Hurricanes, Hospital Visits, and Mall Security

 Holyyyyy!!!! This week was WILD. Well, first off, sorry this is so late! I am heading to the temple and they changed my pday, so I guess this is like 2 weeks... I'm not dead! The hurricane passed by us and we did get a tornado where I'm at!! It was terrifying! We got like 10 warnings that said, "extreme danger: get in a closet now" one of which being at 5 am. I could hear the wind super loud outside, so I woke up my companion and she listened for a second and said, "it's fine" and went back to bed. 😂 It's all good. We survived. The day before Ian passed us, it was raining super hard, so we did our studies in the garage with the garage door open and watched the rain! That night we ran out and jumped in the flooding street because we had to bring our garbage can in hahahaha! It was so fun! We had all our hurricane shutters up and it felt like a cave in the house. While we were putting our shutters up, there was a snake in our yard!!! The best part about everything was that two of the sisters nearby had to evacuate and stay at our house, and guess who it was? SISTER YOUNG (my MTC companion) and her companion Sister Bevan!! It was a party!! 

Next part of the crazy week you'll have to buckle up for... 

We kept hearing noises that sounded like footsteps coming from our attic. We thought we were going crazy until the other sisters came and heard it too!! We kind of freaked out because there was a hurricane, so we couldn't have anyone come check it out. So...we decided to be brave and check it out ourselves. We went into the attic and there was SO much insulation that there was no way it was a person living up there. We figured it had to be an animal! We had the ZL's on video call and they looked in the attic with us because they happened to call at just the right time to be involved. 😂 We named the animal Walter, and we put out some bread for him. The next day we heard him less and then basically not at all the next day. We were positive that Walter had died. 😬 Turns out the whole time it was pinecones being smacked into our roof from the hurricane wind. 😂 It's become a joke in our house. Anyways, before we figured out that Walter was just pinecones, I went on exchanges, and that night I went out to change the thermostat and about died when I heard rustling and cupboards closing in the kitchen! I flipped out and ran back into my room to grab Sister Merrill and when I did, she heard it too! We locked the door and called the other sisters and they said they hadn't left their room, so we got pepper spray and went out and nothing was there!!! At this point we were all just exhausted and tired of all of the noises in the house. Sister Davis needed a blessing the next day before she went to the ER (I'll get to that) so we had the Elders bless our house while they were there. Everything has settled down! Weird! 

So as I said above, my companion had to go to the hospital. She had been having stomach pains and a big bump was forming, so we went to the ER. We got it figured out and she will be fine after she takes antibiotics, but let me tell you, those antibiotics make her CRAZY!!! 

Last story: we put out sticky notes at the mall again and we got a call from MALL SECURITY telling us that someone complained about "hand written sticky notes soliciting"! You can't sell Jesus. 🙄 Anyways. We had put out over 70 sticky notes and we had to take them all down!!!! 

Miracles: we were all safe and the house was blessed. The couple we are teaching are praying about baptism!! 

Invitation: listen to the Saturday evening session of conference!! It was AMAZING! I got so many answers. 

Sorry this email is hecka long! There was just soooo much! I love you all. You've never gone too far to feel God's love and turn your heart to Him. He loves you!!!! ❤️