Earthquakes and Hurricanes!

Hey Everyone!

Wow it has indeed been an eventfull week haha. I will start out by telling you about the earthquake on Tuesday :

So we were at district meetings over in Mt Vernon. Afterwards we went to lunch with one of the guys in the office. Then we headed to our apartment to change out of our suits. I was in the bedroom and had just finished putting on my tie. I went into the bathroom to start brushing my teeth. Everything started shaking! I thought it was someone upstairs running around so I just kept brushing my teeth. Then it kept shaking and started getting worse! I walked out of the bathroom and both my companions were standing there like what is going on....then we realized it was an earthquake and we all ran outside hahaha. It was crazy though! Everyone in all the apartments ran outside....everyone was crying and scared out of their mind. It was the biggest earthquake I think ive felt. It was scary! There wasn't any damage done really though. I guess the temple had a couple things break. One of the apartments had their water heater pipes all burst and it flooded their apartment. It was nuts! Now I guess were waiting for a hurricane to come our way! I don't think its going to be to bad honestly. I think its supposed to just barely skim DC. President is getting everyone prepped just in case and having everyone get 72 hour kits and all that good stuff. The biggest concern is power outages. Since their are trees EVERYWHERE they like to fall on the power lines. Im sitting here in the mission office looking out the window and its pooring like crazy! And the wind is picking up. We will see what happens! And someone tried to rob the bank right next door haha. Their are FBI cars and cops everywhere. We dropped off a missionary at the airport this morning and were going to pick one up later this evening. Besides that we are just getting a few things done here. Not to much going on today.

On sunday there is a girl named Matenah getting baptized in Mt Vernon. Me and one of my last couple comps Elder Morrill found her while knocking doors and taught her for a while. Im excited to go back hopefully and see it! I love Mt vernon as you know so it will be good to go back if I can. We had a leadership meeting this past Thursday. All the zone leaders and district leaders meet together and have like a mini zone conference type thing. It went really well. We gave an assignment on how to become shepherds of our areas and our missionaries. It went well. Then we had a couple other missionaries talk on motivation and different things to help each other out. Then later on my and my comp led a council with everyone on different ways we can better the mission. Its always kind of stressfull planning the meetings but once they come and go and they are a success it makes it all worth it.

Well I love you guys! I hope you all had a great week. Be safe!!

Elder Davie