Earthquake and Hurricane

So this week there wasn’t anything really big going on…… just my first earthquake and hurricane, so you know nothing to big… haha

                But I'm safe and doing really good. The earthquake felt like I was in a vibrating chair for only 20 seconds so it wasn’t anything big but still it was my first one. Now everyone seems to have forgotten about that because of the hurricane that hit. So we kept getting both sides of the story before Irena hit some saying it was nothing others making it sound like it was going to be the end of the world so we didn’t really know what to think, but then on Thursday night we were told that 4 elders from Greensville where going to spend the weekend at our house. The next morning they came and throughout the day we would get sudden gusts of strong wind and rain then it would go away and in the evening there was just a little sprinkle nothing too much and we woke up the next morning to the same thing. But right at 8 in the morning it just hit and it was high winds with a lot of rain…. So we were stuck inside just waiting Irena outside, nothing really happened to our house only a little leaking from the back door and our power going out (for 7 hours) but besides that we we did play a few games like; if and then, and trash can basketball haha.

                Now the next day was a little different… there was no church because there was no power and all the damage that had happened. The 6 of us had our own sacrament meeting and it was really spiritual as we all shared our testimony’s but then we got into our work clothes. Can you guess were we went?....... If you guessed the golf course then your right!! Haha the member that owns it really needed help as you can see from the pics. But we were out there the past two days just doing all we could to move these trees. It was a lot of work and it felt so good to do service. What made this hurricane so bad and caused so many trees to come down was that this storm was so big and moved so slow through our area that the rain was making the ground so wet and then the wind was just blowing and blowing. So the trees just came down all over the place. There were a few trees that went into homes.  It looks a lot better today than it did a few days ago. We were also so blessed to get our power back so fast. There are still a some people without power, but something that has been cool to see is how neighbors and strangers just help all they can sharing generators and food it has been really cool.

                So that was my first hurricane and it was very interesting but I am safe and just looking forward to help even more people. But boy, I tell you I'm a little tired. And the only thing that happened to me was my camera decided it wanted to stop working…. So im back to old faithful haha    

                I love you all so much and thanks for the prayers they helped so much!!

ELDER MAUGHAN