Hey Whats Up,
Wow what a crazy week it has been. So obviously i'm still here and kickin it in oklahoma. Lets see i'll start with what happened on tuesday. So we go to the meeting and think its going to be a normal day like any other one. It was dark and cloudy but thats about it. So we were there and nothing happened really till about 5. Then everybody there started to kind of go crazy saying that there is tornado warnings all up and down our mission and that everybody needs to go and find a shelter everywhere. So our meeting kept on going on and i couldn't get ahold of a campanionship for 30 min so that was nerve racking and then we finally did and figured out that they were in a shelter and everything was ok then right in the middle of a big discussion i guess the sirens went off so we all pilled into a bathroom and waited there for a little while then got out and then were rushed in really fast when President saw a truck go up on 2 wheels. Then after that it wasn't bad at all lots of rain and hail but thats all that happened to us when i was there. The funny thing is that during all of this they had ordered a ton of pizzas from mazzios pizza and they still delivered it all so after that we all ate it in the hall in case something else happened. It was pretty crazy. After that they decided to just call the meeting off and go back and try and help with best that we can. Our area right here didn't get any damage really it was just really windy. But about 15 miles away got hit really bad. So it was a blessing, someone must have been watching out for us. All the missionarys are safe and nothing happened to any of them. Wednesday we were expecting to go and help clean up but that didn't happen so we tried and did service around in our area. Then on Thursday for a good chunk of the day we went up to peidmont which is only about 15 miles away from us and helped clean up some of the stuff. We got tons of pictures of it. It was crazy to see some of the damage. There was places where there was nothing left but a concrete slab and right next to it was a whole house with little damage. We helped with what we could going through everything looking for stuff to save and moving some walls and stuff out of the way. It was really a humbling experience thinking about that and how they lost almost everything. We helped with one particular case in where we just were asking if somebody needed help and they ended up being a member that we didn't even know about. Its crazy how the lord can still do his work even with a big disaster there. He said that he thinks that this is a sign that he should start coming back. And good news is that I was the only one out of everybody in our group to not step on a nail. I thought that was pretty good. Bad news is that my last area got hit really bad. Blanchard got pretty much demolised and then chickasha got hit too. Right next to a members where we were all the time. We are thinking about going with our ward down there on saturday to help clean up, if we can get permission to do it. Thats pretty much what we did this last week is help with all of that and then tried to talk to people but they were kind of distracted especially with it being memorial day weekend. So hopefully this week will be a good week and we will be able to find more people to teach. I'm doing good, tired but good. I'm really tan now and got massive tan lines, but didn't get any sunburns which is good. I guess when i was getting out of the car or something my jeans got caught on something and ripped on the back pocket. I'm not having to much luck with jeans anymore. So i have to buy some more sometime i'm hoping to push it back for a while but i might have to if we go down to blanchard so i figured i'd wait on sending home the pants. My companion and i are doing good, we get along 95 % of the time but he sometimes tries to push buttons since hes bored or to make him laugh so thats getting a little bit annoying but oh well. The transfer is almost half way over with and i can't believe it. I like the pictures it was good to see everybody. And it sounds like y'all had a way busy weekend. Hopefully it will settle down and everything will get back to normal. I'm doing good can't complain about anything so yeah. Well i think thats it for this week. I'll talk more next week about how the work is going we didn't get much done this last week i don't think many missionarys did.
The picture of the kitchen is where we were helping. The picture of the car in the rumble is right across the street. The car is in the middle of the slab of concrete. And thats about all thats left is that.Well talk to you next week!
Love y'all
Elder Downs
And mom here you go heres some more pictures of me so that you can show everybody.
The first one is Elder Naisbitt and Elder Cronister and me, you can't really see him though. Naisbitt is from hooper and thinks that he framed kylies house.
The next one is after a district meeting its everybody in our zone pretty much.
The last one is last pday playing ball. You can barley see me but it was a blast.
I'll try and take more for everybody i haven't been doing good at that.
Love ya
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