The next event

The next event leading to Brent and I getting together isn't a joyful one but it was the next moment in our story.

Last year in May I went over to hang out at Stephanie's house, something that was a frequent occurrence and she told me some sad news she had receive. Brent's brother David and three of his daughters were in a horrible car accident that resulted in the death of everyone in the car except one daughter. Brent's sister-in-law, Emily, was at home at the time with their baby so those two were ok and the surviving daughter was in critical condition. I was heartbroken for this women I didn't know and wanted to do something. Since I didn't know her but did vaguely know Brent I decided to send him a sympathy card. Now I felt a little stupid about this action and didn't want anyone to think that I had ulterior motives so it took me a little while to actually go through with sending it. I actually brought two cards and sent the second one to a lady in my ward that lost her husband around the same time just to make myself feel like this was a common practice for myself. I also wrote my message out on a piece of paper trying to think of something that could possibly be of comfort, while not sounding like I had an ulterior motive, before I actually wrote the message on the card and mailed it. Stephanie told me that Brent had gotten a job out of the state so I looked the story up online to get his last name (yep, I didn't even remember his last name) and then used anywho.com to find his last Idaho address. There was no way I was going to ask anyone for his address and let my actions be known. I figured if I got the correct address the post office would forward it and if I didn't I at least tried.