17 September 2018

So, we got hit with a hurricane this week. That was interesting. It was supposed to be a category 4, nearly a 5. Instead, it slowed down before making landfall (about 35 miles from my apartment) and was only a category 2. The really crazy thing is the path that it took. It was originally headed straight for Raleigh, but then curved around it, going into South Carolina and then going up into Ohio and that area. Huge miracle there. But what happened woth getting evacuated is interesting. On Tuesday we got a call that we were evacuating to Fayetteville in an hour, and so we took off. We got there and were picked up by a member named Brother Mckoy. He was super awesome, and we filled our time there with reading, playing clarinet and playing foosball. That was pretty fun. We had power the whole day we were there. The next day, (Wednesday) we got a call to leave for Raleigh in 40 minutes. We were caught off guard and so we had to shove everything in our bags and leave again. After we got to Raleigh, we got picked up by a member family called the Woodalls. They were a ton of fun to talk to. We also got permission to do more things from the mission president, including watching family friendly movies and the news. So we got to watch Coco, which was a way better movie than I thought it would be. It might just be that I haven't seen any movies in a year, though. But we spent 5 days with them. It was mostly a lot of watching the news, talking, and reading. I also got some more good cooking experience. We don't have a lot of news on how Wallace is doing, but we know there is a ton of flooding. Our apartment is probably fine. We might be here for a week or two months. No specifics here. We might be able to go out and help starting next week, but everything is still up in the air. Everyone we know is still pretty fine. Yesterday they told us to go to the stake center and now we're going to be with other missionaries working. Not too much is known, but I'll have more info.