Monday, May 4, 2017, 2:30 PM: Grandpa and Grandma Andrew were on their way from Utah to California via Interstate 15.

They stopped in Payson, Utah for a short while, got something to eat, and then got back on the road and continued south. After some time, Grandpa said he was feeling tired, and they changed drivers. Grandma took over the driving. Then, four miles south of Fillmore, Utah, she suddenly and without any warning fell asleep.

They were traveling in the left lane at 80 mph with the cruise control on. She veered off into the median on the left where the commotion immediately awakened them both. Grandpa reached over and grabbed the wheel to bring the car back up on the road. In response, the car shot up over the freeway and down the other side toward the fence.

Just before reaching the fence, the car began to roll. How many times it rolled, to this day, no one knows. When the car finally came to a stop it was on its wheels and pointed back the way they had come. The car was utterly destroyed.

Once the car stopped, Grandpa looked over at his wife. She was still sitting in the driver’s seat with both hands on the wheel.

“Are you okay,” he asked.

“I think so,” she said.

He climbed out and walked around the car picking up their belongings that had been scattered. People immediately stopped to help, one of them an off-duty police officer. Emergency vehicles came within moments and in less than an hour both of them were at the hospital.

Grandpa had no injuries. Grandma had a sore arm and shoulder. But otherwise, both were completely uninjured. That night they were back home and sleeping in their own beds.

In looking at the car, experts said no one should have survived.

Six days later, their granddaughter, Sister Kennadee Prior, serving in the Missouri Independence Mission, called home for Mother's Day. One of the first things she said to her mother was.

“Mother, I had the funniest thing happen to me.”

And then she described how the previous Monday was her preparation day, and as she had been studying her scriptures, she abruptly felt a strong impression that she needed to pray for Grandpa and Grandma Andrew. Obediently, this faithful young sister, not knowing what to pray for said simply,

“Heavenly Father, please direct thy angels to watch over Grandpa and Grandma.”

That was it! Well, upon hearing that from her daughter, her mother related what had happened to her grandparents that same afternoon. When mother and daughter compared times, they realized that Sister Prior’s prompting came just moments before the accident.

Grandma Andrew relates that during the accident, it was as though time slowed down. She was fully conscious of all that was happening, and in spite of the panic-inducing circumstances, a powerful sense of peace and protection came over her. It was as though someone was there and with her, speaking calm to her soul.

We live in the presence of heaven, God, and angels - surely!