This is my friend Danny. He has been a guest at the hotel I work at for over a year now. I first met him while being a house keeper, but when I started working the night audit at the front desk is when he became my friend. Danny worked different hours at his job, so there were a lot of nights that he couldn't sleep. He would come down and talk to me at night sometimes for an hour. We talked about vacations, family, jobs and life in general. He had just told me a few weeks ago that he found a house here and was so excited to move his family up to Utah and when he talked about it his face just lit up with excitement! He was just a super sweet man who could just make you laugh. A few weeks ago he left the hotel and didn't come back. We worked together with the police department doing everything possible to find him. I had the hardest time, because I knew in my heart that something was really wrong. My coworker and friend Julie was really good friends with him also. She also spent a lot of nights getting to know him. She amazed me, because she knew just where he would be headed and we called all the hotels, police station and really anywhere we could think he might be. We found nothing. She even got in her car and started to drive to the town she thought he would be in, but got a phone call saying that his car had been found so she turned around and drove home. A little while later she received another phone call saying that the car belonged to someone else. After four days of searching for him we got a call from the family that he had been found. He had rolled his car going just where Julie said he would be and he had passed away from injuries due to the car accident. On one hand I was so relieved that he was found, but on the other hand we had just wanted so badly for him to walk in the door with that smile on his face and chat again. I know that Danny is in a better place now and that he really knows how many people just love him. Life is short and you never know when your time on earth will end, but I know that the Lord has a plan for each of us and that he puts people in your life at different times, people who have an impact on you in different ways or you have a impact on them. I found this quote the day after I found out what had happened to Danny.
FOREVER, FOR ALWAYS, NO MATTER WHAT
Monday, August 8, 2011
My Friend Danny
This is my friend Danny. He has been a guest at the hotel I work at for over a year now. I first met him while being a house keeper, but when I started working the night audit at the front desk is when he became my friend. Danny worked different hours at his job, so there were a lot of nights that he couldn't sleep. He would come down and talk to me at night sometimes for an hour. We talked about vacations, family, jobs and life in general. He had just told me a few weeks ago that he found a house here and was so excited to move his family up to Utah and when he talked about it his face just lit up with excitement! He was just a super sweet man who could just make you laugh. A few weeks ago he left the hotel and didn't come back. We worked together with the police department doing everything possible to find him. I had the hardest time, because I knew in my heart that something was really wrong. My coworker and friend Julie was really good friends with him also. She also spent a lot of nights getting to know him. She amazed me, because she knew just where he would be headed and we called all the hotels, police station and really anywhere we could think he might be. We found nothing. She even got in her car and started to drive to the town she thought he would be in, but got a phone call saying that his car had been found so she turned around and drove home. A little while later she received another phone call saying that the car belonged to someone else. After four days of searching for him we got a call from the family that he had been found. He had rolled his car going just where Julie said he would be and he had passed away from injuries due to the car accident. On one hand I was so relieved that he was found, but on the other hand we had just wanted so badly for him to walk in the door with that smile on his face and chat again. I know that Danny is in a better place now and that he really knows how many people just love him. Life is short and you never know when your time on earth will end, but I know that the Lord has a plan for each of us and that he puts people in your life at different times, people who have an impact on you in different ways or you have a impact on them. I found this quote the day after I found out what had happened to Danny.
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