Oh man I don't even know where to start with this week. This has probably been the longest, craziest week on my mission. It seemed like it took FOREVER. Maybe it was just because everything was out of the norm and I wasn't getting the groundhog day effect of doing the same things every day haha. I hope I will remember everything...
It started Monday right after I got done e mailing you. It was raining and windy but nothing crazy when we left the library but we got a text saying we all had to be inside by 1 Monday afternoon and weren't allowed to leave until they told us we could. We were just super board in our apartment all day Monday but then president said if we had appointments Monday night we could go but other than that we had to stay inside. We had one at like 6:30 so we went to that. After that is when things started to get crazy. We were walking out of the appointment and the wind had picked up a ton and the sky kept lighting up green from transformers blowing up everywhere and the power kept flickering. Driving home we kept getting hit with branches and stuff from the wind. We were driving down Lake Rd which is this way long straight road and as we were driving everything just went black. It was kinda cool, it was like a movie. I looked in my rear view mirror and just saw all the lights going out in a row till the whole city was black. No stop lights or anything. It was actually really weird being in a big city but having it be completely dark. We kept driving and made it to the bridge which goes over the bay and man I thought it was gonna blow the van right off the bridge. We like kept going back and forth, I couldn't keep it straight. We finally made it home and luckily Elder Curtis had his little flashlight so we found our way in. We just planned like normal and then hung out with the assistants for a while before bed. The wind was just howling at that point and you could even hear the waves crashing and sometimes a tree falling inside our apartment. It was seriously so loud. I took some Advil pm and put some ear plugs in but neither of us slept very well. It got pretty cold in our apartment and the wind was just so annoying. Tuesday morning we got up and got ready and showered with our little flashlights. Luckily there was still enough warm water for both of us to get 5 mins each of luke warm water before it went freezing. We had cereal with warm milk over candlelight for breakfast, haha then we just had our normal studies with our flashlights. It like didn't even get a little bit light till like 9 and even then it was still pretty dark. Then it got rough. I went back to bed for an hour, studied, worked out a little and just like sat around board to death until like 6. Then president called and told us to come to the mission home to spend the night. It took us like 30 minutes to drive 5 to the mission home cuz every road we took had a tree down but we finally got there. It was us, the assistants and like 12 sisters there who all didn't have power. It was actually pretty fun, we just studied the scriptures about storms and sang hymns and stuff, it was a good time. Slept much better that night and then in the morning we all studied together again and then everyone left at like 10. We went back and our power was still out Wednesday morning. We went out that day and did our best to work and stuff. Our power came back on at about 7 Wednesday night. We were lucky. Some members just got theirs back Sunday night. It has been interesting the damage you see driving around. Just hundreds of trees down, some smashed on houses. Out of everyone I know here only 3 members had damage to their house. Saturday we literally spent the entire day helping people clean up yards and chop up trees and stuff like that. It was fun, but man my back was soar. I haven't worked that hard in so long haha. Everything is pretty much back to normal now. I have never seen so many power trucks in my life so it looks like they were working hard to get everything fixed. I am sure it is still a mess further east though.
If the storm wasn't enough to make the week crazy we had some more curve balls thrown at us yesterday. We had our ZDM yesterday and President pulled Elder Curtis and I into his office. He had to let Elder Curtis know his grandma passed away. The mother of his uncle that just passed. Poor kid cant catch a break. He is taking it really well though. He was pretty quiet the rest of the day. This one was unexpected. Then President pulled me aside and let me know we were gonna be in a triple up this next transfer... He said he hated to do it to me while I was training but we had an odd number and needed someone that knew what they were doing to take on a "newer" missionary... So now I pretty much get 2 greenies haha. I assured president I still had no idea what I was doing but he wouldn't change his mind. So this transfer is gonna be pretty weird. I hate being in triple ups but oh well we will make the best of it. Oh and in other bad news President nixed us playing in turkey bowls this year. I was upset cuz I didn't get to play last year and this ward has a huge one. Not sure what the difference is about playing football on p day and on Thanksgiving but whatever. Its not like I came here to play football anyway. Well that's about it I think. I just can't wait to move on from last week haha.
I like your Christ and the government thing! I may use that sometime. I am so excited for this to be finally over though ha ha. It has been wonderful for the church but man I am sick of hearing about it haha. Some guy just walked up and he was like so you think Romney is gonna win tonight? I just said Who? with a confused face. haha His face was priceless. Well I hope you have an awesome week!
Love ya!
Elder Skalla
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