Ode to the Truck Owners

We had a killer storm this last week. Like, Wyoming-snow-blowing-sideways storm. It SUCKED. Royally. In any case, Nikki and I had a bunch of stuff to do, so we were out braving the elements until later into the evening. We made it in one piece, and were just heading up to our house, which happens to be up the mountain a little ways. We were cruising along, going kind of slow to not slide, and we noticed a couple cars on our hill stuck. The road's were just too slick and they couldn't make it to the top. "Too bad," I thought as I drove past them. Well... needless to say, we didn't make it much farther than them before our tires started spinning. Our little two-wheel drive machine just wasn't feeling it anymore. No matter how hard we tried, we weren't going to make it up that hill. Cars behind us got into the same situation, and pretty soon we had a pretty good assortment of cars, vans, even small trucks and SUVs all in various positions along the road. Me and some other guys got out and started trying to push cars, but it was pretty much impossible on the slick roads.

That's about when the calvary showed up. One guy who was going to the store with his family in a big old Expedition stopped and was helping where he could. Then two big old Dodge Rams came around the corner. It was two of our neighbors, who both said they knew the roads were bad so they decided to come out and help where they could. Both had chains, which they used to hook to the stuck cars. They then proceed to pull the cars up the hill. When they finished with one, they'd go back and hook up to another. They ended up pulling us right up to our front driveway. It was an incredible act of service. It was freezing outside, I'm sure these guys wanted to be home with their families, but they put all that on hold to go and help out their neighbors. They must have been there all night, towing people up that mountain. It's just comforting to know there's some goodness in the world, that with all the crap going on there's still honestly decent people who care about others. Those men from our ward were truly an inspiration to me. They taught me a lot about the example of Christ, they taught me that I'm never too busy, too tired, or too "whatever" to stop and help someone. Thanks to all of them.

And Merry Christmas to you!