First Hurricane, and Potato Chip Sandwiches

Hello everybody!

      

    Sorry that it's been a few weeks, I've been super busy on Mondays lately. We had a "Zone Preparation Day" last Monday, which is where a bunch of missionaries from around here got together and we played Frisbee and soccer and had a good time. Hence, I didn't really have time for emailing, so I'm sorry about that!

      

   These past few weeks have been great! We've been spending a lot of time on campus and have found a lot of new people who want to meet with us, which is great! There was a football game this past Saturday night and we were out trying to teach people but it was pretty hard to teach people who can't put together a straight sentence because of drinking all day. Oh well!

    

    I was playing Frisbee two weeks ago and sprained my ankle, which was awkward. Apparently spraining an ankle on a mission doesn't work too well, because I've was walking on it all day for the last two weeks and it's getting better really slowly. Whoops. No rest for the weary!

     We had a hurricane here this past weekend!I It was pretty exciting. The storm hit late on Saturday night and was basically done on Friday morning, in Gainesville at least. We weren't hit as hard as up north a little bit, like in Tallahassee. Still, our mission president asked us to be in our apartments at 6 and stay there until Friday afternoon. We had a lot of wind that ended up knocking out a power line during the night.

      Elder Day and I woke up to an 85 degree apartment. Not very comfortable... Our power was out until we got back at night, but a member who lives close was kind enough to refrigerate our food so nothing really went wrong. We went for a walk in the morning and it was just weird... It was a little windy but there was just no sound. No animal noise, which was really weird... Altogether, pretty neat! We didn't hear anything about it really, just an alert that there was going to be a hurricane coming through, some emergency procedures, and nothing more. That was weird, not knowing everything about the storm. 

First thing we saw outside our apartment. Usually this is a 25 foot deep hole for water drainage so it was weird to just have a new pond at our doorstep just from the night's rain. 

This is Abraham left, and Ade. Abraham was baptized two weeks ago. He's so great, I love him!

Besides young missionaries like me, couples can go on missions after they're married. Sister and Elder Booker are so great! They don't have the same schedule as missionaries like me do - instead, they teach classes here, make dinner for church events, and other great things. 

I had to include this picture of my dinner a few nights back. Sometimes you have to be creative when it's the end of the month and most of your food is gone. Don't question the nutritional value of this meal. Trust me, there was none. 

      

   Have a great week everyone! Good luck to my Lawrence friends who will be starting school next week!

                             Elder McMullin