GUYS GUYS GUYS!!! I'm alive! Woo Hoo! What a few couple of days it has
been. I don't even know where to begin. Crazy stories thats for sure. Cleaning
poop from the tub/toilet, trying to steal a couch from the Elders, having 4 more
sisters stay at our house, and cleaning up the crazy mess.
I dont have a whole lot of time so this one might be a tad bit short but
hopefully I'll be able to catch up a lot. We started hearing about it on
Thursday and kinda making some preparations but not a whole lot. We didn't know
exactly what was going on because....no electronics. No TV no nothin!
Tuesday we had a district meeting and went and visited members and had
dinner with them. The ward here is incredible. They are so nice and so awesome.
Wednesday was so cool! We were up in Parsippany and we were walking around
trying to find someone to find and so as we were walking Sister Dicou said:
"Okay, pick a number?" So I said: "Okay, um 13." And then she said okay "Letter
A". So we were at an apartment complex and went to go find 13A. As we found it
we walked up to the door and saw a Romney Ryan sign in his door. As we knocked
on this door a man came out. We started talking with him and found out he plays
the organ for the Catholic church and very good at playing the piano. We
continued talking and then got a return appointment with him. As we walked away
we were so excited and so happy we found a new investigator. Sadly enough, we
were supposed to go back on Monday but it was the middle of the storm so we
couldn't go back but we're planning on it. Anyway, that was awesome. Thursday
was walking day and we did our regular appointments and then found another new
investigator. It was incredible. That sunday before the week we fasted to find
new people to teach and we found almost one new investigator everyday. It's
incredible to see that fasting really work when we fast for a purpose.
So I'm going to skip to this week because I'm almost out of time. Sunday we
were teaching and got word that some Sisters in Jersey City were going to have
to be exacuated and as well as some Sisters in New Brunswick. So we got 4 new
sisters in our apartment. Of course we needed to get a couple more mattresses so
we went and stole them from the Elders apartment because they were going to stay
at the mission home. I carried a mattress up by myself which was pretty cool. I
have pictures but I'll have to send them next week. After that we thought we had
a great 'strategy' and go and steal the couch from the Elders because theirs was
so much better than ours. So, we carried down our couch, (took a Friends shot on
it) and carried it up to their apartment. Little did we know their big couch
wouldn't fit outside the door. So it was stuck, it was hilarious and so much
fun. Moral of that story: don't move anything until you have a "strategy". It
was so great. Monday we were cooped up in the house and couldn't leave AT ALL.
We got kinda crazy. But we made flautas, smoothies and then pumpkin chocolate
chip cookies because we still had power. The storm started coming around 6 with
strong winds and rains. It started getting dark and I introduced Grant the Game
to them. THEY LOVED IT! We were playing and all of a sudden the power went out.
We went into a brown out (really dim lighting) But didn't lose complete power.
THANKFULLY. The storm continued all through the night and I did see a tree fall
right outside our apartment that pulled down a power line. It was crazy to see
the damage but it reminded me of the wind storm. We went to bed with loud winds.
The next morning we woke up and were all just hanging out in the room and all of
a sudden heard this HUGE BOOM! Another power line out. It was crazy. We had to
stay inside Tuesday as well. We started going crazy, played more Grant the Gam
and never have I ever. Wednesday we finally got to LEAVE! And we went to the
mission home and showered and then went and did service. We actually didn't do
any but yesterday we got to finally help move trees and rake leaves. We got
awesome pictures that I will send next week.
I can't wait to get out and serve more people. This is what I love to do. I
can't wait. The sisters that have been staying with us are incredible. Sister
Lowry (from Canada :) ), Sister Santos from Florida, Sister Herrera (from
Arizona) and Sister Petersen (from California) They are all spanish Hermanas and
so great.
Oh yeah, and we're definitely in a state of emergency, gas lines are crazy
long just to get gas because the power is out all over and people are using
generators to function. We waited an hour in a half for gas today. It was
madness and still is.
But I'm okay and well. I've been having a headache for quite a while now
and getting sick, but i'm functioning and trying to do the best work I can. I'm
grateful for your prayers and all the support.
The church is true. New Jersey is great and beautful and I love you
all.
I will send pictures next week. I'm sorry I haven't gotten back. We got to
come to the mission home and email so I'm grateful for the President.
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