I dont know if its possible for more to happen in a week.
Tuesday was a sad day. A member of our ward was killed while she was working. She was pregnant.. And the guy who killed her was a coworker who was obsessed with her. She was going to complete a year as a member and was working towards being sealed with her husband and her son. There was a "death march" for her and hundreds of people joined us. The coworker still hasnt been caught.
Wednesday we went on a little roadtrip to the farthest part of our sector called "Patricia Pilar" Its about 40 minutes away, but its still in our ward boundaries so we spent the afternoon meeting inactive members and exploring our sector and eating real coconut popsicles :) (Jorges dog attacked me and bit me. but dont worry IM FINE.) but likeeee i probably have rabies.
jokeeee. lets hope not.
Thursday... JOANNA AND ALEXIS GOT MARRIED. We're so excited for them. Alexis is gonna get baptised next week and they couldnt be more excited :)
now.. The moment youve all been waiting for...
SATURDAY. (the longest freaking day of my life)
They day started normal, we woke up, exrecised, studied, and did our weekly planning session. We went to lunch, ate RICE (Suprising, i know) in a members house. We visited a teenager name Gabriel, and he was pretty chill. Trying to get back to church so we arranged an interview with the bishop, Thennn we took a bus to Nueva Esperanza and visited our Ward mision leader for his daughters 4th birthday party. She was adorable, It was based of of the princess Sofia. She had a dress, there was a clown, They fed us cakeee, and RICE. then we visited a few members in Nueva Esperanza and took a bus to the Nueva Buena Fe to visit our newly weds...
We got inside their house and we were talking to joanna about her pregnancy. (shes got 2 months) Shes super excited. (shes the one who lost her 8 yr old daughter bc she got electrocuted.) Whennnnn ALL OF THE SUDDEN... Alexis's mom runs in and screams "Temblor Temblor!"
The walls started shaking, everything was falling of the walls and shelves; picture frames, Toy, books, dishes...Tiny cracks started apperaring in the walls and we all stood up to get outside or in the doorway, and Joanna fainted. The cars were rocking back and forth. I felt like i was trying to stand up on a swinging hammock. We all fell to the floor, and Alexis was trying to wake up Joanna. Alexis' mom was crying and it STILL didint stop. It mightve been 2 minutes but it felt like 20. neighbors were leaving the houses to kneel in the street to screaming and praying and repenting. The powerlines were swaying, Tiny cracks started appearing in the side walk. Even after it stopped shaking hard, It felt like we were rocking. ME and hermana alacama just hugged eachother the whole time. Alllll i wantedd to do was call my family to tell them i love them. I thought we were gonna die. the power lines were whipping back and forth. It was raining and the power went out. and after it all calmed down, alll i could hear was people crying.
Joanna has a car so they drove us to our house. Everyone was panicing all the stores lost their power. We met up with the other hermanas and went into our house to pack some things and grab some flashlights. We live on the third story. We have little cracks in the walls and floor all over the house. so we walked to the church house. I had my ipod so we played some calming music, locked ourselves in and said a prayer. We didnt have blankets or pillows, i only brought my sweatpants and a hoodie. But we arranged the benches in the sacrament meeting room for beds and we had a rough night. There were lots of crazy noises and voices, car sounds, people crying. And a few blocks away there was loud loud music playing. Jorge says thet they threw a party. Nephi was right when he said some people have the perspective of " Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die"
There were two more smaller earthquakes during the night. But not near as strong. One at 2:15 and one around 5am.
Longggg night.
Yesterday we spent most the day driving around with the bishop to members houses picking up food and clothes to send to the people in manabi. There are so many who lost everything they have. One of our investigators lost 2 nieces, an aunt and a sister in law in the earthquaake. These people are really hurting.
We'll do what we can . Keep Ecuador in your prayers.
