Week 34

Maupay nga udto sa aton tanan

So I am not sure if everybody heard about the signal 4 super typhoon that hit the Philippines recently... But our mission is gone. Everything in Tacloban is literally gone and has been washed out. There is no more mission head quarters. No more chapel there. Everything is gone. We keep hearing different counts of how many have died. As of right now, we hear that it is 10k.....and mostly the homeless children that live around the church... I still can't wrap my head around it, or come to fathom that my last area there, my friends there, could be dead.... I'm starting to cry in this small computer shop so lemme change he subject....

So, as of right now, here is all the we know... We will have a 2-3 month brown out(no power at all, no water except for the boomba that is all rusty. Thankfully the drinking water place has a generator). There is only one computer shop here that has a generator and it is in UEP(university of eastern Philippines). We see all the videos of the devastation did to and actually how bad it is. All of us are accounted for, though. We are all alive. My area is an 8 hour drive from Tacloban and on a different island. So we were not hit at all. It built up here like a plane landing, and then it landed in Tacloban.

 We went to our Zone activity this morning, preparing to get it off our minds, and President Andaya called, and we have had no contact with him the for the past 3 days. We finally got signal on Saturday night and found out more news, but still were not able to find out how Tacloban was. President called with news from the Area of the Seventy and told us what we needed to do. That plan changed 3 times within the next hour. We were to go to Allen, which is 2 hours away and get on a ferrie and go to Bicol, and from there a flight to Manila and stay there for who knows how long. Then, that changed to trying to get an airplane to land here in Catarmans airport, but that didn't work either... So now we have been asked to wait in our areas for 3 days and then we will know what we are supposed to do. And when we are all to be transferring. That's all we know so far.... And other than that, we are lost. No one can focus and get their minds off all that has happened.... We are all just basically here. And everyone is accounted for!

It still breaks my heart to know of all the pain that has just hit, ans knowing that we can't do anything. Even the bridge that is required to get there, is broken. So we have no way to get there! But, we do have the Lords promise that all will be fine, that everyone has their own plan to return safely to Him and receive eternal happiness, His eternal promise, "And what is it that ye shall hope for? Behold, I say unto you that ye shall have hope through the atonement of Christ and the power of his resurrection, to be raised unto life eternal, and this because of your faith in him according to the promise."Moroni 7:41...The psalm of Nephi has brought great comfort to all of us here and knowing that the Lord will never forsake us, His children. And that we will continually receive his comfort. 

I love you all so very much and hope that all is well in all the places you are. I'll be sure to keep you posted on everything that we are doing and where we are really :) LOVE YOU