Whoa week 10. What happened? I swear I just got here and its already almost December. Time definitely does fly when you are busy all the time.
So this past week has been absolutely insane. How do I start. Well we had splits with the zone leaders on Tuesday into Wednesday, and that was pretty fun. Getting to see other missionaries is always fun, being banished out here in Yerington. We finished the lessons with the 3 kids that we were teaching (ages 9-10) and so the ZLs came up for the interviews. Everything went well, but one of the kids (Desaray) was saying that she wasnt going to be baptized because she didnt know if she could keep the word of wisdom.
Keep in mind this is a 9 year old girl. She was saying that when shes older shes going to want to drink tea and cofee. At first we were like whaaat!? We figure it was just because she has an older sister who does all that and isnt a member. We finally found out that she was just scared and doesnt like doing anything in front of people. So we finally told her everything would be ok and this and that and she decided to do it. So that was good. Then the night before the baptism we get a call from the other girl (Kimmy) and she said she wasnt gonna do it because she wanted to wait for her mom. Long story short on that is that if she waited for her mom it wasnt going to happen. Her parents are split up and her mom went crazy and so that wouldnt have happened. Finally the morning of though we got there and everything worked out, and they all did it. It was a great baptism.
So this past Friday was an interesting day. We woke up and had our studies and we could just here the wind going crazy outside. It was super windy.
Normally that is our Hawthorne day and we got calls saying the roads were closed to Hawthorne because it was too windy, semis and things were getting tipped over it was so bad. So we decided to go to the Cliftens and make our baptismal programs and get that outta the way. A little later we get a call from brother Allred who was in Carson. (We live with the Allreds fyi.) He says, "Elders could you run back to the house and check on it and make sure Sister Allred is ok? The house is on fire." We were like WHAT?? So we rush back out of town to the house and the road is barricaded off from both sides and the Sherriff wouldnt let us through. We kept tellin him hey our house is right there can we go make sure Linda (Sister Allred) is ok? And prepare to evacuate? He kept saying no, there is a cop already going around telling people to prepare. He was just yellin at us tellin us no in that jerky cop way. So we were like forget you! And went back a little and down an ally and hopped like 6 fences and went through backyards to get to our place. We got in finally and there were piles of leaves around the house on fire and some of the trees were too. We were sure the place was gonna go up in flames. We ran into the house and started ripping our stuff out of the closets and putting them into our bags. Sister Allred was trying to get some stuff together too. We realized there wasnt enough time and a fireman came in and said guys you dont need to quite yet but be ready to evacuate. So we closed the door and just got out Journals, scriptures, and camera and that was it.
Kissed the rest of the stuff goodbye. A man came in and said guys Linda is leavin its about time you get out of here. So we said ok and shut the door to gather things together and then all of a sudden a different fireman busts in and starts swearin at us and tellin us to get out now. He grabbed Ferguson by the collar and threw him outside onto the gravel, then did the same to me. We were like dude calm down. He starts swearin at us again sayin if we go back anywhere near here we would be arrested. We were like uhh this is the first time we were told to actually evac.. cool your jets. And then we left. had no idea what was gonna happen. The wind was so bad all it did was feed the flames and kick them around. It was bad. Longer story than this already long story short.. Everything was eventually ok, the house just got really smokey. So it smells bad.. but they were eventually able to get the fire out that evening. All it really took out was the majority of their fence and some of the trees. So thank goodness.
Moral of both stories are that the power of prayer is real. In both situations we prayed so hard for everything to be ok and to work out. In the end, everything did.
2 Nephi 32:9 ----> Moroni 7:26.
Love you all!
~Elder Lowder
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