Holy cow.. Last night was insane.. When we got out of church yesterday at 4, the there was a huge dark cloud of brown smoke in the sky. At around noon yesterday a fire started right near Silverwood Lake, which isn't too far from where we live in Hesperia. By the time evening came around the sky was just completely full of smoke and the fire had burned about 1500 acres and was 0% contained. When we came in last night at around 9:30, we found out they were going to be evacuating our whole zone down up to Victorville! It was crazy.. When you cram 8 Elders into a small apartment, you're asking for one crazy night! But it's doing better now. We're moved back into our place in Hesperia and sky isn't AS full of smoke as it was. The last I've heard is the fire has burned 4500 acres, but is now 5% contained haha.
Other than the fire, this week has been a fairly good week. We saw Yolanda, who is still making a recovery from her surgery. We saw a couple of our investigators that we haven't been able to contact for a while, which was really good.
We finally made it over to Jeremy's to help him clean his apartment! But it didn't really go the way we thought it would.. He wanted to start my clearing off a couple of the tables he had that were clutter with junk and bottles and bottles of pills. We literally dumped everything off the tables into garbage bags. We were about to take the garbage bags out, but Jeremy stopped us and said he didn't want to get rid of all that stuff; he just wanted all the stuff in garbage bags to get it out of the way. So we set those bags aside and got some separate garbage bags to put in everything that was for sure garbage, like used paper plates and empty macaroni cans. After a couple minutes he said, "alright, that should be enough." Elder Paxton and I just looked at each other like, "what??" We hadn't even made a dent. Jeremy kept saying that he was too scared. He was too attached to all the junk lying around his apartment. It was pretty sad, but we ended up helping him type up his poetry, which was good for him.
Life is good. We all go through hard times, and each of us has our own unique challenges, but remember that everything will be alright. Your heavenly father loves you and he is there for you :)
Stay positive and love your life!!
Aloha ke Akua
-Elder Johnson
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| Serving at the Lord's Table |
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| Fire too close to home.... |
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| Sunday night evacuation |
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