We took a Bluff trip and it was really fun! We went to Bluff Utah and learned about the story of Hole in the Rock. We learned what happened to the pioneers when they were told by God to travel to the indian territory buy their sheep. As they were successful, they had many trials along the way. They thought the trip would be 6 weeks but instead the trip turned into 6 months. There were food shortages and it was really hot, but they put all their faith and trust in God and they made it. In one of the rocks along the san Juan Hill the pioneers carved "In God we trust".
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It's hard to see but they carved it into this rock. It's right above the word crew if you can see that well.
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It was all just so amazing to me. I can't even comprehend the pain that the pioneers went through. I know that God put us in these days because He knew that we would be the strong ones, but when I hear what these people did, I don't even start to compare to them. I love the pioneers and what they did for us. They are such amazing people in our history. After we hiked up the hill we hiked back down to the river. We were playing around down there for a little while until Kiersten got injured. She stepped on a 2 inch long russian olive thorn and it got stuck in her foot. They had to cut her foot open but were unsuccessful in getting the whole thing out. Well it just happened that while they were helping get the thorn out of her foot I just happened to get hit it the face by a 3 inch wide stick thrown directly at my face with all strength. It hurt tremendously and I tried to bee tough through it considering someone else was already injured. But it turns out I did need medical attention and I was soon after attended to. I thought I was just bruised, but I was bleeding. I had gotten the deepest cut on my eyelid. I was bleeding like crazy and my bishopric gathered around me trying to figure out how to help. They wiped all the blood off of me and put a bandaid on my eyelid. Well, this left me with a black eye and a bandaid on my eyelid allowing me to barely open my eye. They soon after gave us both blessings and we had a testimony meeting after that. It was such a blessing to be able to have the help I received and that my eye is ok. Aaron bore is testimony in church today about how lucky Kiersten and I were to be able to have a blessing next to the San Juan River, just like the pioneers. This really affected me because it helped me realize that it wasn't bad luck for me to get cut on my eye, it was a trial and a blessing to me that Heavenly Father had given me. Even though I look pretty scary with the cut and black eye I am still grateful for that experience to be blessed at San Juan Hill and not have a more worse injury like going blind in my left eye for the rest of my life.
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| (I also really enjoyed the fresh watermelon!! ;)) |
