SAR-Snow and rescue...

Merril's buddies from Search and Rescue asked if he and the fam wanted to go play in the snow up on Kolob for fun.  Merril called home and we got ready as fast as we could but we were still behind the SAR guys.  We were in a truck that Merril was going to fix and then sell and decided that we didn't want to go all the way to the top of Kolob for fear of getting stuck.

So we pulled off and started to play in the snow part way up.

There was plenty of it!

It had snowed a lot the previous couple of days and we were digging it.

We could hear the SAR guys on the radio and knew they were around and just kept playing where we were.  After an hour or so, we were thinking of heading back and saw the SAR guys coming down the road.  The lead guy stopped and said they had happened upon a lady who was stuck in her car.  She had slid off the road, had no cell service and had slept in her car that night, running the engine when she got cold.  She was hoping and praying that someone would happen along but that road is so bad in the winter, the odds of anyone driving it are slim.  These Search and Rescue guys in their huge Jeeps felt a prompting to drive up for a fun Saturday activity and found this poor lady!!  It was supposed to snow a ton more that whole weekend and her odds of survival, with little gear, would have been nil.  When they spotted the car and headed toward her, she jumped out of her car, waving her arms and crying, so thankful she'd been found!  I'm so thankful to know that our Lord is mindful of us and prompted them to head up there.  The SAR guys were prepared with food, water, and tow straps.  They pulled her out and she road down in a Jeep while a SAR guy drove her vehicle down.   

It makes me proud to know that Merril is part of this group of real-life heroes.