Aaron's Close Call

Aaron had a close call two days ago. While he was riding his bike to school he was hit by a slow-moving car. The boys came up to the intersection and stopped on the corner because they noticed a car approaching the intersection on their left. The driver stopped the car and looked to left to see if any cars were coming (looking straight into the morning sun). The boys thought he was stopping for them to cross in front of him so they started to ride across. The driver started forward (momentarily blinded from looking into the sun) and broadsided Aaron knocking him off completely off his bike onto the road. Luckily he was wearing his helmet because he hit the ground pretty hard. Hard enough to crack his helmet significantly and he had a very hard time standing up again.
The amazing thing was what happened right afterwards. Because everyone was taking their kids to school at the same time and they were still in our ward boundaries, at least 1 member of our ward saw the accident, another 4 mothers arrived immediately after recognizing Matthew and Aaron, Jenny's brother Jared was driving to work and arrived right after it happened, one of the mothers quick went and got Jenny while someone else called 911. By the time Jenny arrived the Police, Fire, and Ambulance were already there (talk about a gut-wrenching sight to see!) Once Jenny arrived there were some more ward members met her to watch the babies in the car so Jenny could go see Aaron. In a way, I feel sorry for the guy that hit him because there were probably 10 people there that knew Aaron personally and were surrounding him. We love living here. There is so much love and support that we receive all the time from our ward, we feel truly blessed. The paramedics checked him out thoroughly and gave him the all-clear to go home highlighting the fact that if he were not wearing his helmet, he would most likely be going to the hospital instead.
He was very shaken and spent most of the day on the couch. He is now back to his funny, hi-energy self with a very deep testimony of praying for safety and of wearing helmets. Thank you for all your prayers to watch over family members. As we can see, it works!