Bluehawk's story

This is the segment that I send in for the ward monthly newsletter.

This month I want to share with you the story of a young man named Bluehawk.  One of our bishops in Vacaville asked us to go with the elders to see if there was anything we could do to help.  He had served in the military and had been deployed a couple of times.  He was suffering from PTSD and had depression. The bishop received a phone call one evening from Bluehawk asking for help.  He had been living with his sister while looking for a job here in California.   However his sister was killed in an automobile accident and Bluehawk was left on his own.  He lost the apartment because he couldn’t pay the rent, which made him homeless.  The night that he called the bishop, he was on the streets and alone and scared.  He asked for help and the bishop came through.  He put him in a long-stay motel until he could assess the situation.  We visited him a couple of times with the elders to get some background. We learned his parents had passed away several years ago and so now with his sister’s death, he was truly alone.

One young man from the singles ward went to pick him up for church and saw the conditions he was living in.  By that I mean the neighbors he had.  While Bluehawk was in the car with him, a couple of other tenants started banging on their car windows and so they got out of there.  When they got to the young man’s family and home, he told his parents about their encounter. His parents offered to have Bluehawk stay with them until they could figure something out.   Bluehawk went to church with the young singles in the family and has been looking for a job.  We have now met with him several times and this last time he asked Craig for a blessing.   He attended a baptism with us and really felt the spirit. 

We have learned so many things through our experience with Bluehawk.  We have realized that we have been blessed in so many ways.  I personally have wondered if I would have the same Christian heart and take someone into my home and help them get back on their feet.  The Lord truly blesses us all and we need to be aware of those blessings and give thanks.  So, to our Cresthaven family, we ask you to pray for the missionaries.  Please ask and seek to see the every day tender mercies that are all around you.  The Lord will bless us all, if we but ask.