Angels among Us

Last night I didn’t sleep very well after I found out that the bus that runs between home and Mt. Ogden HRC doesn’t run on Sunday and the last run during the week leaves there at around 7:20 PM. During the past 8 months we had a routine where we would go and get Sheila into bed and say “goodnight” to her. So now that we won’t be able to do that and go to church with her made me feel like we had abandoned Sheila at a new and strange place.

Today, my little sister Michelle and her family came down to Ogden to help us get things over to Sheila’s new room. We moved her La-Z-Boy into her room and had to rearrange things a little to make everything fit. We will have to take some of the things that she had at the “old place” just because her new room is so much smaller. She does like her new bed as this one is bigger and has a special mattress to help prevent bed sores. (Maybe we can finally get the ones she has healed.)

While Ashley and I were checking out the new facility we noticed a familiar face walking down the hallway. It was Barbara Skeen the Relief Society President from the branch at WCC. We found out that her brother is at Mt. Ogden HRC and his room is two doors down from Sheila. She was shocked to hear that Sheila was there since she had just seen her on Wednesday for Relief Society at WCC. While we were talking with her she asked about the car and we told her that we couldn’t afford to fix it right away and explained that we didn’t know how we were going to get there to see Sheila. She said that she comes about 4 days a week and comes every Sunday right after Sacrament Meeting at WCC. She agreed to give us rides every Sunday. We told her it was a blessing we had run into her there. She really boosted our spirits and gave us hope that everything would be okay. Then she told us that she never comes to see her brother on Saturdays, but had come in today. Thank you Sister Skeen!