Dear friends and family,

Thank you for your concern for dear sweet Heidi,

she is making progress. for those of you who don't know what happened to Heidi, on Monday January 26, 2009 Heidi suffered a vein burst in her head and it bled onto her brain. She was in her dance class at BYU Idaho when this happened.

She was then life flighted to the Idaho Falls Eastern Medical Center. Right away they performed surgery on her brain. They had to drain the blood and remove the vain that was causing the bleeding and clear up any areas causing problems.

This was a very serious operation and with very little hope of a good outcome. But because of the faith and prayers from everyone and also the priesthood power has helped her make very good progress so far, but has a lot of work ahead of her to be able to recover. She has a strong will and we know she is anxious to recover.

Heidi can open her eyes now for only a few minutes at a time now and she is receiving physical therapy a little bit at a time.

Heidi's ward, the BYU Idaho 30th ward is holding a fast this Sunday for Heidi. Everyone who would like to join with them in this fast is invited to do so. Heidi's bishop as his wife (the Sevey family) have been very good to our family, visiting constantly and helping in every imaginable way.

We are very aware of the many prayer from everyone, and we are very grateful for this. We
hope that you will all continue to pray for her. She still needs to make a lot of progress.

We would like to thank all the family, near and far, and also Heidi's roommates, friends, classmates and ward member who have been praying for her, and also all those who have been praying for her without even knowing her.

We love you all, thank you so much.