15 October 2018

Now that I think about it, this week marked the third hurricane on my mission. While I was flying into NC, we had Hurricane Irene that we tried to land in at Atlanta(I think it was Irene), Hurricane Florence in September, and now Hurricane Matthew just a bit under a month later in October. And my mom probably thought going stateside for my mission was safe. It didn't do too much to us, but our mission president didn't allow us to leave the day it hit. Weird, right? This week we had a really cool experience, though. Our most progressing person had an issue of his granparents hating the church. They didn't want anything to do with it, and they didn't like that he was getting taught by us or going to church. He lives with them and can't drive, so that made it very difficult to teach then as they didn't want us to come to their house. But this week we found put that their house was damaged by Florence, so we got to go over in a weekend crew and clean it up. They were grateful and we had a good talk with his grandpa. We're hoping we'll be able to get to talk with them more and get their approval for his baptism! We've also gotten in contact with some of our people we were teaching before Florence and pick it up with them again. Another cool thing that happened this week was also service related. One of the members here invited her friend to come out with us and help the clean up efforts last week, and he came this week too, even being there for church. Even cooler, he accepted to take the lessons/discussions or whatever you want to call them. Afterwards, the member mentioned to us that she had been trying to get him to go to church and talk with the missionaries for a really long time but he'd never wanted to do it. Things are looking up here, and transfers aren't until November 6th, so I still have some time left here! Then again, I'll probably stay here for at least one more transfer anyways. That's all for now, bye!