This week was super weird and didn't feel like real life!! Leading up to the hurricane, we were told to prepare and to stock up because our power would go out. We were told that we would need food and we would need to fill up our bathtubs with water so we could force flush our toilets, so that was an experience. Every story that we went to was out of bread, milk, juice, eggs, water, and meat (I don't know why you would want to buy meat if your power went out but I guess I can't judge). The few days before the storm, everyone was prepping or they went up state to avoid the rain, so they were not home. We did meet one new person though (“W”). We talked about religion, why we are serving, and gave him a Book of Mormon. When we were leaving he asked us to come back when his wife and daughters would be home so we could talk to them, so that will be dope when that happens!
Wednesday night we got a call from our mission president asking us how we felt about staying in Orangeburg and we told him we were great and that we had a lot of members lined up who would help us if we needed it, so he said that was good and he felt good about it too. Thursday afternoon we got another call from him saying that he felt like it would be best if we evacuated and went and stayed in Columbia during lockdown, so we packed in two hours and went to Columbia! President Innes also told us that he had gotten a call from Elder Stevenson saying the first presidency prayed for us in the temple! HOW COOL IS THAT!!!! While we were on lockdown we had to stay inside and it was really boring. We tried contacting people but most of our days were spent eating, sleeping, playing games, and studying! It was honestly terrible because you just stop feeling like a missionary, so we are so glad to be back and working to share this amazing gospel!
I am so glad that the hurricane did not hit us as hard as they thought but I am saddened to hear all of the damage that it cause to North Carolina. Please keep them in y'alls prayer still!
A good read for the week is Alma 34 and also Elder Uchtdorf's talk “Point of Safe Return”.
Well, I love y'all and I hope y'alls week is blessed!
Love,
Sister Jensen
So happy you are safe! Now, about that horn on your head....,,,! 😃
ReplyDeleteBailey, where did you stay in Columbia? Sister Lauren Peck is in the same mission as you and also went to Columbia. She's been out a month longer than you. Don't know if you remember us (Robert and Shirley Krans). We lived in the Murraydale Ward same as you. We moved to Caldwell, Idaho almost 5 years ago. That's how we know Lauren. We are in the same ward as her parents.
ReplyDeleteSo happy that you have been safe. We have a friend who's son in in North Carolina and is in the way of the hurricane! Haven't heard today if he is okay?
Glad you are safe and I look forward to reading your Blog. Shirley Krans