TORNADO
Yep we did
have a tornado in little Washington terrace Utah! Something I didn’t
think Id check or even put on a bucket list-haha!
So it was
last Thursday, it started blowing really bad after the guys got home from work,
Jordan went to mow lawns, dad and I were home and it started to rain, clouds
were dark, we soon heard the rain change direction and hit the front of the
house really hard, so I went to get my fall stuff of the front porch, the rain
was crazy and the wind was so fast, I called your dad to come and see, it was
crazy, it was blowing in a circle in the culdesac, counterclock wise and the
rain was not falling to the ground except in a few spots, it was raining
sideways, then we heard hail hitting the back of the house, thought windows
would break so we went to the back of the house and watched it hail, dime size
hail, didn’t think for a moment a tornado, didn’t look to the sky, didn’t look
anywhere but our yard, silly, when we were on the porch there wasn’t a sense of
panic, the wind was swirling in the culdesac but not on our porch, almost like
we were looking inside….anyways lasted really bad for about a half hour, then
our power went out, we were going to burkley parkinsons wedding reception, and
we started getting notices that a tornado touched down in the terrace, lots of
people asking if we were ok, fortunately we were, the house was good, our drive
to Kaysville was an hour long, power out everywhere, traffic lights out, trees
down, leafs everywhere….well after the reception we began to hear more about
the damage in the terrace, the Sewells house was a direct hit and that is the
house I sent you pictures of, their house has been condemned, along with 21
other homes, it continued to rain until early Saturday morning, our power was
out for about 20 hours, amazing the things we take for grantide, the guys all
got up Saturday morning and went to the senior center to help where they could,
lots of people showed up, funny they put the guys in charge of cleaning gutter
grates and drains, kinda frustrated they did what they were asked and wanted to
more, like with equipment, however that call came later that afternoon, dad and
Jordan used the mini ex to clean up metal sheds that had been destroyed and
loaded trailer to haul off, they also load trees and did that for a few hours,
then Sunday, right after sacrament meeting our family, and a few others took
the mini ex right across the street to a house that had been hit by 4 large
pine trees and cleaned up branches, trees and hauled 6 loads to the dump….we
feel so very blessed to have survived and that there were very minor injuries
through the whole city, it also it a small part of Riverdale, picked up cars
and moved them at sams club and knocked down trees too, Dad and the boys saw
trailers like camp trailers that had blown across the streets and upside
down…such a great blessing that we were missed, Soooo how was your week?How was
the birthday dinner at villanuevas? How was your meeting with Pres Madsen at
his house? Baptims this past week? You are on a roll 😊 And do
you have water yet?
Can you
believe it is conference time this weekend again, seems to have gone fast! And
that also means that this weekend I can say you come home this month, sorry
don’t want to make you trunky, but I am so excited and happy we get to see you
soon!!! I am at a loss most of the time for the words to express gratitude for
the blessing that you are and the blessings that we receive by having a
missionary out serving the Lord! I am so very blessed to have such a great
family and often feel so inadequate, but strive to be a better person because
of all of you and the great examples you are! I love to go to the singles
ward sacrament with dad, I don’t get to sit with him because he is on the
stand, but he looks so happy and is doing such a great job, what a great
example of a hard worker and priesthood holder he is and how grateful I am that
each of you have him to look up to and that you are following, and serving as our
savior would….I love you justeroo, please know that we can feel of your
testimony hear at home and especially on Mondays when we get to chat and hear
about your experiences in the mission field! You are such a great example of
serving without complaint, you serve with your whole heart and your face shows
that you have the spirit with you!!! Please continue to follow the promptings
of the holy ghost and be safe in your daily activity and those things you do, Hope that you have had a very super week and
a great day!
I am off
to go shopping for a surprise party for Gma sheri tonight, her bday was last
Friday and gpa wants to surprise her tonight with all of us there with a story
to tell about her, if you have one, I will share it for you….and I am hoping you
have a picture for me this week for homecoming invite, if not I will pick on
from your blog 😊 I treasure you, be happy and I will chat with you soon! God
bless and keep you in his hands Love you
so much, Mom xoxoxos
WOW i am honestly Shocked that that
happned... haha but im sooo gld that you guys are all good!! i am doing good
and Concilio was super good with president but to be honest it made me really
trunky... because we started to put dates and goals for November and it was
jsut a shocker it honestly hit me really hard... hahaha and dinner for my comp
was really good they are a great family and we didnt have any baptisms this
week... haha but we talked with the stake presidnecy to do a white night... or
all of the missionaries in the Zone are going to be putting baptism dates for
the 22 of ocotber and we are all going to baptize the same day.... we are
hoping that as a Zone we can have around 20.... that is our goal and it would
really be sweet!!! to have a lot of members there and to have around 20
bapisms!! it wold be great!! this week me and my comp went to eat and a sister
gave us a ride but the sister had to pull over and pick somehting up and so she
pulled over and we were on the side of the highway.... its like a road really
busy like riverdale road... and while she was gone we were sitting in the car
with her kid and my comp was on the side of the traffic and he had his arm out
the window just resting... and all of a sudden a taxi flew by and the side
mirror of the taxi hit the side mirror of the car that we were in.... and the
taxi just drove off..... haha me and my comp were kind of shocked and mad and
stayed in the car with the kid and when his mom got back we explained what
happened and she was in shock too... the more we thought about it we knew that
a miracle had happened and that my comp didnt loose his arm,....... it was
crazy.. this weeek we were able to teach lazaro and Lourdes and Flor...
they are having some family problems.. they are the family of Raul... last
night we went over and we started to talk aout the family with thema dn we
dedicated there house.. Good experience! and we have had a busy week and
this week we are going to be planning more of the White night because the Stake
presidnecy is in contact with us alot and us with them... and we also have to
plan a Zone Conference for next week!! soooo im good and happy we have
agua because we bought a pipa... a little truck to give us water.. ha had a
good week! all happy!!
love Elder Weaver
Qs.. sorry the question mark doesnt
work on this keyboard.. ha
Are you guys going to rent a car
because you dont need to.... the family Villanueva is going to help us out
alot... they want to go to the airport to get you guys to bring you to the
white night... so you for sure get to the airport at 7 or 6
i totally for got tot ask president
about the devotional dinner but ill give him a call this week and let you know
next week!
Wow,
you have had a great week! Full of miracles…so grateful that the taxi didn’t
run into the car all together, and that it was just the mirror and that your
comp was not hurt!!! Our plane is scheduled to land at 6:20, but we can rent a
car so we have it for the week… That is soooo nice of the villanuevas, we
certainly don’t want to impose and a white night, how great that would be to
see and attend! We will have to call them and chat as it gets a little
closer…glad that you have water now, do they bring you big bottles of water or
how does that all work? Did you get a picture for invite? Haha! I will
add Rauls family to temple prayer roll again this week, I will call a few
temples…I am bringing a book for Prs Madsen and Villanuevas do you have other
people you would like to give one too, it is a picture book of christs life in
paintings…. What have you been up to today?I talked to Armel today and he said that maddi was bit by a dog last week on the hand, the poor girl cant seem to catch a break lately, add her to your prayers 😊 At the Parkinson wedding Tiffany said that Becca would really like to date you when you get home, and they for sure will be at your homecoming, shes a cutie 😊 see things lining up already-big smiles
yes full of miracles... but honeslty
mom i was over there last night with them and she asked me about things.. and
she offered.. she was totally willing and we can go with them on tours and it
just works out.... there really is no need to rent a car.. ha if you guys dont
want to... nope that would be great for pres, and for Villanuevas.. and today i
went to the secreaty to migration... haha jsut for fun,,, haha could you also
put these names that ill send to the temple.. plese
Ok…that
is ssoo nice of them, just didn’t know if you want to visit other members in
other areas? Up to you, you know the area and who you would like to visit…. So
excdited! You went to migration just for fun- was it as fun as you thought it
was going to be? Do you have all your paper work in order? Is everything good
for you to leave legally? Haha! Yes ill put names in the temple….
im still thinking about that... haha
and how we could do it.. pres said that he could also let us barrow his car to
drive out... haha soo ill check more with them.. not really not as fun... but
yes im all good legally... hahaha
Dad
said he thinks our hotel has a shuttle that would take us to rent a car so
maybe we could do stuff with them for a few days and then we could rent a car
for a few days too, no worries we will work it all out, but be making a list of
things that you want to do, and people you want to see, food you want us to
eat….we can go from there, of course we will do church on Sunday, and we would
like to do the temple maybe Tuesday morning, so other than that we are on your
schedule 😊
soooo excited!!! Is there anything that you would still like to buy for
souvenier to bring home, stuff to remember your mission?
ok sounds good!!!! i think on monday we
are going to visit around and go to some places with the villanuavas and then
on tuesday go to the temple and maybe go out to Etla to visit some people and
some members and then Wednesday we can go and see more sights... im still
thinkin... haha yes a few things... but im still thinking of what...
hahaha
On
Monday will we still be with comp cause its pday? As organized as you
always are I am sure you will have it all worked out in the next few weeks…. Just
an off the wall question, do you know what or where marcus is going to live
when he comes home? I think his mom is in a care facility, last I heard, is he
going to try and play ball as well?
im not for sure but i dont think he
will be with us... i think that he should have his new comp... im not sure i
havent asked.... ill ask though
Gotcha,
if he is with us we can just take him with us for pday, that’s what we did with
jordans comp….so why really did you go to immigration? because the other secretary left with my comp for a sec.. and so i was stuck wit h him and just went cuz he needed to do somethings..
Hmmm, that’s good, are you doing divisions or splits again before you go home? How was meeting with pres last week, what did you chat about?
yes i think ill be doing maybe 2
splits.... with the asistants and with the DL..
Awesome, be
safe! love you guys be safe! you guys are the best! love ya!!
hasta luego!
Love you
tons and tons, have fun, breathe and enjoy, soak up the spirit! Love mom
it rained alot
Yes
you are getting a lot of rain!!! I need to bring an umbrella, is it a cold
rain? Are you staying warm? Dad is still at work but I just talked to him
and he says hi and he loves you tons, keep smiling and being super!!! He is
very proud of you!! You have money in your account if you need anything, please
use it if you need it! So excited for you to see jax play ball, he may
have earned his starting spot back, they play mountain crest this week and they
have lost a lot of seniors to the new high school in cache valley so hoping we
will get another win, he is loving things….he played with a J and #44 over his
heart last game…it meant a lot to him and I know he is anxious for you to see
him play again…the Fremont fans did a lot of damage to the stands and royal
sign after the game, dumped paint everywhere and stomped in bleachers, left
beer cans under the stands, pretty sad, the principles are taking care of
things between the two schools and hoping that it can become a more friendly
rivalary, we have beat them every year since the plain city prayer and they
really thought they were going to get the win this last time, it was a good
game…they showed your play several times on tv when they talked about the game
on the news what are you doing tonight, have fhe?
its kind of some warm rain... i mean its
cold just a tad bit... haha but its all good thats sooooo swesome !! i
cant wait to see him play!! and i cant wait to play again!! honestly haha thats
funny about fremont.. we even bea them my jr year... we womped them... ha
tonight we are going to be having a FHE with a Family taht we want to get
baptized for the white night... well jsut the 2 little kids becausethe mom is a
member.. ha
Where
are you thinking you would like to play? Weber, snow, Dixie? How great to teach
siblings, are their names on the papers you sent? Is there only a mom in the
house? What will you teach them? Have rings for them?
yep i got rings for them and there names
are on the list and there mom is single i think she got divorsed... sadly.. but
we are going to talk about how Christ made his church!! and i was thinking
Weber o snow...
Sounds
awesome! I know that things will work out for you, faith without works is
dead and you are a worker full of faith so I am not worried about you and
achieving your goals!How is Raul and Jose? Are they in the same ward? Do they
want to serve missions?
theya re doing good and yes they are frm
the same ward.. and want to go on the mission!! is fantastic!!!!!!
You
sound super happy today and that makes me happy, am I reading it right? Do you
have a favorite story about gma sheri I can share, or a bday thought/wish? Do
villanuevas have a fb page? Haha! So how does the water truck work? You could
put out rain buckets-haha!
i actually put buckets out today.. and we
called a truck that has a huge water tank and it came and jsut filled up the
water.. so i think we should have agua por como una semana... and its not a
story.... but i always love it when she swears..... haha noo but i also love
the one time we were talking about the guy coming out of the closet in the old
folks home and she asked why he was in the closet.... haha sooooo inoccent..
love her.. idk.... haha
That’s
perfect for gma, thanks, Ill send love and bday wishes! Do you email maddi or
Sydney, does Braden email you? He looks like he is spending a lot of time with
his little bro, I thought we might see him at a roy game, but haven’t yet,
probably because the crowds are so big…I forgot to tell you that jax was at
practice the day of the tornado and saw the clouds develop and Jordan was
driving in it coming home from doing lawns, jace was home by then, kenzi was at
work, it was blowing vents open and letting the rain inside her building, such
a great blessing that all were ok….so crazy
Is all of your rain part of rainy season or hurricanes?
ya maddi told me that she got bit last
week and we write and brayden writes me... haha thats sooo great taht everyone
is good!! blessingSSS!!!!!!!!
names of inv fromt the Zone.. can you put
them in the temple
More
names? You are very busy, how exciting to see the work moving!!
Are they
all the white night prospects? You are busy!!!
yes they are.... hahaha
Are you
taking any of them to conference this weekend? Will you watch at your ward
house? In English?
we will watch in the stake center!!! its
gonna be real great!!