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I picked a girl up from a piercing parlor in Salt Lake City and was took her up to the University of Utah. On the way we started talking about names and her name which was pronounced a little bit differently than you would think and the interesting thing about genealogy and names. I pointedContinue reading “She has some questions, God has some answers”

I was downtown by the University of Utah when I got a ride at 45th South by the freeway at a gas station. That should never happen because there are many drivers between me and there. It should always go to the closest driver but it chose me. At first I was going to letContinue reading “Get thee away from the University of Utah and rescue my sheep”

One Friday I was mowing my lawn and thinking about the scriptures I was listening to. I like to listen to the scriptures while I mow my lawn because I can focus on what they’re saying and focus on what the spirit is teaching me. I were in Helaman and it was talking about theContinue reading “Feeling better! Wrong hotel right car”

I picked up a guy at the Brickyard restaurant on a Friday night. He came out and he had been drinking a beer but he wasn’t drunk. He was loud! Loud doesn’t scare me. He got in the car and liked the song I was playing on the radio and started talking about how growingContinue reading “Don’t ask the question unless you are ready for the answer”

One Saturday night it was 12:45 and I was getting fired up for the most lucrative 90 minutes of the week. In that time you should make a dollar a minute or more. From 1:00 to 2:30 is gold. Bonuses everywhere and usually short rides around town. That is easy on the gas tank. IContinue reading “Sometimes Having a blog full of parables comes in handy”

I was in Midvale and I got a ride going 46 minutes north. Clearly I didn’t want to go 46 minutes north but I felt prompted to do it anyway. I picked up a woman outside of the 7-Eleven who was smoking talking to a bunch of ne’er-do-well looking dudes. She had a bunch ofContinue reading “Tell her how much I love her”

I picked up this guy in Sugarhouse one evening. He was standing out front with his friend and they didn’t know which one the car was for. Finally we figured it out and he got in the car and we started driving. He said that he was grateful for the how quickly the ride gotContinue reading “The importance of understanding a perfect fathers love”

I picked up a girl from the Urban Lounge, a music venue and bar in Salt Lake City. When I was waiting for her to get in the car two guys came up and asked me who I was waiting for and I gave them her name and they said, oh, we’re here for thatContinue reading “Escaping the Urban Jungle”

I picked up a guy at a hotel downtown. He works maintenance at the hotel. It’s an older hotel and they don’t throw things away. They repair furniture and stuff so it was kind of cool to talk to him about how they can’t do anything new. They have to try to keep up theContinue reading “Like preserving an old hotel, God doesn’t throw us away, he fixes us.”

I picked up A 20-year-old young man at his house. He wasn’t coming out and I was trying to text and call him so that I could get going but he wasn’t coming out. Finally with about one minute left before cancellation he showed up and he started apologizing profusely for making me wait. IContinue reading “Born again and again!”

I picked up a girl one Thursday night in Salt Lake City in front of the temple by the City Creek shopping center. I was taking her out to West Valley so it was going to be a little bit of a ride maybe 15 or 20 minutes. We started to go when I askedContinue reading “Christ would turn out not in”

One night I did a pick up in West Valley City I found the girl on the side of the road, not where the app said she would be. She got in and she said hello. We headed 15 minutes southwest so it was a pretty long drive. After I picked her up, felt theContinue reading “God won’t forget and Neither will she”

I was up in Park City earlier than usual. I picked a family up from the airport that I was referred to by a friend so I could make a little extra money. When I dropped them off I decided to do some rides to see how it was in Park City that night. IContinue reading “Let the lower lights be burning;Send a gleam across the wave.Some poor fainting, struggling seawoman You may rescue, you may save.”

One night I was out driving and I was starting a three ride streak at 1 AM. That means that if you do three rides back to back to back then they give you an additional $18. I got my first ride done then my second ride took me clear to North Salt Lake. IContinue reading “The other side of the tracks”

One day I was picking up a person at the point of the mountain Maverick gas station. I pulled up in front of the doors of the Maverick station and a young man came out and got in my car. He was a Polynesian and was a happy guy. I said hi and I askedContinue reading “Don’t need no coffee round here”

The other night it was late. It was about 2:30 in the morning. It had been quiet for about a half an hour and I was fighting the urge to go home because I felt there might be one more ride and there was. In the western part of West Valley City I got aContinue reading “Ride in holy places”

I was driving in Salt Lake City on a Wednesday night. Wednesday nights are really poor usually and I was afraid I wasn’t going to make too much money so I was trying to work at the airport and pick up bonuses. It seemed to me to be very difficult to get to the airport.Continue reading “Decide to be happy”

I picked up a cold dude standing alone In a parking lot in Park City with his ski equipment. It turns out he had been working in Park City this season. He was from Chile and we started talking in Spanish. He asked how I learned Spanish and I told him that I went onContinue reading “Chile in Park City”

One night I was out about 1 AM and I got a ride to go 40 minutes north of Murray. That’s Clearfield folks! That’s a long ways away for a 1 AM trip but I decided to take it. It was in a pretty sketchy area and the app said it was some unknown dude.Continue reading “We interrupt Satan’s plan and instead present to you God‘s plan of happiness.”

I left to go to Salt Lake City one afternoon and I almost made it! There were lots of bonuses in Salt Lake and I was after them. I was in Lehi going over the point of the mountain when I got a seven dollar bonus. I had to go onto the frontage road toContinue reading “One door closes and sometimes that’s a good thing”

One Saturday night I was driving in Salt Lake. A lot of times Saturday nights are wasted, driving drunk people just gets you nowhere. You don’t even get good tips because they are too drunk to remember but it is kind of needed to make sure everyone gets home and no one gets killed onContinue reading “Genealogy theyll be doing it, their genealogy.”

One night it was late and I thought about going home. It was a holiday week and I knew I was going to miss one day of work that week. I knew that I had to make extra money because of the day I was going to miss. It was 2:30 in the morning andContinue reading “Cleaning up after others, it’s what we need to do.”

I picked up a guy that worked in a mall in the south central part of the valley. I was taking him first to his apartment and then to another place, I didn’t know where. I talked about where he worked and he said he really liked it. He worked in the clothing store andContinue reading “He is just a copy cat and a knock off artist”

Sometimes Fridays and Saturday nights can be difficult . It feels like all you do is shuttle drunk people but part of the reason you do it is because you shuttle drunk people. If they’re in your car they’re not killing other people or themselves. I have a lot of people say you’re Mormon aren’tContinue reading “The prodigal daughter”

I met this young lady on a snow day. It was the day after the biggest snowstorm we’ve had in Utah in a long time and I was out driving and making good money. I got a ride to go to the airport and I put my setting on end request because I wanted toContinue reading “The frozen chosen”

I’d been out in West Jordan and West Valley City working much of the night on a Saturday night finishing off a Streak Bonus. I was excited to get back into town. Saturday night there are big bonuses in town and I was going to get some of them. I got into town and IContinue reading “Brothers are best”

I was in Bountiful dropping a couple off and planned to go back to the airport to get more people because they had bonuses there. Then I got a ride downtown at the Smart Home Arena where the Jazz play. I pulled up and there was a lady with pink hair waiting for me. SheContinue reading “She didn’t need him anyway, she needs God!”

I was downtown where there are lots of rides working a bonus streak. I needed to roll up as many numbers as I could in a short period of time. This means short rides really close together and that means more money! I was doing really well and then from downtown I got a callContinue reading “When ALL else seems hopeless god will send his love”

I picked up this lady at the Marriott downtown in Salt Lake City. She was heading to the airport and we put her huge suitcase in the back of my vehicle. We started down the road and I asked her where she was from. She said she was born in india but lived in AustinContinue reading “If you chance to meet a frown do not let it stay, bring the spirit in the car and chase that frown away!”

I was in down town Salt Lake and was supposed to go pick up a guy and take him 15 minutes north, probably to Woods Cross or near there. I didn’t feel right about it and I didn’t want to do it so I went into Smith’s to go shopping. When you go shopping orContinue reading “Well, are you going to say it or what?”

I got a pickup in South Salt lake to take a guy to the airport. He was a clean-cut guy and just seemed to be happy. I knew from the start we would be talking about the gospel. We only had from 13th south to the airport so I had to get right on it.Continue reading “Don’t forget that the boss is watching”

I picked up a young lady at the Marriott library on the University of Utah campus. I had to wait for a long time but finally she came running out she got in the car. She asked me what I did for a living. I told her that right now I was driving car butContinue reading “Chose ye this day”

One night I picked up a guy from an airport hotel, he was from Lake Tahoe and was going to get an x-ray. Before I knew where we were going I could tell that he was troubled and sad and he was worried. I could tell this by the spirit. I told him that IContinue reading “Sweet hour of prayer”

One fast Sunday, Saturday night late I picked up a guy on the east bench going out to 80th west by Magna. We started talking and I felt to ask him about the church. I didn’t know how to bring it up so I asked him if he spoke Spanish and when he said noContinue reading “Alone no more”

I picked up this young man from the airport. He was going to north Ogden so we were in for a ride. As we started I felt that we might possibly be talking about the church but doubts started creeping in. We talked about some people that were yelling in Spanish at him in theContinue reading “Grandma has her say”

I got a call to take three people to Lehi at 2:45 on a Saturday morning. We got going and I found that these guys were having fun and they decided that they wanted to go over and play at a friends house in Sugarhouse instead. This was great with me because going to LehiContinue reading “He is the shepherd and he always knows just where to find them”

I got a call to pick up a woman in Cottonwood Heights. When I was coming up on the address the road was really screwy on the map and I didn’t know where I would be ending up. I looked up and the road was coming at the bottom of the hill. Looking up IContinue reading “In times of trouble, listen to your heart”

I picked up this man at his hotel by the airport. He just finished work and was getting ready to go into town to relax and get out of his hotel room. It was a Thursday and I had been hoping to get a bonus from the airport but was taken out to the hotelsContinue reading “Angels in the backseat”

I picked up this guy at the 7-Eleven on ninth south and second east. He was covered in tattoos and had at least three piercings in each ear. He had been waiting for someone to meet him there but they didn’t show up. I asked him who he was waiting for. He told me aContinue reading “Looking for love in all the wrong places.”

I picked this young lady up at the airport and she’d had a very stressful day. Because of weather her flight from back east had been delayed and she almost didn’t make her connection. She barely got on the flight to Salt Lake City and then it was very turbulent. She wasn’t feeling very goodContinue reading “He calms turbulence too!”

This young lady came in from Sacramento and I picked her up at the airport. She had been there to prepare for her brothers wedding. She had introduced her brother to his wife and the responsibility was weighing heavily on her shoulders. You could tell she loved her family but I started feeling about howContinue reading “Abraham has other children and they’re all Gods children”

I picked up a girl at a rave on a Friday night. She came out of the party dressed very immodestly jumped in the car and started to cry. I said are you doing OK? She said I guess we could go with that I’m doing OK. I could see she was being tormented byContinue reading “A fathers prayer of faith”

I stopped at the apartments just off 1600 S. in Orem to pick up a lady. When she got in the car she seemed stressed and sad. I asked her where we were going and she said we were going to get her boy friend out of jail. Well, that was a first! Apparently heContinue reading “I love it when his plan comes together”

I was driving down the road and I picked up this young lady at the mechanic shop. She was there selling her car because she is going to go back to Peru. When I picked her up and started to talk to her I could tell that she had questions and I could tell thatContinue reading “My God is a God of miracles”

One night this blonde girl in her 20s got in my car after having been with some of her friends in a bar downtown. She had been drinking but she wasn’t drunk. She was going from that bar to another party not far from East high school. I asked her where she was from. IContinue reading “Perfect love for the win!”

I picked up a family at the airport in Salt Lake City. They were going to Pleasant Grove. He was a mechanic and she was an office assistant and was pregnant with her second child and his first. The star of the car however was the little blond 8 year old girl. The little girlContinue reading “And a child will lead them”

Yo subí una familia en el aeropuerto de Salt Lake City y estuvieron yendo a pleasant grove. El era mecánico por autos y ella era asistente en una oficina pero estaba embarazada con su segundo hijo, eres el primer para su esposo. Sin embargo la estrella de la noche en el auto era una niñaContinue reading “Y un niño será su líder”

I picked up this young man about one in the morning. He was leaving a girls house and I was taking him to his house. It was about a 15 minute drive so we had a little bit of time. We started talking about the girl that he had been with and he mentioned howContinue reading “The Spirits in prison”

Yo recibí una llamada para buscar un joven un día más o menos a la 1:00 de la mañana. Él estaba saliendo de la casa de una chica y yo estaba llevándolo a su casa. era más o menos un el viaje de 15 minutos pues teníamos un poquito de tiempo. Empezamos hablando de laContinue reading “Se encuentra el Espíritu en el cárcel”