Riding the Tornado!

Oi!

 

What a week! In all honesty it was a little rough. Elder Maciel and I planned a great week full of appointments with our current and new investigators, but in the end EVERY appointment fell through... We also had to drop our baptismal date with Laura. She doesn't feel ready for baptism and has some obstacles to overcome. I know she will be baptized someday, but she needs time. On the bright side, we have an awesome new investigator! Her name is Audrey. She is roommates with some of the recent converts in the Centennial ward. We haven't been able to teach her yet, due to moving, but she has been to church twice and already desires to be baptized and have the gift of the Holy Ghost. We are very excited to teach her this week. We also have received some referrals from the zone leaders and spanish sisters that have great potential. Even in the hardest of times, it's amazing the blessings our Heavenly Father will pour upon us!

 

Saturday was exciting. Elder Maciel and I finished our Just Serve hours picking up garbage on 35th Avenue (we adopted 6 miles of streets that will soon have signs that say "adopted by the LDS Missionaries"). We hurried home to take showers before heading to an appointment. When I got out, I found Elder Maciel and Elder Hanks running up and down the stairs. Elder Householder and I joined them outside to see what was going on. There was a tornado warning and we stood outside to watch the storm begin. We watched the clouds begin to form a column. The sky was really dark and before too long, it was hailing  and raining so hard that we couldn't even see down the street. All the missionaries were ordered to stay in for the evening. Several tornadoes touched down in Northern Colorado. Two touched down in Greeley (one of them less than a mile from us), but there was no major damage. It made an exciting end to a crazy week!
 

Elder Alexander James Hamilton