Hi Mom and Dad!
this week was slow...haha. The
anticipation for the hurricane really threw everyone into a panic. everyone got
there 72 hour kits together, the bread and granola bars couldn't stay on the
shelf, and people were buying bottled water like they had a pet camel at home.
It was crazy! Some gas stations even ran out of gas.....everyone was panicking.
(From her hand written letter : “
Walmart is PACKED right now, everyone is buying Rice, Water and SPAM! “ , “ we are the only sisters in the zone and
are well taken care of”)
As for the missionaries, we were
told to get our 72 hour kits together (along with a change of clothes, our
journals and scriptures) and put them in our car. We had to be available by
phone at all times in case we were given evacuation orders. We got a call
Friday morning and the Zone leaders were like "it's been determined that
your pad is not a safe place to be during a hurricane" (because we live
down in a valley and they were worried about flooding. there is only one way in
and one way out of the valley so they decided that we needed to get out) So
they told us to leave our pad as soon as possible and head to the sisters' pad
in makakilo (the next zone over).
Before we left we hurried around and pulled all of our
papers and beds and such away from the windows and then hurried to the car. we
drove through some crazy rain and wind, but as soon as we got out of mililani
it was all sunshine. we were like "what?" . so we stayed at the
sisters pad all morning.....we were like "woah....free time......what do
we do?" being a missionary, we schedule every 15 minutes of our day so we
were just supposed to stay in the pad and do what?!!?? nothing........................
so we were a bit shocked at first but then we had fun. Thanks for the emergency
chocolate mom:)
We were kinda hoping that we would get to see a crazy hurricane
blow a palm tree over....but nothing really exciting happened....just a little
rain and wind. After a while we got the word that the storm had past and that we could
return to work.
also, last night someone in our apartment complex was smoking pakalolo..O MAN it smelled so bad....so we lit
matches all around our house to kill the smell.....eww! dont do drugs!!!
this week our super solid book of
mormon reader didn't get to come to church because he got called into work:(
but he is still doing really great
and we'l meet next week.
love you all and aloha
