10 September 2018

This week is going to be a little hectic, or it could just end up with us sitting around for a while. A Category 3-4 hurricane is coming into North Carolina on Thursday or Friday, so we'll probably get moved further inland. I'm one of the closest to the ocean, which will make life a little more interesting. We have a safe house with one of the members in the area, but they said if it's a 4 they're leaving the area as well. We got told that our entire zone (the whole Wilmington area of missionaries) is likely getting pulled into Fayetteville to sit out the storm. Everyone these past few days has been getting ready for (and are very focused on) Hurricane Florence coming in. It's really crazy how much it has been talked about. The stake presidency is having nightly meetings about it and what they're going to be doing. I'm willing to bet that we're going to end up just doing clean up for a little while as well.

For the news around here of this week, there isn't too much to report. We didn't get to meet up with J at all still, he's been having a really rough time with his health. We're hoping that he gets better. William has been doing well, but he hasn't been reading in the Book of Mormon. We've been helping him out around his house though, and apparently he's very grateful. He offered us each a few hundred dollars for everything that we've been doing, which we turned down. We kept on trying to explain that we only do this for free and because we want to help people, as well as having a rule that we can't accept money from people while we're on our missions. That only made him determined to track us down after our missions and pay us then. He's a determined man. We also recently got to have dinner with the Branch President where he talked to us about bee keeping, which he does as a hobby and makes a lot of his own honey. Which is delicious. Oh yeah, and we had some car troubles too. I don't know what it is, but they seem to have issues around me. In Raeford, I got flats all the time. Here, the touchscreen in our Malibu died. So we got to spend about 4 hours between two days at a Chevy dealership as they fixed it for us. That was interesting. What was really cool was getting to be right up next to my dream car, a 2017 Chevy Corvette Grand Sport that they had in the showroom. 

Honestly, I think that's about it for this week. Not too much has been going on, but I can almost guarantee that next week will be a lot more interesting. Nothing like a hurricane to shake things up a little bit.