General Conference Weekend

General Conference weekend was great.  We went up to Bunkerville to visit Brielle's family.  Another benefit of going to Bunkerville was that Brielle made jam.  Raspberry-peach.  Mmmm.  It was fun to just go and visit and enjoy one another's company.  We consumed lots of good food.  We enjoyed the spirit of conference.  What more could we ask out of the weekend?  Well, that wasn't good enough for us.  On our way out of Bunkerville, I slowed down as we going around this huge bend in the road.  Little did we know that there would a surprise for us on the other side of the bend.  We came around and there was a herd of cows in the middle of the road.  I didn't have time to stop, so we hit a cow.  Luckily, we were able to slow down enough that we were not injured.  The cow ran off.  When the highway patrol officer got there, he looked at the front of the car and said, "You hit a cow."  Followed by, "She even crapped on the hood.  That's just not right. I guess you scared the crap out of her." We were glad that he was so calm and brought humor to the situation.  The tow truck came and after loading up our car, the driver got in the truck and said he has another tow on the way to Vegas.  He wanted to know if that was okay with us.  So we go to meet some new people on the way home.  Their car had broken down.  On our way home, we passed several people who were on the side of the road.  It was the night for accidents and car problems.  We passed at least 5 cars that were on the side of the road.  I have never seen so many cars on the side of the road in such a short stretch of freeway.  Jason, the driver, dropped us off at the Cannery and Brielle's old roommate Abbi, came and picked us up and brought us home.  We counted our blessings.  We are so glad that were protected.  We said many prayers of thanks that night.