hey
president told us to write our families real fast there was an earthquake
yesterday like at 7 in the night but were i was it wasnt really strong so
nothing happèned to us over here in babahoyo but in other parts of ecuador its
kinda bad in guayaquil and in Esmeraldas but here just a bunch of scared people
and happy birthday Dad!!!!!
I will also just say he is such a
good boy because before we received this email from him, he had already given
our email address to a sister in his area and asked her to let us know that he
was ok. (not anticipating that President Riggins would have them send their own
email out.)
hi
mom!!!!
I asked him how bad the chaos was.
haha
its not that bad but do you want me to tell you were i was when it happened?
Then our email wouldn’t refresh for
about 10 minutes. GREAT timing!
ok
so we were teaching this member family and asking for a reference and when we
finished up she was like come and eat So we ate really quick and we were just
about to leave and the dad started to talk to us so we talked a bit so we were
talking to him but i knew we had to leave cause we had a bunch of appointments
but then the kid in the family was like look and he pointed to the tv and it
was shaking and in ecuador there is all ways these things called temblors and
the ground just shakes a bit and they happen a lot so i thought o cool then it
got really strong and i was like ok this might get bad so my companion was
holding the tv to make sure it didnt fall and i was holding the fridge! which a
thought about later if it was stronger the fridge would have killed me so i
learned something there but then the power went out and then i got kinda scared
hah but it stopped after like 60 seconds then and the family was like crying
and stuff so we sang some hymns and said a prayer and we had to go straight
home after that.
oh
also i bought fabric today for like 13 bucks to make some pants im going to
send it to a guy in the ward that can make pants
I asked if he anticipated doing a
lot of service now or if things would be mostly normal teaching.
regular
work there were a few houses that fell in another sector and all of sunday the
other missionaries were helping out but we literally got un invited to do that
cause i guess the zone leaders wanted us to work ugh but i really wanted to
help cause its not like everyday you get to help clean up after and
earthquake!!!!!
oh
and we were going to have multi stake conference with colombia and peru and
venesuela but cause this happened there were people that had to sleep in the
church so it all got canceled for Ecuador but i heard in the other countrys its
they all had there
I reminded him to trust his leaders
and that maybe there was a reason that he wasn’t on clean up duty.
ya
i was kinda ticked up oh well i guess there is a reason we have leaders and we
should trust them...
i
heard colombia could feel it but im sure they didnt have to cancel anything
but
last night was funny cause all the members were like oh theres going to
be another one! and it going to be bigger!!! hah so we had to pack a backpack
with clothes and stuff that we may need but nothing happened but it was sure
hard to sleep
I told him I was surprised that
things were so bad in Guayaquil because they are further from the
epicenter. They are more developed and have more cement
infrastructure. Cement doesn’t do well in earthquakes.
ya
its kinda weird but i guess people died and everything!!! in the mall
apparently a lady was just walking and a giant peice of cement fell on her head
and she died instantly! but i guess we are super blessed here in ecuador
I told him that I was glad the home
he was in did not suffer damage.
ya
and we were in a bamboo house and still nothing happened it was super crazy and
we were just swaying back and forth
only
stick houses fell that are over water
only
like 50 houses fell and there not even in our ward or my district only in one
ward called barrio lindo and the zone leaders are over there
my
sector is the poorest in babahoyo and almost all the house are made of bamboo
and nothing fell it was pretty much a miracle haha
its
good but i have to go now but everything is ok here thanks so much for your
thoughts and prayers and i love you all
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