LDS Podcast "Latter-Day Lights" - Inspirational LDS Stories
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Part 2 - Faith, Prayer & Miracles Saved Their Missionary's Life! Stan & Eryn Gibson's Story - Latter-Day Lights
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This week, Stan & Eryn Gibson share the incredible story of how their son literally died on his mission, and the countless miracles that surrounded his life being saved.
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Miraculous Power of Prayer
Scott BrandleyHey everyone , I'm Scott Branley .
Alisha CoakleyAnd I'm Alicia Coakley . Every member of the church has a story to share , one that can instill faith , invite growth and inspire others .
Scott BrandleyOn today's episode we're going to hear how the power of prayer miraculously brought one young missionary back to life . Welcome to Latter-day Lights . Hi everyone , welcome back to another episode of Latter-day Lights . We're really excited you're here and we're looking forward to part two of our episode from last week with Stan and Erin Gibson . How are you guys doing ? Good Still , good yep Still good from five minutes ago , when we recorded the first one .
Alisha CoakleyYeah , we're really good . Yeah , the power of editing makes all of our guests have to wait for a week , but we get to hear it instantly .
Scott Brandleyso that's right , we're excited , Awesome .
Alisha CoakleyWell , Stan and Erin , I know that you kind of gave us some information about your family last time when we did a little about you . Why don't you tell us we're going to mix it up , so why don't you guys tell us do you have any weird habits or weird traits or weird talents ?
Scott BrandleyOh , you don't want to go for hobbies .
Eryn GibsonThey don't play any instrument in the world . Once I said this in Sunday school when they were asking about talents and Stan said I have no talents and I said no , you can play everything . And the teacher said I'm going to give you my accordion and if you can learn to play a song on the accordion by next Sunday , I'll give it to you . I'm going to give you my accordion downstairs now because she can play any instrument .
Stan GibsonThat was fun , it was easy . Right , that's an easy move . Wow , that's a really cool talent .
Eryn GibsonI don't have any trouble .
Stan GibsonYeah , erin's got all the talent .
Eryn GibsonI bite off more than I can chew . That is my gift in this life . It's my mode of operation .
Stan GibsonYou know , in the last episode we said that Erin's really shy . But really every good thing , when we get into a ward or a school or whatever it's Erin's , it's all of Erin's people that she gets a hold of . That enriches our lives , right ? She is a magnet for making friends .
Eryn GibsonI like to think Heavenly Father blesses us with good people in our lives .
Stan GibsonShe pulls them all in , like you . There you go .
Alisha CoakleyAwesome . Well , that's so cool . Okay , so we're going to have our part two . Now this story involves one of your kiddos . Remind the viewer , or , yeah , remind all of our listeners and our viewers , and stuff like that . Now , how many kids do you guys have ? We have five sons and a daughter , five sons and a daughter , and your daughter is your youngest , she's our youngest .
Eryn GibsonShe's 15 . Our oldest is 25 .
Stan GibsonYeah , 24 . Don't make it longer . We were married .
Alisha CoakleyAfter 18 , you don't have to remember their birthdays like exactly right , like it's totally fine .
Stan GibsonIf I could remember my anniversary . I remember , it's just , you know , nine months .
Alisha CoakleyThere you go , awesome . And so this story today is about boy number three , your third son . Okay , your third son , awesome . Yeah , the floor is yours . Yes , let's hear about your third son . His name is Rulan . His name is Rulan .
Stan GibsonSo let me , I did say that , but let me give you even more . If you ask my son , if you ask Rulan about this story , he'll go .
Scott BrandleyI don't remember it , it was nothing .
Stan GibsonIt was nothing , it was whatever . So the story is , there are so many miracles in this story . It's incredible . I mean I can't even begin to tell you how many miracles happened in this story , so I'm just going to . I'm going to give you a couple of stories previous to this .
Stan GibsonAaron said in the previous episode that these stories are a marriage story and our family story kind of gel because , or go together , because bringing each one of these six kids into our family has been a fun thing , and each one of them , the one we're going to talk about , is Rulan , that he died , right , he I'll tell . I'll tell , I'll talk about that in a second . But each one of our kids have had a near death . Well , every way , a buddy except Rachel has had a near death experience . In fact , rachel got up and she got up in in a testimony meeting a month or two ago and said Hi , my name is Rachel and I'm the only one who hasn't died . I'm just going to give you a couple of stories previous , just a little vignette , right ? So my third son , the one that we just sent off on a mission here a month ago .
Eryn GibsonThe one who ? That's the fourth son that we just sent off .
Stan GibsonYeah , the four sons , the one we just sent off , his name's Samuel . But anyway , when Samuel was a little tiny boy , I was in when we were in California , I was in fact well , when I was , when he was a little boy , I was sitting in my room and I just heard a voice speak to me go and get , look at , get , samuel . I was good , so I walked in . I just got up and it was in the middle of the morning that at that time I actually slept through the night .
Stan GibsonBut I went in and Sam was having a seizure and so I I quickly called for Aaron and he was some aspirating and he there was a mess on the floor . We held him and so we called the 911 , right , and we they came . The paramedics came as well as get him to the hospital quickly , and as the paramedics came at the paramedic I could see the paramedic I was concerned about Sam and I could see the paramedic had done tests on Sam and I could see that his whole left , part of his body was done , his face was drooped and his face was drooped , everything , he was paralyzed .
Stan GibsonYou know , he couldn't , he didn't have feeling . He was just a young kid .
Eryn GibsonHe was 15 months old .
Stan GibsonYeah , but the paramedic was quite concerned about it , right , and I was concerned , but we took him to the hospital . We rushed him down to Loma Linda hospital . It's a special hospital . They got him in there and he actually they couldn't get him it was so hospital was so busy couldn't get him into MRI , but anyway he recovered quickly and that was . I tell this story just to tell you that God is in control right , and it's going to happen right . And if you want someone to live , he's going to let him live , he's going to let him die , he's going to let him die . And I'm so thankful that our kids are still with us . Right ? Adam , our second , our second old , when he was little , he he , that's Aaron says I wake up for all the diapers and everything . And then she wakes up for all the diapers and all the problems . You know the easy problems and then when there's a big emergency , I get woke up . So I got woke up again at that time and we took Adam was having Adam was two .
Stan GibsonYeah , two , he was having a cold we had . There's a long story involved in this . There's so many miracles in that story but , cutting it short , I felt that we needed to take him to the hospital . We got to the hospital and they said if you had waited another half an hour he would have been dead .
Eryn GibsonHe , he went in and put his hand on him and we couldn't feel him breathing .
Alisha CoakleyYeah .
Eryn GibsonHe had a real bad case of croup .
Stan GibsonYeah , so , and then later on . So the story is about I'm just drawing a blank , but seeing the hand of God in your life , right , and seeing what he does for you , right . So , and about the power of prayer . It really is about the power of prayer . So , adam , when he was older , he's a gymnast , he's a competition gymnast and he's a coach now that he's older .
Stan GibsonSo he's got huge muscles , he can do handstand . He's got a big neck , he has big neck music . So he was at the gym and just while he was at the gym , a big , huge bulge appeared in his neck . Huge bulge . And the owner of the gym said you got to go take care of that and he said no , I don't know what it said , he got on , but it turned out that his aorta or his carotid artery had ruptured and we took him to the hospital .
Stan GibsonThe gymnast went and sent out these messages to pray for Adam and it just went out everywhere Into the community . Into the community and everybody got . I didn't know , Don't go ahead .
Eryn GibsonSo I was with Adam in the hospital and he was prepped for surgery and the vestular surgeons were on hand and it was a trauma one hospital . So everybody was ready and they were just waiting and we waited hour after hour and all of a sudden the situation started to come in hand and it started to fuse back together and he didn't need surgery . His artery fused back together . We ended up bringing him home .
Stan GibsonYeah , they said it was an absolute miracle . So we learned later that this prayer thing went out to the whole community and there was people in our ward that we learned . I said , oh , In high school they said we got the special we should pray for Adam , and they didn't know who it was . They didn't know who they were praying for , but the whole high school was praying for Adam .
Eryn GibsonThey didn't know who he was and one of the girls in the young women said oh , that's the Adam we were all praying for . I just think it's really sweet . We have the most beautiful community here and that's a really really special high school , special teachers . It's something that you may or may not be aware of is this is the Oxford Michigan that had the shooting last year at our high school . But because this is such a prayerful , faithful , good community , everything is coming back together .
Stan GibsonOK , so let me go on a little bit now in the story onto Rulan . So I have to put myself into this story Because since we moved out of California , I have if you can't tell , I have these eyes that are really weird looking , it's the color . I have .
Eryn GibsonAnd everything else .
Stan GibsonYeah . So my dad happened to be a blind TV repairman in Ogden . Everyone knows the blind TV repairman . He's stupid for a blind person to be a TV repairman , but he was . So I inherited
Medical Diagnosis and Seminary Trip
Stan Gibson. I told my family I've taken all the bad genes for them . They're all super strong and they can do anything , but I have all the crappy genes . So when we moved to Michigan we got put into this . We went to the eye center and we finally found a doctor that would look at us . And this doctor put us in this . Oh , there's a bunch of things . We just thought end up . We got put in a study and so this study went out to these genes , our gene pool , whatever . They said . Go out to all your relatives , get these blood samples , whatever . I thought , oh yeah , I'm going to get a disease named after me . That's pretty cool , right . So we went to . Finally we went to the National Institute of .
Stan GibsonHealth . Yeah , neih . They took us to Washington DC , poked and prodded every member of our family and they isolated the gene and it turns out it's called the Singleton-Merton's syndrome , which is a really rare disease that you basically turned to stone and I'm going to die of it eventually .
Eryn GibsonIt hits the eyes , it hits the mouth , the bones in the teeth . It calcifies the muscles and the tympanx and break , but it takes the vision first . The first thing that goes is blindness .
Stan GibsonSo this study went with me and they connected it to the eyes . They didn't know before that it was an eye thing , so they put a lot of money into me just because I'm like the hardest case , because if they configure me out they might be able to help a whole bunch of other people , but it does affect me . I'm am a guinea pig , right , and now I go , I'm still in studies and they're plugging me . So I was in this study , so it was . It's hard . Maybe Erin can help me last year , but there was a time last year Let me go another route before I finish that story .
Stan GibsonErin happened to be going to . We homeschool our kids for their lives , basically Our homeschool . We're partnering with the school district , so we meet with a whole bunch of other families twice a week in the school and Erin happened to be teaching in the school , so she would teach mathematics and science , whatever . And they came to her after a couple of years and said hey , we want you to start a high school , right ? And Erin actually said no way , I'm getting a plate's full , I'm getting a plate's full . And she walked out the door . And you want to say that , or ?
Eryn GibsonWell , I felt that feeling that you get in testimony , meaning that goes donk donk , donk , donk .
Alisha CoakleyAnd .
Eryn GibsonI turned right back around and I said , OK , I'm going to do this . I will do a 6 through 12 grade school and we'll see how it works . And for two years we operated in conjunction with the school district , and so this is our first year that we haven't . But we're talking now the story of 2022 .
Stan GibsonYeah , so in that school since we had a school now , we had our own kids in it . We had some other LDS members or a family that was in it also , and so we volunteered to be seminary teachers for those kids that went to our school . It just happened to be another family that was . We co-taught seminary with the father in this family . The wife of this family wasn't a member of the church and none other was one of the kids , but we still had them in our seminary class Amazing family .
Eryn GibsonThey , this couple , adopted an 11 and 12-year-old child out of the foster care system just a few years ago and started with two kids going into puberty . Very , very brave they were amazing people .
Stan GibsonSo they were in our seminary class , right , and we actually did it . We didn't have to have early morning seminary , we just could get it during the day when we had a chance . And we figured we'd always feed these people . If you got seminary students , you want to feed them . So we fed them at my house . And then this other guy's name , brother Kent . What does that say , brother Kent ? So Brother Kent's house .
Stan GibsonWe would go over there a couple of nights a week and have dinner and they would do seminary there and I would do it at lunchtime at our place that we had back before . So anyway , brother Kent and his family had never been to Kirtland and so as a seminary trip we said , hey , we're just , it's not too far from here , so we're going to go down and we're going to go to Kirtland . So we went down , we went to all the things and saw all the houses and we got I mean , it was a great day to take that whole seminary class we took our family and the seminary class and then , just in particular , we ended up at the John Johnson home down there . And if you've ever been to the John Johnson home , you go through the bottom part and then you end up in the revelation room at the top . So when we were going through the bottom part of that , I had kind of a medical emergency I had to excuse myself and go take care of . I went out the front door and the rest of the family was going through and then I was able to come back and the missionaries are waiting for me and I came in and went up the stairs and met them in the John Johnson home and as they were talking , if you've ever been in the revelation room in the John Johnson home , it's just a beautiful , beautiful , beautiful experience .
Stan GibsonSo the missionaries were talking and some of the kids and the people in the room were trying to say hey , what does the spirit feel like ? What you know , I don't really know answers to my prayers . So I was able to interrupt the interrupt , but I was just able to talk and say if you want to know what the spirit feels like , this is it right . If you want to know answers to your prayers , if you are , you know , feel this is it ? This is how what the spirit feels like . And then the missionaries did a beautiful job of finishing up . It was a beautiful experience .
Miracles and Challenges in Faith Journey
Stan GibsonSo we left that trip and I got sick . For some it just came on me . Really , we don't know exactly what happened and so that was in the fall .
Eryn GibsonStan became very ill , lost weight , was just skeletal , he couldn't sit up . It was hard for him to eat or drink . I mean , he was very , very sick .
Stan GibsonSo I had you know I was 200 pounds or whatever , and I went down to 140 and Aaron thought are you going to die ? Well , we all thought he was going to die . I have to participate in the thing .
Eryn Gibsonright , I have to participate in the thing , but in the meantime , miracles were happening in the lives of the cats . They were taking more and more seminary lessons for us , since , you know , stan started to get really sick and it kind of culminated that Easter time .
Stan GibsonSo before I finish that I mean let me tell you the cats went down on vacation down to Florida and they were coming back . The sister can't like to tell you wasn't a member , but she had . She loved coffee and iced tea and stuff . She knew that she'd have to give up that and one of her sons liked it too and that was his spice . He said , well , you're having coffee , so I can have coffee , right , or I can have drink . So , as they were , she came back and told us this story . She said , as we got back , I just decided I knew , and she read this book from FNZ Obusha . It's a beautiful book . If you ever want to read his story , it's a beautiful book . And so she came back and turned to her family and said they were in a drive-thru and said I'm going to be baptized and I'm not going to drink coffee anymore and I'm out .
Eryn GibsonShe decided that moment . So they had to get the seminaries right on it .
Stan GibsonSo I think we were one of the first people she told about that . It was a beautiful thing and if I ever wanted to go to a baptism , we'd have many Erin and I had many opportunities to go to a new member and participate in missionary discussions or people getting baptized or going to the temple . It's a beautiful experience , but this one I really , really wanted to go . I had got really sick and I had this nerve problem . I mean really so much so if I got in a car and you drove down the road we live on a dirt road and if you hit a bump it would just I couldn't . The pain was so I just passed out . It was so great . I was like , ah , so I had this issue , but I really wanted to go to this baptism and it happened to be like I said , erin it was .
Stan GibsonEaster Sunday and my son got called to speak on that , Samuel the fourth one .
Stan GibsonYeah , it's called the speak in sacraments . So I was by a miracle . I was able to make it to sacred meeting . I had been watching with Zoom for months , but I made it to sacred meeting this day and it just so happened that that day our two other sons I mean Samuel and Amon , number five , number five , four or five , we're getting their chocolate blessings that day .
Stan GibsonSo the plan was to go to Sunday school , I mean go to church , come home and wait a little while and then go to this , have the two patriarchs go to his house , have that done , then go to this baptismal service . Right , so I , we , I managed to go to church that day . I'm a Sunday school president still . So I got there and I was able to conduct . Just miracle I mean really a miracle that I was able to conduct the Sunday school , me . And during Sunday school my bishop and his wife got up and left . They said we have to catch a plane , we have to go , we have to catch a plane . So I said okay , well , you know , go yeah and I made it , I made it home .
Stan GibsonAnd then we , the patriarch said we , I'm gonna change the time . So he changed the time up a little bit , but we were . I still was able to make it out of the driveway and make it to his house to have this , and it was a beautiful experience too . But after that that , that patriarchal blessing , I couldn't . It was . I don't know if you've ever had that kind of pain . I just couldn't . I knew I couldn't go to the baptism . I was so , so , so sad . I had been looking forward to being able to
Miracles Amidst Medical Crisis
Stan Gibsongo . Aaron was asked to speak . That how it was it ? We were , we moved . It was in our old war . We're still in that stake . Everyone in the old war showed up to the . It was packed from the front to the back , but I , I said you have to take me home . I , I can't do it .
Eryn GibsonI'm so sad . I even cry now because I'm so sad about it but it was beautiful in the spirit that day , that Easter Sunday . The point of this is that it was really , really beautiful and we were so filled with the spirit by the end of that day that we just felt like we were just shiny .
Stan GibsonAnd then we got up early the next morning yes , so got a phone call so just think I mean I'm in this bad way and I it would take me it was a miracle that I got there in the first place to that Sunday yeah , he hadn't been out of the house in months but that next day I got a call from my sister that said Stan Rulans in the hospital , he's collapsing .
Stan GibsonI don't know what's going on . I mean , my sister happened to be friends with the mission office couple and they were in reward , so I got a call from my sister before I ever got a call from the mission president . There is why for anything . She said my brother is there at the hospital , I think he's okay . So I I thought to myself well , he's there , people are taking care of him . I didn't know all how , what was , how got , what went on with him , and so I said he's okay . But it was absolutely another miracle within . I mean , the mission president's wife called us after that , like an hour later , and said well , rulans is in intensive care and don't be afraid to just not come not come right , come if you want come right .
Stan GibsonSo it was just a miracle that suddenly we had a plane ticket Aaron's my sister .
Eryn GibsonI had told my family to start praying in the very beginning . As soon as we found out I woke everybody up and in all the states out west and said please start praying . There's something terribly wrong with Rulans . And and immediately one of my sisters in Gillette got me tickets , got Stan and I tickets , and we had to take my oldest son with us because so Stan was so sick .
Eryn GibsonSo that we knew that he would have to have somebody to carry him or push him on a stretcher or something , but Stan wanted to be there so badly . So our oldest son is a paramedic and he's like okay , I got you guys so he .
Stan GibsonThat's a miracle , though , that my son , my oldest son , he was already packed . I , when the plane cut , when the plane order got made , I think they had 20- minutes to pack and to pack and leave . But my thought my oldest son was already packed , he was already there and he was at our door . It's by miracle , I mean really just showed up right and said I'll drive you to the airport .
Eryn GibsonSo he and he said he has his work schedule worked out perfectly and he was able to get a work wife stayed with our other children here at the house so that we could really just dash and be with ruin so we made it on the plane by a miracle .
Stan GibsonI mean we made it in to Denver . It was great . We got into Denver and they said that was when the mask thing got the day . They did really have a through our flight . We got the thing . Fight , we're able to take our mask off . Every been the airport was screaming , yay right . So we made it into Utah . So I talked about we all . We made it to the , we went to the hospital and Davis County Hospital .
Stan GibsonDavis County Hospital . So here is the . Here's some other miracles . So I'm gonna tell you what happened to Rue and himself , right , so he woke up in the morning that day and it was an absolute . Here's another miracle that he got put in a threesome . And luckily he was in threesome for that month , because when he got out of the shower he walked and they were gonna go to the rest .
Eryn GibsonHe was just reaching for his water bottle to leave for exercise and he collapsed .
Stan GibsonAnd this missionaries were companions , were thinking well , he's just whatever . They slapped him a couple times , but he would . He would literally collapse and died . His heart had stopped his heart stopped right there wow his one companion happened to be certified nurse . Certified nurse nurse assistant so he immediately was able to start chest compressions and and CPR . And they lived on a place that wasn't very accessible at all , so the other companion was able to run out to the road and it just here's another miracle the just minutes before called 911 .
Stan GibsonThat's right , they did call 911 and minutes before the paramedic had just passed the house this is a special kind of paramedic .
Eryn GibsonHe's called the sheriff's medic . There are only two of this position in in the country , in the United States . One of them is in Layton County , is that ?
Stan Gibsonthe county Well Davis County .
Eryn GibsonDavis County , and one of them is my son up in Genesee County here in Michigan .
Stan GibsonYeah , so like I was medically trained especially for this , situation .
Eryn GibsonRight , he got the call . He got the call as he was passing .
Stan GibsonAs he was passing and the missionary ran out there and was able to flag him down and break him right in to the house . Oh , they took him , they got him in , they were just doing chest compressions on him and loaded him into and the hospital happened to be Well .
Eryn Gibsonso we had the first medic that was there on scene and he took over chest compressions and within two minutes the ambulance was able to come , because he was very , very close to Davis Hospital .
Stan GibsonYeah , just two minutes .
Eryn GibsonAnd so they took over and later we learned more of the story . But they took him into the hospital at that time . Yeah , he coded several times in the hospital . So that first night they never were able to get his heart started until they got him to the ER and they took some leads down right in here and put him right into his heart and put an external pacemaker on him and that was what was keeping him alive .
Eryn GibsonSo he had something beating for his heart . They had him on the long machine that was breathing for him . They had everything he was on life support .
Stan GibsonSo the nurse there , I always beat the nurse . Just the first nurse we got was incredible because she just was going around , his arm looked like a pin cushion because he had just he had both arms covered in IVs right and it the innovated with breathing and he was just totally out right . But she was constantly on him and made every alarm just that whole night and so Erin stayed with her .
Eryn GibsonNot allowed to stay in the ICU when someone's on life support , like that , even though we were there . But I just looked at this nurse and I was like I cannot leave my boy . And she said just sit in . And they didn't found a comfortable chair for me to sit in , so I left , am I ? Am I okay ?
Stan GibsonAm I ? Am I all the sun left to go to my mom's house . We knew that they told us the surgeon will come in early in the morning , and so we left . We just got a few hours sleep . We wanted to be back for the surgeon to come in the morning .
Eryn GibsonSo the cardiologist .
Stan GibsonYeah , so we just came back . It was like it was just a miracle . This is amazing that I was able to stand and do this whole thing .
Eryn GibsonSo we came back and you went to give him a blessing , but we found out that our Bishop contacted us right away .
Stan GibsonNo , I actually . So , like I told you , the Bishop got on this flight flight that's another miracle . And as he was going on , he had his son had was going back to school and he didn't need to be in Utah until Thursday or Friday .
Eryn GibsonThey have a flight on Wednesday , yeah , and something tells the Bishop to change that flight .
Stan GibsonHe just said I knew I needed . And all his family was like , well , I would . Just , he had just got up a mission from Utah , right , and he didn't want to come back . And he's like why are you coming ? I don't want to go back there . Why are you making this three days early ? Because we don't have anything to do those extra three days . So , but he just felt like they needed to leave . So they did .
Stan GibsonWhen I was there , I just had this feeling . I knew I needed to call the Bishop . I had family members all in that area , right , but I knew I needed to call my Bishop . So I called him and I said what are you doing ? Can you come up to the hospital and help us out ? And he said we got all the time in the world , right , we'd come up and help you at the hospital . So he was . It was just absolute I mean cry about that , because it was just personal , right . So he came in and we were able to keep people one person in the ICU , or two people all time , someone that was there with him . If Aaron and I were tired , the Bishop and his wife were able to be there with him .
Eryn GibsonFor the mission president and his wife were amazing . I know that that is an incredibly busy calling , but they took as much time as they could to just be with Ruland and be with us .
Stan GibsonSo it came , ruland seemed to be stable and it came to a time where they were gonna wake him up because he had been put in a coma , right , induced coma , right . So they said , well , we can wake him up , and when he wakes up then we're gonna have to do something more . But we don't know if his brain dad , or anything . So we got together with the Bishop and Aaron and myself and my oldest son outside the intensive care and we said a prayer and we said well , I mean , our choice was I'm just blanking out here our choice was to stay there at University of Utah , I mean at Davis Hospital , or Fly to University of Utah where they had more intensive care .
Eryn GibsonBut the Fly could have been dangerous , so that was a risk that we and he was so stable where he was we didn't want to risk it .
Stan GibsonSo I felt that he I mean the spirit was they're such good people at the hospital and the spirit was there .
Eryn GibsonShout out to Davis County Hospital .
Stan GibsonYeah , I felt comfortable with them , but Aaron felt that he needed to go , the higher level of treatment .
Stan GibsonWe were at odds there , right ? So then we were able to go into this room and have a prayer . I pray , I think I prayed , and Aaron prayed , and then the Bishop spoke up and said well , if I had my son , I would want the very best treatment . I remember him saying that , and as soon as he said that , I just knew that we all were in agreement . Then , right , that Fly , we should fly him out .
Stan GibsonSo they had already started to started the wakeup process and so we told them yeah , we're gonna fly him out . So they had to put him back into a coma . But Rulan woke up during that time and that picture I sent you of me standing over Rulan my Bishop happened to be there and that's my Bishop say we can share that picture . I'm gonna share that with the world here . But that was a very , very tender moment because Rulan was waking up out of a coma and as we knew that he was gonna go on this life flight and my Bishop and I were standing over him and as he was waking up , I just started talking to Rulan . I said Rulan , erin was really , really tired .
Stan GibsonSo she she wasn't there , yeah gone . And I said Rulan , have you ever been on a helicopter ? And he said no .
Eryn GibsonAnd I was like oh my gosh , Did he ever open his eyes ?
Stan GibsonHe did . Yeah , he did . He looked at me and he said so . We knew , my Bishop and I . We both said he's there , right , he's alive .
Miraculous Recovery and Divine Intervention
Stan GibsonIt was a great moment to have him wake up Friday , but he had stuff on his hands to keep his hands from moving , and he had . He was intubated . I told him . I said you know , rulan , I know you're uncomfortable , I know you're , I know this is hard for you and you just have to make it through this . And so I was able to . I hold his hands down from . He had mittens on him so that he wouldn't pull the pull the cords off .
Eryn GibsonHe was desegointed , he wasn't sure that he didn't know what was going on .
Stan GibsonBut I was able to hold it . He wanted . He was constantly reaching up to try to take things off or whatever , and I had to hold his hands down . We just had to wait , and it takes a while for the sedative to come to go , so it was like a you know 20 minutes or something . So I was able to . I had just read that book from Sister Kent or Brother Kent , f N Joe Bush . I just knew it from memory . So I would . I told him the story and as I was telling the story , as long as I was telling him the story , he was comforted and calm . And I actually tell him , I say I said do you want me to continue ? And he would start moving , whatever . And then , as I continued , I held his hand down and he would be calm , and so I . It was amazing , I finished right to the end of the first chapter as he went to sleep going , and so they were right . After that they were able to take him .
Stan GibsonSo here's just one other story that I'll just tell you . When I was in , before this experience I went to when we got to the hospital . So we're going to give it ruin a blessing . I had planned to give him a blessing . And my brother and the mission president had already been there and had already given him a blessing .
Stan GibsonAnd the mission president showed up and I didn't know him from , I had never met him , but he showed up and then my bishop happened to be there and I was kind of well distraught and I just said , well , you know what bishop , why don't you give him the blessing so I can just be there ? And it was just a really tender moment , right , because the bishop put his hands on my son's head , rulin's head , and we were all reaching across this bed with equipment and stuff . The mission president got behind him and I was able to reach and you know , my condition was just so high . We put my hands on his head , he was shaking , I was shaking to put my hands on it . Just , it was the mission president . I , just I have to . This is Rulin .
Stan GibsonSuch a sweet man . He took my hand and just held it there right , just as a sweet whole person . So it was a beautiful blessing that was pronounced on Rulin's head , and after that am I holding it .
Eryn GibsonAfter that , the bishop and the mission president gave Stan a blessing .
Stan GibsonThe mission president said hey , you need a blessing . So he came over and gave me a blessing and in that blessing he said you will see angels and you will have angels Kick you . And I'm sorry I'm making a little bit emotional , because it was really and at that moment Stan started getting better . Yeah , from that time on . And now he walks around and annoys everybody .
Eryn GibsonI always switched around .
Stan GibsonI still have paid today , right , but I'm able to walk and To come tell about July , the middle of July .
Eryn Gibsonso this was Easter to start really being able to walk around and stuff .
Stan GibsonSo anyway , I'll just tell you here . So I took that video . I'll send you the video . I was able to stand and they packed him up and put him on the life flight and Aaron and my oldest son had just work coming back so they watched the helicopter fly off . I got a picture and they were still in the car coming to the hospital .
Eryn GibsonAnd then we met him at University of Utah .
Stan GibsonSo yeah , I got the paramedics number and the paramedics and he would already . We were still driving to the hospital and the paramedic called me and said all right , he's in room , whatever . He's already unpacked and done , so that we met him at the hospital and I couldn't . I still was in a situation where I just couldn't stand right and I knew I couldn't make it up the road . At that time I already was pretty run out . I knew I couldn't drive . My brother lived up an odd and pleasant view and I'm centralized . I couldn't make it . But the miracle again that our family just Another family member .
Eryn GibsonMy sister was able to book a hotel right next to the hospital , Right next to the hospital , right very closely so I was able to go .
Stan GibsonSo I stayed in the hospital , are in the hotel and I wasn't able to go . And Aaron went back the next day when Rulan was waking up , so you can tell that .
Eryn GibsonSo he didn't recognize me at first but they felt he was safe and they could tell that his heart was beating on his own .
Eryn GibsonThey brought him out and they actually disconnected the external defrigter later and pacemaker and his heart was on its own and did some testing and he was cute because he didn't know what was going on . But he wants he's going to school to be a doctor and wants to be a surgeon and so he's always been really interested in medical and he was irritated to see myself and his brother there because he didn't recognize us . But he recognized the medical situation and he had faith in the doctors and those who were in scrubs and in their medical gear and he was 100% at ease and at peace . Even though he was still trying to get his mind back and his memory back , he just felt like he was in good hands and it was a beautiful process of over the next couple of days to see him go from asking questions and I would say I'm your mom To , two minutes later , who are you ? I'm your mom , and to see his memory get longer and longer . And then I know I have to be .
Stan GibsonErin missed this part of the story , but Erin would tell the story over and over to him .
Eryn GibsonShe was funny because she would tell the story . This is really neat . So I told you about this fellow who was , and he actually came to see us in the ICU at the Davis .
Stan GibsonHospital . There was another emergency that he came in and he's decorated himself to come back and see us .
Eryn GibsonHe's also a medic , this special physician , so he was the first man on scene with the ambulance and he had come back to talk to us and to just share his he was a retainer and shares testimony with us . That was really really beautiful .
Stan GibsonHe said I mean for me as a father . He just said I've been on many , many calls and there's some that are just special and I'm proud . I said , yeah , he is special , right , but back in he sought us out and it was beautiful to hear his side of the story . Anyway , come on . So at one point .
Eryn GibsonI was talking to Rulan and trying to explain what happened , how much we knew , because we had talked to his missionary companions and the mission president we're trying to piece together the story here at this point and he at this point recognized me and I said OK , so then they put you on the stretcher and they walked you out to the ambulance . And he said no , mom , I remember this part very clearly . They put I remember the stretcher going to the ambulance , but I followed it behind and I was walking and he didn't . That was the only part that he remembered . And he said I remember because there was the ambulance and there was the sheriff's medic there .
Stan GibsonYeah , he recognized that . He explained he talked about the symbol on the .
Eryn GibsonThe emblem on the car and he didn't recognize it because it's not something that you would recognize . My son recognized it because he is in the only other county in the nation that has a position as a sheriff's medic .
Stan GibsonSo Aaron said no , rulan , you were dead .
Eryn GibsonAnd later , once he went to sleep and we told him the story again , he couldn't remember that part . That was the only time that he remembered that part of it .
Stan GibsonSo I said that the veil is really , really thin right , it really is . So later on , I mean he went from that position and luckily we did take him to the University of Utah Hospital because they had to go in and replace . He had to put in a pacemaker .
Eryn GibsonThey put in a defibrillator and a pacemaker like a duo device and they got him all set and ready to go back on his mission . We should talk about the prayers .
Stan GibsonYeah , so I will . I'm going to finish this up and I'll talk about the prayers real quick . So , rulan , I gave him a blessing in that hospital that second time , right , and this happened on a Monday , and by Friday he was ready to be .
Eryn GibsonHe wouldn't wheel out of the hospital in the wheelchair . He walked out of the hospital .
Stan GibsonHe was ready to be Sanieled out . He walked . So that evening they said okay , this heart .
Eryn GibsonThe wound from having that pacemaker installed .
Stan GibsonIt's just put by a string , so no lifting . It's in his heart muscle here .
Eryn GibsonIn the pectoral muscle .
Stan GibsonYeah , it's just barely there . So no lifting more than 10 pounds or no lifting at all . Right , so we went out to eat food . You know and eat food . So we went out to eat and .
Eryn GibsonLeaving there stand tripped .
Stan GibsonLeaving there . I tripped and he grabbed my arm .
Eryn GibsonJust instinctively , he wanted to save his head from falling .
Stan GibsonAnd I thought oh , I just killed my kid . I just killed my kid , right .
Eryn GibsonIt was a scary moment .
Stan GibsonSo luckily that happened , though because Aaron had to go back , I was not able to .
Eryn GibsonI was looking at his arm and we were watching it and we could see these abnormalities forming in his vein and like giant lump , and we took him right back to the ER at the University Hospital and stayed there another night while they made sure that the clots weren't moving and that they took care of all of that . It was just the trauma from the so many needles and when they do a big trauma thing like that , they put in a big , huge needle and then they sew it in to place and so he had so many wounds and it was from one of those really big punctures that . But it was fine and they were able to take care of everything they needed to .
Stan GibsonYeah , there was a bunch of blood . I turned it was a bunch of blood cuts there so he had to go back to the emergency room to get that taken care of .
Eryn GibsonAnd we would have gone back , because he's not a kid who complains , he was also a gymnast and they go through pain and they don't complain , and so he wasn't going to say anything . Yeah , that was a miracle , so let me just yeah , his arm was like huge and red and we're like that's not right .
Stan GibsonLet me just tell you about the prayers real quick . I mean so when this first happened , I got ahold of my state president and said Rulans had this experience and they need to pray for him . And our whole ward home prayed for him and fasted for him , and Erin happens to be in the school . All these people in the school know Erin really well and there's Baptists and every denomination , buddhist , the Jews .
Eryn GibsonEvery single person that we knew was letting us know we're praying for him day and night .
Stan GibsonYeah , we're praying for him . All the people who are normally against the LDS church , right , but even they were praying for us . It was a beautiful , beautiful thing and they sent out , they let us know that . They went on the prayer rolls and this all over the world went out . We know it and I can testify I mean , if I'm going to testify of anything or say anything , that prayer is real , right , absolutely real . I know for Rulans , if you like , we told you earlier we'd say , if you asked him , I don't remember anything , right , but for me it was an absolute miracle . I knew I could feel the prayers for me and Rulans . It was like this .
Eryn GibsonIt was almost like a palpable fog , but it wasn't a fog , it was a light of the prayers from people of every denomination in all over the world and to see these prayer trees going out and saying pray for this boy . He's on a mission and he needs to come back , finish his mission and come back to his family .
Stan GibsonSo I know , I know that prayers were and the angels were there to come and help me turn around right my whole health situation . I flew home , right I was able to I mean I set up and the whole nine yards . So not only did Heavenly Father restore my son's life , so here we'll just tell you this funny thing , right ?
Faith and Near-Death Experiences
Stan GibsonSo after Rulan had his thing , aaron went up to his apartment to Well , he got out of the hospital .
Eryn GibsonWe had to stay there for another week an hour or so while they were like watching the wound close , and then we brought him home with us for a couple of weeks to get over the restriction , until the restriction of his movement was over and then he was to go back on his mission . So we had to get his stuff out of his apartment . And we went to the apartment and it got really real because we saw his clothes that were , that were all like shredded from the paramedics who shred the clothing they just , they just ripped it off him .
Stan GibsonYeah , they , they have these special shredders and they kind of he had just got a new t-shirt right and that's his t-shirt and he has sweatshirt that was brand new first time . When they were up there they happened to be Easter right , so they put that in the apartment and said wrote on it said Rue Langebsen , elder Gibson died and rose again .
Eryn GibsonFor testimony for the missionaries after him .
Stan GibsonWow yeah so , wow , I mean , there you go . There's means of power , prayers , rail keep going .
Scott BrandleyWhat ? What exactly happened to him , like what ? Did he have a heart attack ? Or ?
Eryn GibsonThey said that , that it's idiopathic . His heart just stopped . There's not an explanation , point , in fact . I have some we felt like we felt like it may be Associated with singleto-murton's , this , this , this genetic disease that runs in our family and because it does affect the heart and and two of our other children have it and the other , the children who don't show symptoms , haven't been the National Institute of Health never ran their genetics to see if .
Stan GibsonYes , they had , they run it , oh yeah , and they just didn't tell us because we're in the study .
Eryn GibsonYou don't tell you , unless you actually come to them with symptoms .
Stan GibsonAnyway , so so they did do it for ruling right and he doesn't have it . Yeah , I am grateful , like I told you before , that every one of my kids and their experiences , my , my other son , actually Did a rhabdo . I don't know if you wouldn't know what that is but he told my house that Christmas . Yeah , he worked out so hard that his muscles were deteriorating and it almost took his life .
Eryn GibsonPoison his other Organs and he ended up a week in the hospital trying to clear his the toxins from his blood . It was we had quite a year that year that was .
Stan GibsonBut if I'm grateful in all of the , all the close-death , near-death experiences , whatever hemipathies plan wasn't to take our kids right and I'm grateful for that . I mean I know there's many people out there who have had their kids taken right and it's a really tough experience and I can Simplify the sympathize with them a little bit right when you can never really be in another person's shoes . But I know I mean our art , my faith has grown a Tremendous . I know miracles . I know there's angels , I know there's . I know , you know faith works . I know prayer works . Without , without a die of experience . I could tell you you know more stories if you want , because there's just so many in my life , right , but I can't doubt it . I just can't doubt that there's a heavenly father and that there's Plan for us or nothing happens by chance . I mean all those things , all those of the things the , the bishop showing up there and you know happen , being a threesome , all of that is just absolutely a miracle . That's all directed by God .
Eryn GibsonThe cardiologist who put his , the electrophysiologist who put his pacemaker in . He had just dropped his boy off at the Salt Lake City Airport to go to on his mission to Florida and then drove right back to the hospital to do the surgery on ruling it . That was kind of . That was a special moment for us to kind of say you know , when you are a person of faith , and not just the LDS , but when your person of faith you're bonded , you understand that we're brothers and sisters .
Eryn GibsonAnd I think if I could say one thing about this whole experience , aside from how the the power of prayer is real , also the power of unity and you know we live here in Michigan there rulens Entire latent mission Fits more than three times in our ward boundaries . Yeah , so his whole mission . It's not just our one word and so but , but we have our communications with people of Every faith and there's so much love and so much connection to be had . And so when when president Nielsen Spoke about unity recently , and that's just not within the church , it's within every part of our community , religion , non-religious .
Stan GibsonYeah , you could be . You can be a peacemaker , right you ?
Eryn Gibsoncan absolutely yeah , because we will bless each other .
Stan GibsonYeah , absolutely no . I was just gonna mention too , that I was able to get the day of ruling what's getting out .
Eryn GibsonHe still had memory problems , so I'm messed with him for a while I gave him a , give him a blessing .
Stan GibsonThere didn't have a thing ever said , you know , that he would able to go on his mission , continue on his mission and testify of this experience , to testify of prayer , right . Wow , later on , I Since he didn't remember that , yes for another blessing , and the words are exactly the same . But about if he was , he told the on his mission here , he just got off , you know , a week ago , right , and was able to come and testify of that very thing , the power of prayer , right , and he was able to use it in his mission work and we're able to use it now , right , and we father . Hopefully some person will be inspired to know that's truth , right ?
Alisha CoakleyThat's crazy , incredible . Oh my goodness , wow , you guys , you're right . You are just falling down that waterfall . Oh my gosh , wow , so yeah , and how is he doing today ? How's ruling today ? Does he have any side effects left over ?
Eryn GibsonNo , no , it's fabulous . He's not allowed to get near magnets , so he had to Mission name tags that have the magnets on him . He wasn't allowed to use them anymore . And he's not allowed to be near engines large engines that are running .
Stan GibsonYeah , so I tell him it gets done an airplane . No , mri you have a paper pacemaker going around with that machine .
Eryn GibsonThat's right , I have to do with the , with using his pacemaker , but it's functioning really , really well . He has this neat device that does real-time it bluetooth from the device into another , like out of his body Machine , and that Records everything and so we can see when his body , his heart , is Given him more trouble . He doesn't even know it , he doesn't even feel it , it just takes over for him and just makes and just keeps him alive .
Stan GibsonI said if he has another cardiac event , right , I mean people , people , pacemakers might know this is that you'll feel it right .
Eryn GibsonBut when the pacemaker kicks in , he's good , but if the defibrillator has to be used , you would feel the deal .
Stan GibsonYeah , you'll feel that right but he's doing fabulous right now . He's he . He got up his mission and then he signed up to go .
Eryn GibsonFor the summer Fsy . He's being a We'll start premed Yep , so he's .
Stan GibsonHe's doing well yeah super well for now , never know about next week .
Eryn GibsonWe'll take that when it comes . We'll take next week that scripture I'm sufficient unto the day is the . Every single day will take care of itself .
Stan GibsonWe know that we're on the two-minute plan . Yep , you just take the next two minutes . Good and faithful . The next two minutes are good , right ?
Scott BrandleyOh Well , I love that , you have faith and gratitude for those , for the time you have . I think a lot of the things you've been through as has made you appreciate and maybe be grateful for , for the time that you have , because we don't , we don't know .
Stan GibsonYeah , right , yeah , you really need to live your life to the fullest .
Eryn GibsonI mean really , really not so much YOLO as in do crazy things right . Well , and if that looks scary , do it yeah yeah , that doesn't include jumping on an airplane .
Alisha CoakleyScott Scott wants to . So bad , don't you ?
Stan GibsonMy kids have jumped on out there . I've loaded an airplane but I've never landed . So yeah , when you do the jump for parachuting , we want to see it . Take a video of that .
Alisha CoakleyOr maybe don't well . Jump with divorce papers . His wife has made it very clear no .
Discovering and Sharing Miracles
Scott BrandleyWell , yeah , I love your guys story .
Alisha CoakleyI really love that you said it multiple times there are so many miracles , there's so many miracles and you know , I think that sometimes , especially when we're dealing with trauma and and with these like big life events that we had no intention of , of Experiencing , right , like it's so easy to see all of the bad things Well , this happened and then this happened and that you know what I mean Like it's so easy to focus on all of that negative that's happening that we forget that there's a bunch of miracles that are happening too , and the miracles don't have to be these big , profound , you know , I mean , obviously , like your son being able to come back you know , well , many of your children being able to come back and and stuff like that .
Alisha CoakleyLike those are huge miracles , but there are , but they're no more Powerful or important than the small miracles , right , and that's that's the way their heavenly father works , like he likes to put all of the things into place and Give us that opportunity to be able to sit and see his hand and all of it . And I just I love that you guys , as a couple , have really made it like a point to to not only like Pay attention to the miracles that are surrounding you , but then to be so open with sharing them with others . You know , I I think that's . It's just amazing .
Stan GibsonOh , it's really a blessing to me that him , the father , telling this personally trust us . Ruling's death and coming back was a very public event , right , yeah , and a meeting everyone in his mission knew about it .
Eryn GibsonThe stakes in the awards that he'd served in flooded us , you know , ruling with all the little cards from the primary and the young women's , and we were flooded with boxes of Beautiful . So it was really public , but we're not very public people .
Stan GibsonWell , I'm just saying , I mean , normally you look at those little miracles , right , and you keep them to yourself , right , and you but you quadrim in your hearts , right ? I mean all the other little miracle we just told you about just now . I'm only , I'm only sharing this because I I feel like Himaly father asked us to write , so I talked to me .
Eryn GibsonWe shy people who don't , who'd like to keep our lives to ourselves . I'm gonna go on a podcast .
Stan GibsonBut it was very public and heavenly father trust us . I mean , I take that very Seriously . Right that he trust us to share this story , right , this , this event . But you're right , there's miracles in our lives every single day , if you just look for he who has eyes to see and ears to hear .
Eryn GibsonWe'll see in everything around you .
Stan GibsonYeah , you'll see how much I said . You may not feel at times that he's there and helping you out , but you just wait a little while yes , they're looking . Or wait a little while , make it through that trial and then you'll see that his hands there , it's real . The bell is , you know . Just , he's just right there .
Eryn GibsonThat's very thin something that was a Tender mercy for us as we were there that very first and second day in Davis Hospital in the ICU , the cardiologists and the specialists who were coming in , that we were connecting with all of them . One of them came in with a University of Michigan lanyard on and we're like Michigan , our man and I say man with a Wayne State sweatshirt on , and we're like those were tender mercies that kept telling us little whispers of heavenly father saying see , I've got you , see I have a whole big plan .
Stan GibsonYeah , he actually said that you could . He would find us up with any mission . Universal commission games . Did you show this or no ? Yeah totally different story , oh yeah well , we got written up in this article for that study , right ? So right anyway . Another public little thing , another miracle .
Eryn GibsonYeah , that was made public and we got a lot of um having this study done . I was , we were all willing to do it because it was very private and it was supposed to help people all over the world and it and it has and it will but to have . But when the University of Michigan asked to make it public and then AP picked up on it and that was that was something we really had to think about . And then we thought you know what , if we can bless people who who are also in a situation where they're sick and the doctors don't know what's going on , or if we can just Uphold someone , give someone some hope , maybe , maybe a laugh , because we're kind of weird Then we were willing to do that and to share .
Stan GibsonYeah , share the miracles right , really like . Like like you podcast says right , yeah , everybody has a story right and you can feel the light that you know just be uplifted , and Go on , go on . See the good day .
Eryn GibsonI Like . Don't put it over your candle .
Alisha CoakleyYeah , it's funny that you know .
Scott BrandleyThinking about your story from part one , you're both introverts , you know , like you just Didn't know how , how things were gonna work out for you in your life , and then now you've had all these public things happen and and these public prayers and people rooting for you and and Just interesting how life turns out right . It's just .
Stan GibsonNot that we're asking .
Eryn GibsonFor somebody else , I'm happy to pray .
Scott BrandleyYeah , you know .
Alisha CoakleyI think that that that just shows growth on your part , right , like I oh , who was I , I don't know ? I was listening to someone Another podcast at some point and they were talking . The person on there was talking about how we tend to get stuck in these like , oh well , that's just how I am , right , like I'm just a private person . Right , I'm not , obviously , but you know , you have that . You have people that say I'm just a private person or oh , in my case , I'm just always late . Right , I'm just bad with money , I'm just whatever .
Alisha CoakleyFeel in the blank right , like we just tend to like put a label on something that that we currently might be struggling with , or maybe we don't even feel Like it's a struggle , maybe we just feel like that's just part of our nature , but that's not where we're supposed to stay . I don't like . Heavenly Father He'll give us these experiences and he will help us to have the resources and the tools to Become more of the person that we're supposed to be . You know like we're supposed to grow , and so maybe maybe you like to be a Private person , but maybe that's not what Heavenly Father needs from you , right ? And so I love that you guys were willing to follow the spirit and to reach out to us to share your stories and I hope that , you know , in the future we'll be able to hear even more of the miracles and stuff like that for the Gibson family , which I don't know . And let me ask real quick now have either of you guys had near-death experiences ?
Scott Brandleyor is it just Me ?
Eryn GibsonRight , yep , mine are from being dumb , His are from being sick you know what ?
Stan GibsonWe'll share this right . I will share this . During my sickness right , there was a time when I was so in pain that I just said . I turned to Aaron . I said I I Can't live this way . If I have to , there's no way I can . I cannot do it .
Eryn GibsonHe could barely speak . It was weeks where well , the weakness was I could speak , oh well .
Stan GibsonBut , I'm just telling you , I was so much in pain that I just said I , I , I can't live and .
Stan GibsonNo , I just I reached out to Emily , father , and said I , I want to die , I just don't want to have this kind of pain anymore . And just then the Spirit came in the room and lifted . The pain was still there , but to be in such pain that you don't want to be here anymore , it is a level that you don't want to be to right . And he took that away from me , he took that off of me . So I was able to Just survive that evening , right . So the blessings are . I mean I , we can go on and on about the things You're . It's beautiful , the miracles that are . Heavenly father does Make your weak things strong . He would , he can , he can do it all . Like you said , you can , you can . You think you're a money bad , put the money or whatever you can take , whatever it is , whatever you are , and make you powerful .
Eryn GibsonMy advice is to go ahead and make yourself powerful first , before , just yeah .
Alisha CoakleyYeah , exactly , just don't even , don't even tempt him with . Okay , I'll send you an experience .
Stan GibsonJust just make deals with him and saying hey .
Scott BrandleyI want to be this way by this time .
Alisha CoakleyWell , you guys have been such such a joy to have on . We really appreciate you reaching out to us and sharing your stories and your light with everyone , and and we're so glad to hear that that stand that you and your son were both able to Come out stronger from this experience and and we really hope that All things will continue to work together for your good . I know that they will .
Stan GibsonSo with that .
Alisha CoakleyIs there any last thoughts that you guys like to share with our listeners ?
Eryn GibsonSo just thanks for the shine this light .
Stan GibsonYeah , it's been an absolute pleasure . Thanks so much .
Scott BrandleyYeah , thank you for sharing your faith and your testimonies with us and for having the courage to come on here . I know it's hard sometimes to To get out of your comfort zone and share your story , but I really think it helps people and and you're gonna you're gonna inspire people with your stories .
Alisha CoakleyYeah , Well to our listeners
Thanking Listeners and Encouraging Story Submissions
Alisha Coakley. We wanted to thank you guys , too , for tuning in to another episode of Lottery Lights and remember , if you guys have a story to share , one that can instill faith , invite growth or inspire others , please reach out to us . You can hit us up on Facebook . You can Comment on any of the videos or the podcast that you guys are hearing . You can also head over to Latter-day Lights calm . At the very bottom of the page we have a little form that you can fill out that will email us directly . So we would love to be able to take your stories and share them with the world as well and , hopefully , you know , be able to inspire others to keep seeking for the the tiny miracles and the big miracles too .
Stan GibsonAll right thanks so much awesome .
Scott BrandleyThanks again , guys , and Thank you for all of our listeners , and we will talk to you again next Sunday , so then take care . Yeah , goodbye .
