Mormon missionary Kendall Levine critically injured in Australia
STANSBURY PARK – A community unites for a Utah missionary Kendall Levine who was hit by a car near Canberra, Australia.
Levine, 20, has been serving for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sydney, Australia for the past year.
She stepped out of her car to take a photograph of a double-rainbow when she was hit by another car passing by.
Levine was taken to the hospital with head trauma and internal injuries and placed in a medically induced coma.
She was slowly coming out of the coma as her parents arrived in Australia to be by her side yesterday.
A star athlete, Levine was a former Stansbury Park High student and was on a basketball scholarship at Casper College in Casper, Wyoming.
She deferred her studies in order to serve when the announcement was made to lower the age requirement for missionaries.
Friends and family came together and raised over $1,000 before Levine’s parents left for Australia.
“Right now, there’s over 500,000 people fasting for her. There’s people who don’t know her fasting for her,” said Jenn Klenk, a family friend.
“Kendall just kind of makes a family out of everybody. Everybody that she touches.”
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