At 330 in the morning i woke up to my really crappy bed being shaken like crazy and i knew it was an earthquake and so i yelled TERREMOTO!!! CORRE CORRE! haha and we all ran out of the house. well first i was still in my bed for about one minute trying to figure everything out. my comp sleeps really hard so i had to freakin wake hiim up so he left with us. we ran out side and my roomates all ran back in the house because they were only wearing there gs haha. it lasted for serioulsy about three and a half minutes. after like thirty seconds outside i ran back in the house (during the earthquake.......hahha ya i know im an idiot.....) to get my camara. so i have a video of the earthquake i will try to send you. after it finally ended we went inside and got dressed and went to our member friends house to see how they were. there house was pretty thrashed. well just the stuff. the structure was luckily fine. our house is still safe to live in. we spent sat and sunday morning in cabrero helping and we had the sacrament and after that we were walking back to our house and walked past a couple supermarkets and saw that hundreds of people had broken the doors open and were stealing everything. it is seriously really bad where i live. we couldnt stay there becuase everyone is going freakin nuts. we had to leave because everyone thinks we have a lot of money becuase we walk around in church clothes and so we left to los angeles to be with all of our zone. my mission pres also told us 3 weeks ago if we ever had a earthquake go to our stake centers where all us missionaries could be together. well none of the freakin busses were going so we had to hitch hike. hahaha our first nice person that took us was an old guy that had a cart being pulled by a horse. so we were cruising down the highway in a horse drawn cart for about 20 min! it was freakin awesome. and then we had two more people stop and help us. it is 80 kilometers about 50ish miles im not sure from where i live in Cabrero to los angeles. so we finally arrived to the stake center to find that it was very dangerous and a lot had collasped. no missionaries were there. so we didnt know what to do. we wandered around looking in the houses of the missionaries and different churches that we knew of but we couldnt find anyone. after about three hours a car full of 4 members of the church yelled hole elders! so we waved them down and they stopped and they took us to the church. oh man we were so freakin glad we saw those members.
so as of right now we are staying in a different stake center with two zones. so we are about 25 missionaries staying there. we spent the night there last night and all day today. i dont know how long we will be there tho. we have food. water. electricity. and ping pong!!!!!!!!!!!!! i like it a lot. we spent the morning helping people put fallen walls and stuff in piles and various service. thats all we really can do.
concepcion is so freakin thrashed. thats where my mission president lives. he couldnt call us because his phone has been dead so he took a wire from his car engine and connected it somehow to his phone and he had power to call us! all the missionaries are alright. we just dont know what is going on.
oh man i was so glad i got to call this morning. it was amazing to hear your voice mom and dad. i really appreciated your concern for me more than you know. i am doing great just know that and we are all taken care of. i appreciate your prayers so much thank you. now just pray for the people instead! haha
ha i was thinkin, if just in the first month and a half of being in the mission i have dug up three dead people and lived a 8.8 earthquake what more is going to happen to me?
as of right now i think i have all my stuff. but when we return to cabrero (whenever it is) i dont know what will still be there. there is a ton of looting where i live i heard. their jacking all the stuff in houses.......so well see. hopefully they steal my scriptures so they read them and repent!
i found out that my next comp will be a american elder hieser or something. i will live with two more americans and one columbian.
oh ya! haha we a card board sign that said "los angeles" and the radio said that there was two mormon missionaries hitch hicking, one gringo (me!!!) and one latino(my comp!!!) hahaha when we heard about that we laughed way hard.
the news is makin things look really really bad. dont get me wrong things are bad but not as much as they make it look. its their job. to make people think things are worse i swear. but concepcion is actually really bad. missionaries that we leaving this week cant, missionaries that were coming this week cant either. so well see!
wow! so emily went to the house with you all last night. awesome! im excited to hear how that went:)
well i love you all so much. thank you for your prayers and hope everything is going great for you all. have a great week and ill try not to die.
elder elder.
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