Hello everyone

well i survived my first tornado it happened Sunday night we just got back to our place for lunch then we get a text saying that a tornado warning is in effect and to check local news for more info well we couldn’t check local news so we just waited to hear the tornado sirens it started once and only for a minuet be we were getting ready to go into the shelter our apartments have then it stopped so we just thought oh well let’s just see what everyone else is doing and some were walking to the shelter and other were just hang out outside looking up and the sky which was starting to get stormy and grayish greenish color to it then the tornado  sirens went off again so we thought might as well go in and we were do there for about 45 minutes and when we went up it was still raining pretty hard but the storm had passed and was heading up northeast. Our car had tiny dents from hail but other than that it was fine. but there were some other elders north of us about 4 miles or so and they got hit pretty hard there front window was broken their car had golf ball size dents in it and the sides of their buildings looked like it was hit by a bunch of pellets from a gun it was crazy to see the damage and there was at least one touch down and it was only an F2 so that was pretty exciting this week.

oh and earlier this week when we left a member that we visit every week this guy yelled over to us saying “hey elders” we went up to him and he told us that he had served a mission back in 08 and now he just moved in to that apartment complex we asked if he still needed any help moving in he said no but his roommate needs some help so later we came back to help and as we were heading over there we weren’t sure if he was active because of the way he seemed and when we were helping his roommate move in we learned that he really hasn’t been active since he had joined the Air Force and he “just happened” to move right above our high priest group leader. After we helped get everything moved in we invited him to church and he told us that he hasn’t been for a long time but he does want to help out with the scouting program and maybe that will help we’ll see how it goes

Elder Birch

Here’s some pics right before we went into the shelter

Then when we got back to our apartment

The other elder’s window and some of the hail after about an hour or so