Phew I survived this week. It has been a pretty crazy week as far as 'almost life threatening' things have happened. I will tell you what happened. On monday, we were on our way to FHE. FHE is 20 min away and in the country. We were rounding a corner and all of sudden, a deer was in the middle of the street! My hearrate increased and I didn't have control of the car so I was praying really fast that sister moyes knew what she was doing. I don't know how she did it. This instance seemed to go so fast yet so slow. I will give you two view points I had. 1) I saw the deer and his head was turned toward us just looking at us. I am sure the deer was thinking, oh no. i am going to get hit. what am I going to do? Then the deer decided, "well maybe I should get out of the street." So at that point, the deer was scrambling to get out of the road. It seemed to have troubles doing that. Almost like he could not get his feet to move very well. 2) while all that was going on I was thinking about us. There was a car behind us and I hoped and prayed he would stop. Sister Moyes she stepped on the brakes really hard and made a screeching sound. It was really loud and (how she did this I know not) she honked her horn. To me, that would not be my first instinct to honk the horn. Later she told me that the spirit overcame her and she did not know how she honked the horn either because that was not her first response. Phew. We were saved. We did not hit the deer. We did smell the burnt rubber of the tires though. :) Later that night, as we were coming home, we almost ran into another deer. It was crazy.
Tuesday, it happened. TORNADO!!!! Okay. So, we got up at 6:30 to go exercise and it was really really hot. It was weird and the clouds looked weird and it was pretty windy. We got in and got ready for the day and at 9:00 our district leader called and said to stay in because there was a tornado warning/watch. I could believe that because shortly after we hung up, there was a HUGE storm. Rain was coming down in sheets. Sheets and sheets of rain was pouring down. It was quite an amazing sight. We had a basement so (we should have been better prepared earlier) we gathered up some blankets, food, first aid kit, flashlights and headed for the basement. When the siren sounded we rushed to the basement. Although I thought it would be so cool if I could go outside and see the tornado. I was not really scared. They siren went of and went back on soon after that. We were cautious and stayed in that morning. When the winds died down and the clouds were not so dark, we went outside and worked. It sure was cold though after all that rain and wind. It was pretty awesome.
Wednesday, we saw a old house and hiked to it. On the way we also saw an old cemetary. While looking at the headstones, we were walking and I looked alittle ahead of me and saw a...snake! (and no mom, it was not a turtle haha). I was scared. Once I saw that snake I darted the other direction. I said, 'Well, no more exploring this area anymore." It scared me.
Sad news though. To me at least. Grace McClure is a member and she was less active for a while and she (when I got here in this area) has been making great strides to make her life better. She has been doing great. She is such a cute lady of 50 years. I saw her on monday and she was just cute and bubbly as ever. Well, yesterday morning at church we heard the most unfortunate news. Grace had passed away two days previously and they just found her body laying in bed that morning at 2:00am. I thought someone was pulling our leg when they said that. She seemed to be okay earlier this week. Something must have happened. They don't know what happened though. An autopsy is being done on her and hopefully we get some news. I don't really understand why it took so long to find her body. She lives with her daughter. Granted they don't have a great relationship at all. So, it is pretty sad. I want to cry but I don't think it has hit me that she has passed away. Not til the funeral I don't think it will really hit me. But I am doing great still. Just a little sad. :)
Sorry to leave on such a sad note. I have to get going though. I love all of you very very much. I will talk to you this week. christmas is just around the corner. :)
Amanda
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