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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Get you in the Georgia Dome on the Fifty Yard Line

A VOLCANO ERUPTED AND IT RAINED VOLCANIC ASH/SAND FOR HOURS!!! It was the craziest thing, and the streets and cars were all covered in it. It's the closest thing to snow that I can get I guess, but it was INSANE. PEOPLE DIED!!!!! They closed all the churches yesterday 'cause a hurricane was going to hit Guatemala!!! There also was ACID RAIN, and my arms kind of burned the night that it happened. It destroyed one of my favorite white shirts. All the schools are closed this week. There was some really insane rain the other day and we were walking in a river. The streets were rivers! It was ridiculous. We baptized this little kid last Saturday (even with the tropical rainstorm), but almost nobody came. The kid we baptized was super funny though. I was going over the baptismal questions, and I asked him about the word of wisdom and what things we can't use. He said this,¨Um.. tea, coffee, cigars, gallo (beer)..... and.... cocaine.¨ Haha! It was pretty funny. Anyways, maybe I´ll stop praying for snow because I get volcanic ash when I do, and people will die. I´m fine by the way... as far as I can tell, but I´m sure I´ve contracted some type of cancer from this filthy air I´ve been breathing. A reporter died, who was filming the volcano, 'cause a volcanic rock hit him in the head, and his camera man got burned (almost to death). Then the flooding killed like 13 people in the zone next to ours. A drain pipe broke and there was a 30 metro (like 130 foot) sink hole, and some houses fell into it. One of the chapels was like twenty feet away from it. Roads are being destroyed. Oh, and they turned off all the water because the pipes would have got clogged with volcanic ash, so we didn´t have water for like five days. We were using rain water to flush our toilet. I also went on a division with this kid who´s in my group, and I was in his area. We were contacting, and I talked to these two ladies that were just standing outside of their house. I asked them how they were, and they told me they were sad 'cause their neighbor just DIED. We told them it would be o.k., 'cause God has a plan for us and we can live with our families again, or whatever. Anyways, we kept walking and we saw this lady crying. There was a taxi in front of her house taking people to the hospital. We talked to her and we told her who we were. We asked her about what had happened, and I told her that we have a message that will help her and her family. She told us, ¨You can help us? How are we going to pay for the ambulance, and the funeral? She has four kids she left behind! How are we going to be able to afford this?!¨ It started to rain, and this woman clearly was more concerned about the loss of money more than the loss of her sister, so I told her we would just come back another day to share our message. But it started to rain hard, so she told us to come in her house. We went into the worst house ever, full of twelve people (all crying), two chickens, four dogs, and a duck. Anyways the lady told everyone that we could help them, and we taught the plan of salvation. It was pretty much the worst circumstances ever, and they probably didn't hear one word. I really had an interesting week, and I´m fine along with everyone else.. that didn't die. K, have a GREAT week! Lemi know how Colorado iz, k? love airn

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