9/11

Emilee Bird was in 8th grade US History when she heard the news of 9/11. She rushed to the front office because her brother Nate was just barely getting home from serving an LDS mission (NY, NY Mission).  She waited outside of the school for her mom to pick her up. Emilee was worried Nate did not make it on the plane home that day. As she got home she got a call from her brother saying he made it safely back and he had some interesting stories. The missionaries did service in the towers every week...that particular day was the day they were supposed to be there but they decided that morning to go to Elis Island instead. No missionaries in that mission were in the city that day. Later Emilee found out that 10 people in the ward her brother served in that worked in the towers, every single one called in sick and did not go into work. All of them lived through that day.