Reynolds Ohana: Rise Up!

This weekend was incredible!

Despite getting off to a rough start Friday morning... car problems, figuring out transportation, minor meltdown... Things got a lot better for the weekend! I made it to my patients house and was able to help her get ready. She knows how much I love BYU football, and as I was leaving she said, "Oh yeah, enjoy the game! I really hope BYU wins." Her son (who happens to be a huge Hawaii Warriors fan) gave her the most traitorous (is that a word? I think it should be a word.) look I have ever seen. Oh I loved it!

I went to my next patients house after, and he was excited for me too. He even saved me the sports section of the Honolulu paper because it had some spotlights with BYU players in it. It made my day!

Friday night we went to a special fireside. We made the long journey to Makakilo with Brooke, a cute girl in our ward! We had fun chatting the whole way out there.

The fireside featured the BYU football team and Coach Mendenhall. It's so crazy to think that that's how my football players are getting ready for the game the next day... by sharing their testimonies and how football has built them. One of the linebackers (La'haina) sang, "I Heard Him Come." He played the piano/sang at the same time and it was so beautiful - it was incredibly spiritual.

Funny post-fireside story... So the players sign autographs for 20 minutes after the fireside, right? So I wanted to get my Y bag signed, but I didn't want some secondary who I didn't really know who they were to sign it. So I went up to one of the players, and this is the conversation that ensued..

Me: 'Hey, is Heaps here?'
Player: 'Oh, Jake? No he couldn't make it tonight.'
Me: 'Oh yeah? What about Nelson?'
Player: 'Riley couldn't be here either.'
Me: 'Oh dang. Well thanks anyway.' ... walked off, leaving random
player with pen in hand...

Mike was laughing so hard... He gave me so much crap all night about it. Yeah, oops.. that was probably kinda mean. Oh well, I'm sure he gets it all the time.

The game... wait, you want me to use WORDS to describe the game?

It was euphoric. We had to leave our section and go sit with the Y fans because I'm sure some rabid Hawaiian fan would murder me for cheering so loud. Oh how I loved seeing my boys dominate on the field! What a way to end the season!