Week 83- Where to begin, how about with the EARTHQUAKE that I just lived through

   Well this week I experienced my first earthquake ever and it was awesome. The night before the earthquake I did a baptismal interview for the other Elders in the ward and we decided just to have interchanges for the whole day, so everything went well and when we woke up in the morning, everything was normal, half way through compañionship study, my seat started shaking, I honestly had no idea what was going on at first but Elder Poyner got up and yelled EARTHQUAKE!!! the whole building that we were in starting shaking back and forth, it was like trying to stand up on a dirt cike in the middle of a race, just alot of bumps and waves, the door and everything started waving back and forth and things fell off the table. I'm not sure if it was dumb or smart, but the first thing that came into my mind was to take out my camera and record the earthquake, so I whipped it out and started recording, sadly my camera ran our of space after 1 second of recording, so I have no evidence,  it lasted for like a minute and a half, I looked outside the window and saw all the telephone poles and building shaking and waving back and forth, everyone was outside in underwear, frankly the nudity was more shoking than the earthquake. We never even left the building, you would think that after years of worthless earthquake drills in school, I would of learned to get under a chair or leave the building. The power went out as well in the middle of the earthquake and our phone signals, so we had no idea what had happened to the rest of the zone, after about an hour we found Elder Hernandez and Elder Lopez alright, and after a few more hours we got hold of the rest of the zone. There really wasn't much damage done, because the city learned from all of the other earthquakes in the past, but there was some walls crakced and roofs cracked, actually there wasn't any damage done the church, that just shows that a good foundation provides the strength to overcome the earthquakes of the devil!!

    Right after we got phone signal the bishop sent us a message saying : "elders how are you?? alive?? alive enough to talk in church sunday?? haha so we prepared our talks ( all 6 elders) and  each one had 5 minutes nothing more, and we also had to sing a song in front of the whole congregation, we pracitced without music, the song He sent his son, it's a primary song that I love, and being easter and everything, it fitted, but when the sister put the music on in front of everyone, we realized that we were way off rhythm, not tone, but rhythm. half of us followed the music, and the other half followed what we had practice, and basically it was the most embarassing moment of my mission, as we botched really hard the song. Not one person complemented us haha, and when the first 4 elderes gave their talks, Elder Hernandez and I got ready to give ours, right when the first counselor said that we would be hearing from someone else yeah, so we didn't talk, but that's ok.

      Apart from that, Elder Hernandez and I are doing a ton of work, we have lessons planned every half hour and the spirit is stronger than ever in the work, were doing serious spirit contacts, so almost 90% of the contacts accept a visit and 50% become new investigators. The baptism this week of Iztacalco 2 was really sad. The water was green and almost no one showed up, but she was a serious convert. The elders quorum president is struggling a lot with his quorum, almost no one shows up, so he asked for the help of us 6 to do divisions with the quorum and visit the less actives, he made us stay for hours , which made us late to a really really important lesson. I learned a lot of patience  and calmness, sometimes you just can't do anything, and even though you know that the people are going to blame everything one you, you just feel calm haha.

    A less active that we were working really on with, ran away from home, because her family chased her out, and she's pregant now, so that really hurt us . It was the bumber of the week, that and I have to buy another memory card because mine is full now!! 

                                                    -Elder Ordway