Why hello!
Just for the record, we are safe indoors. For awhile, Hurricane Irma, which is the strongest hurricane on record EVER to come from the Atlantic ocean, threatened our little Corner. But fortunately for us, the storm went up the West coast of Florida so it should only be a tropical storm when it hits us. Pray for Florida and Georgia, and especially for the little islands that have been absolutely devastated by this storm. We are good!
Well, as you can probably guess, this week was crazy. On Monday, we didn't really do anything much, but the elders were nice and made Sister Haws some chilli. I don't like chilli so I didn't eat any, but Sister Haws said it was good.
Tuesday we heard that there was a storm out in the gulf and it may or may not hit us. It was more like a "oh, cool" reaction than a "OH MY GOSH WE ARE GOING TO DIE" reaction, because at that point it was way too soon to tell whether or not we would actually be affected, plus we missionaries are so out of the loop that we had no idea just how big this storm actually is. We just did our normal things and had interviews with President, who is still the very best human. Man I love that guy. And then we went to see good ol' P. And then we played games with the S Family.
Wednesday we found out that the nursing homes were all being evacuated. It was funny because we went to one to visit a member who lived there and the front desk lady was like, "Dude we gotta get y'all out of here!" Apparently at that point it looked like it was headed straight for us. There was rumors of evacuation even then for us, and so anytime Sister Haws and I saw a car headed the opposite direction from us, I would say they were evacuating. Sister Haws was so done with my shenanigans by the end of the day. We went EVERYWHERE too, all the way out to Jamestown and back! We played soccer with some little investigator kids and met a less active named M. She was awesome and we should stop by later this week.
Thursday we didn't go to Mepkin because people actually were evacuating already. We knew we probably would too, so we mostly just checked up on some of the elderly members of our ward to make sure they were okay. That was pretty fun. We also did some door knocking and it was so not as scary as I thought it was going to be. We actually met a really nice guy named B. He was a cute ol man and I sang amazing grace for him. That night at Book of Mormon class we received official evacuation notices from the mission. Sister Goettsche got to call me and tell us we were going to Irmo!!
So the next day at 9:30, we departed. We took some country back roads instead of the interstate which was probably the best decision ever because we made it to Irmo in 2 hours and for the rest of Charleston zone it took about 4 hours. Lol. Also, we passed a lot of really pretty churches and if we go back that way I am totally taking pictures there. So when we got to Irmo we just kind of chilled because we were going to weekly plan but then we didn't know when we would be back so we just read conference talks and wanted to kill each other because we were so bored because the Irmo sisters (Fausett, who came out with me, and is training Asay) actually had stuff to do so they left us alone. It was like the worst thing ever. And then we received a text from our zone leaders telling us that the assistants had a YSA activity that we could come to so we were like OKAY GREAT SOMETHING TO DO and we went. Actually Elder F asked us if we would judge the contest with Elders L and S. LOL. It was a lip sync battle and I think that my ears are still bleeding from all of that worldly music. The assistants did a lip sync to the missionary version of Hello by Adele. It was ridiculous and hilarious, especially Elder J who is much of the time serious and put together but just went absolutely ham. It was hilarious.
The next day we actually did missionary work!!! We went finding and then delivered the Book of Mormon to some Turkish guy who worked in the mall and he gave us free sunglasses. I got a weird pink pair. I went with Sister Fausett (Sister Julander's MTC companion) and it was so great! She is also small and blond and very straight up about things so we had lots of good conversations. I appreciate her lots. That night we taught the A family and their friend C who is interested in the gospel, and we also visited the A family whose 3 little girls recently got baptized. They are so cute! But they have cats and I almost died. Later I took a Benadryl and was moderately high for the rest of the night.
Sunday wasn't the same without my ward people. It was really sad, and also we found out Brother R is MOVING and I HATE EVERYTHING. But it was still a good service, the talks were good and the ward here is strong. I enjoyed it. After church Sister Haws made me stay in even though I am not sick!!! But we just chilled while the Irmo sisters went out. It was a boring time. Then we got to go to a devotional with the Charleston, West Columbia and Columbia zones. I got to see ALLLLLL the people I've served around, minus Sister Cordon and Sister Julander. It was such a fun time to see Elder M, Elder D, Elder D, Elders C and P, Sister Janke, Sister Goettsche (again) and loads of other friends. We sang Ye Elders of Israel and As Sisters in Zion respectively and then learned about eternal marriage from Elder Bednar (which was kind of weird...we were like, "President, we're missionaries"). Also someone made a meme of President and Elder F and it's perfect. When I get it, I will send it.
And that brings us to now. We're indoors and we're sooooooo bored. Someone send us ideas. We're dying. Help! I need a big help! (That is a Sister Haws-ism.)
We are safe! Don't worry!
And don't let the muggles get you down!
All my love,
Sister Pew
The next day we actually did missionary work!!! We went finding and then delivered the Book of Mormon to some Turkish guy who worked in the mall and he gave us free sunglasses. I got a weird pink pair. I went with Sister Fausett (Sister Julander's MTC companion) and it was so great! She is also small and blond and very straight up about things so we had lots of good conversations. I appreciate her lots. That night we taught the A family and their friend C who is interested in the gospel, and we also visited the A family whose 3 little girls recently got baptized. They are so cute! But they have cats and I almost died. Later I took a Benadryl and was moderately high for the rest of the night.
Sunday wasn't the same without my ward people. It was really sad, and also we found out Brother R is MOVING and I HATE EVERYTHING. But it was still a good service, the talks were good and the ward here is strong. I enjoyed it. After church Sister Haws made me stay in even though I am not sick!!! But we just chilled while the Irmo sisters went out. It was a boring time. Then we got to go to a devotional with the Charleston, West Columbia and Columbia zones. I got to see ALLLLLL the people I've served around, minus Sister Cordon and Sister Julander. It was such a fun time to see Elder M, Elder D, Elder D, Elders C and P, Sister Janke, Sister Goettsche (again) and loads of other friends. We sang Ye Elders of Israel and As Sisters in Zion respectively and then learned about eternal marriage from Elder Bednar (which was kind of weird...we were like, "President, we're missionaries"). Also someone made a meme of President and Elder F and it's perfect. When I get it, I will send it.
And that brings us to now. We're indoors and we're sooooooo bored. Someone send us ideas. We're dying. Help! I need a big help! (That is a Sister Haws-ism.)
We are safe! Don't worry!
And don't let the muggles get you down!
All my love,
Sister Pew
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