Semana Loca

Well this week was an ADVENTURE.

Just starting Saturday actually. The week was pretty normal until Saturday. Oh, Saturday. Hahah. Okay. SO, it was raining. A lot. But, no importa, we work in the rain. So we went at 11 to Cerro Alto, the pueblito next to Los Alamos where we work a lot. We had a few appointments before lunch. We get off the bus and it's raining so hard, and the wind is ridiculous. We were just dying of laughter because we were like this has got to be a joke! So anyway we went to the first lesson with this lady named Delia and it was a really great lesson. While we were in her house we heard the wind outside sooo loud and I was just thinking oh my gosh we are going out in that in a couple of minutes. Haha oh well... So we left her house and it was NUTS. We were walking down the street and um well, fences were being blown down, roofs were being blown off the houses and flying in the air.... At this point we were kind of scared. The wind was literally blowing me we had to hold onto a fence. Yeah. Crazy. So we passed by a member's house for a minute to calm down because we were kind of freaking out. We sang a hymn and said a prayer with her and then took the first bus back to Los Alamos to go to lunch a little bit early. So we went and by this time there was no water or electricity OR cell phone service. We ate lunch with them and decided this was just too crazy and unsafe so we were going to go back to the house and wait out the storm a bit. Study and stuff in the house. So we walk in the house to find it is raining INSIDE the house! OUR roof had blown off, and water was coming in from the ceiling. Ayyyy yi yi. Everything in the front room and the kitchen was soaked. All of our books (minus our scriptures, tender mercy from God), pamphlets, area book, everything. Soaked. We were just like ahhh what do we do!!? Thankfully the roof over our bedroom was fine. So we put all our books in plastic bags and put them on our beds. Packed a couple things in a bag and went straight to Hermana Ana's house. She is like a mom to us here, so sweet and has a 21 year old daughter Grace that just went to Concepcion to work so we're even more like her daughters. Well she went to work right away to make us feel better, made us some soup and told us we could stay the night there. So we did. But we were stressing out because no one knew what was going on with us or our house. We couldn't call our leaders to ask them what to do. In the morning Sunday we went to Sacrament meeting and then decided to go to Cañete because Elder Morales always knows what to do. We found them thankfully and of course within about 5 minutes he had a place for us to go to eat lunch and a house for us to stay in that night with the members in their ward. Well, there's been lots of traveling back and forth from Los Alamos to Cañete and lots of stress and NOT working, which has been weird haha hanging out with the members and the zone leaders and yeah I've felt more like Danielle than Hermana Anderton lately which is weird. But... Today we found a new house, it was a miracle and we love it. The people JUST moved out yesterday and we found it today. Hallelujah. We're staying in Cañete again tonight and tomorrow afternoon we're going to be moving in to our new house. The members here have been SO SO wonderful. Feeding us, giving us shelter and love. They are so wonderful and I am so so grateful. It's been stressful and hard and during all this we had interviews with President and haven't been able to teach and it's just been really different. Definitely an experience I will always remember. TAKE CARE OF THE MISSIONARIES!! En serio.

I have remembered a lot lately the scripture in Matthew 25 when Jesus Christ says, ''Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of these, the least of my brethren, ye have done it unto me.'' Remember that always, and serve your neighbor whenever you can. Don't worry family, all is well. I've worn the same clothes a bit more than usual and haven't slept in my own bed in a few days. Buuut I am fine. We are being helped by lots of members, our zone leaders, and Heavenly Father.

We have this AMAZING family that we're teaching right now, they are seriously such a blessing. We haven't been able to see them or contact them because of all the weather craziness. But they are super special and I love them.

I love being a missonary and I hope all of you help the missionaries wherever you are.  :)

Love you all tons. ¡Nos vemos!
Hermana Anderton