final word

Brandon Curtis was a great leader and friend to so many even to a new incoming Sophomore California boy!  Stephen lays on is bed in his red gym shorts, no shirt and various markings on his tanned body (that he came home from practice this morning with) such as BC, #30, Cutris, and "do ur best" written accross his knuckles all in the color Red.  We will have moved to Springville 2 weeks ago tomorrow....and already our lives have been changed forever...

The team ran a mile around the track this morning and as they waited for the last boy (a freshman) to finish, a boy got up and went out to meet him, pretty soon the whole team was with him as he finished...they then approached  their coach who had tear-filled eyes.

Coach Mitchell spoke to the boys of stories in the book of mormon and likened the Springville Football team to being built like the barges that the jaredites built, tight like a dish and unbreakable...he said that the storms will ALWAYS come but if they stay tight like a dish they will ALWAYS make it through the storms and stay strong....only in Utah will you find  high school coaches teaching from the book of mormon, bearing their testimonies, and young aaronic priesthood holders invoking the power of the priesthood to be with them as they knelt in prayer in the middle of the parking lot of their high school.

I know we are where we are supposed to be.

cont'

Stephen was very quiet all day yesterday and he continued to recieve updated text messages throught out the evening.  Finally he had recieved so many mixed messages that he decided to get on the computer to see if he could find out what was really happening.  It was about 9:30 and the only connection we can get right now is at my in-laws home.  Since Jeff and Stef just arrived the night before from Kentucky, they were already going to bed.  After a slight emotional outburst from our football player, I decided I needed to take him over to the house to get onto the computer.  Stephen looked up Branden on fb and found him.  But since he was not previously a friend of his he could not get all of the information he felt he needed...and he began to breakdown again.  We tried to find out what might have been reported on the news but there was no new information.  We then went home and at about 10:00 last night Stephen asked me to please take him to the HS as all of the kids were going to the hospital.  So, I took him there and there were many cars leaving to go.  They all sat outside the hospital waiting to hear any news.  At 12:00 last night they came home with no new information. ( I hope Branden knew they were there).  This morning Stephen got up at 6:20 to go to his 6:30 football practice as usual.  But at about 9:00 he came home showered and left for the school again.  He said they had not practiced but were waiting to hear how Branden was doing.  He said they were getting ready to do some tests on him.  My guess is that the team will resume practices as soon as they know how he is.  The whole team(that is all 3 teams) is still there at the school together waiting to hear....