my swim suit, shorts, and laying on my jacket in the sauna enjoying the heat and celebrating inside about being warmed to the core after being bitten by the frozen wind outside. Feeling good and alone in the sauna I once again turned my thoughts to my loving Heavenly Father. I prayed for his guidance and was reporting the events of my day and evaluating how the day had gone, I had honestly tried my best. In the middle of those thoughts a girl came in and sat on the other side. I was on the upper level and she sat on the bottom level. I looked at her but quickly realized I couldn't see her since I wasn't wearing any glasses or contacts and I couldn't see hardly anything a foot away from my face. So I went back to my thoughts for a few moments.
It wasn't two minutes later that I heard a banging on the wall and looked over to see the out line of the girl that had just come in. Her arms and legs were straight out in front of her and she was rocking back and forth making noises and banging her head on the wall. I couldn't see but I quickly jumped up because I knew something was wrong. As I was in mid stride of jumping up, with my arms reached out to catch her, and asking her "are you okay?" without even a chance, she hits the floor, head first, still frozen in the same position as when she was sitting. The walls were hot and the floor was like lava. I bolted for the door and yelled to the worker at the counter for help saying "HELP A GIRL JUST PASSED OUT IN HERE AND IS HAVING A SEIZURE". In one swift motion I was back in and a group of girls followed to help. Her legs were on the wall and when she had fallen she had landed on her neck and head and was laying on the strikingly hot floor. She was as stiff as board, but we had to get her out of the hot room that felt as if it was on fire at this point. We lifted her up and placed her outside the door, where she continued to be stiff, foaming and bleeding out of her mouth, and her eyes were rolling into the back of her head.
At this point I saw that we did about everything that we could for her with the police on the phone, ambulance on the way, and a solid group of BYU girls there to help with anything. I turned to the girl next to me and said "okay, you guys got her?" She assured me that they did. With one deep breath in I went into shock. What had just happened? Would anyone have found her if I wasn't in there? How long would it have been? Everyone is looking at her like she is going to die? Will she be okay?...So many questions, so much pressure, in so little time! I started crying and pacing. Finally calmed down and sat down. I looked up and saw three priesthood holders that had been brought in. They had their hands on her head giving her a priesthood blessing and she was finally starting to come around. I noticed that a few EMT's from BYU were already there. The first one that I saw, I had to take a second glance because it was the 1st counselor in the relief society presidency in my ward. After a few minutes I look at the girl still on the ground and I realize that she is a student that is taking a genealogy class. I am one of the T.A.'s for the class. I didn't know her name or anything else about her but I knew I had helped her on assignments before.
The Lord had blessed us to cross paths before and I am sure I will see her again. The Lord in his tender mercies prepared me fore this experience in different ways. I was giving service last week to a special education class that had special medical needs. When I was there, there were two different students that passed out and had seizures, granted they were nothing compared to this experience, but because of that experience I knew exactly what to do and how to handle it.
In the end the girl was okay. It turns out that she does have a history of seizures, and when the ambulance got there with all the EMT's they had found her name and information. She chose not to go to the hospital at the time and I am sure she will have a good recovery.
Now the point of me typing this story is because it is helping me to still process all that had happened. The more I think about it the more I can recognize the hand of the Lord in my day guiding me and preparing me to be there at that exact moment. The Lord loves her and wanted to help her. Sometimes we are his hands that lift others, figuratively and literally, to safer ground. How grateful I am when I have the opportunities to be those hands to lift or wipe away those tears and how much more grateful I am for those who are there to do the same for me, as we all have those moments in our life. We ALL need each other!
After I called my Mom and left the gym I was asking Heavenly Father "where do I go and who do I turn to?" the first people I thought of were Tammy and Jim Engebretsen. Tonight they were who I needed to wipe my tears and comfort my heart. How grateful I am for them being so loving and exactly what I needed. A BIG THANK YOU TO THEM! As well a thank you to Karli and Kristine for being there and being such great cousins. I truly am surrounded by a wonderful family!
When all is said and done this strengthens my resolve to be better today then I ever was before and reminds me of each and everyone of us and our NEED to have the spirit in our life. We must do everything we can to be as sensitive and in tune to the spirit as we can. God is with us and will guide us if we just seek after what is right and good and choose the things in our life that will bring us closer to our loving Heavenly Father rather then farther away. We each have a choice and it is of eternal consequence! Choose the right and let the consequence follow.
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