Today was a day of miracles...

Matt's sister Julie and her husband Stanton have 4 adorable children Chloe, Lily, Brigham, and Cannon. Today was an intense day for their family, poor little Brigham was born with a heart condition called called L-TGA or Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries. So it's as if his heart is backwards. The way Julie describes it is that "the blood goes to the correct places, but the wrong parts are performing the labor." So he has always seemed like a normal kid, but his heart cannot continue functioning the way it does in the long term because the right ventricle isn't physiologically designed to pump against the pressure of the body. If they just lef this alone his heart would most likely fail in his early 30s which would lead to a heart transplant. They found a surgeon in Boston who was able to perform the necessary operation and we have all been fasting and praying for him! Julie has been so great to update her blog with all that is going on so we can all stay in tuned with his progress. Things went very well and we are so grateful to Heavenly Father for his tender mercy!

Meanwhile we got news that Matt's grandmother was in the hospital! Her heart stopped a couple of times and she just went through surgery to have a pace maker put in! Scary! I guess Matt's grandpa was with her and all of a sudden she yelled out to him before passing out. He grabbed her and was trying to make her come to and when he hit her chest he re-started her heart! Talk about scary. Matt was completely in a fog and emotionally drained today with all the things going on with his family. It is SOOOO hard to be so many miles away from family when trying times like this come. Thank goodness for prayer! (I probably have many details wrong...I get things 2nd and 3rd hand :)