Monday, December 13, 2010

Around the Lake Ward

Dear Lake Ward members,

Hiro H spoke and told us about the missionaries finding him in 1980 and teaching him about the gospel.  Hiro is a self described thrill seeker, adventurous and crazy!  In June of 1996 he has competing in sky diving competitions.  One night he was looking at the ceiling, when it changed to a movie screen and he saw 2 white angels holding his body in the air.  Hiro didn't know what to make of what he had seen.

The next day he went sky diving again.  He jumped out of the airplane at 13,000 feet and enjoyed the free fall until at 2,500 feet he opened his chute.  It didn't open property and at 1,000 he was still free falling, started to spin out of control and he couldn't open his reserve chute.  He passed out and woke up in the hospital.  The doctor, Dr. Hope, did a CAT scan and said that he was okay and didn't have a broken bone in his body.  The doctor asked Hiro if he had really jumped out of a plane because most people he had seen who had done that didn't live through it or had brain damage, spinal cord damage or were a vegetable.