Monday, October 13, 2014

         We had another great day.  Glade went for his morning swim while I exercised outside in super great weather.  Workers came to service our AC system and I played new Christmas music for an hour at the Church while Glade studied and did some laundry.  David took us for groceries and it was nice to get out for a little bit.  There was a heavy rainstorm while we were in La Colonia and when it started pelting the metal roof, I had to go outside to see what was making such a crazy sound.  It didn’t last too long and the sun was shining by the time we got back to our apartment. 

         FHE tonight was comfortable and we shared goodbyes with the Starkeys who leave for Salt Lake in the morning.  They will be traveling for a while visiting family before they leave for their next mission to Guatemala in early January.  Wow!

***Oh-Oh.  We just had an earthquake—I’m not kidding.  The couch started vibrating, things on the desk were rattling, and the whole building felt like it was moving!  I stood up and felt dizzy trying to walk across the floor.  I called my neighbor and Glade went outside.  He talked to one of the guards who was eating in the comedor and saw the light fixtures swaying over his head.  He went outside and said that the Angel Moroni on top of the temple was just swaying back and forth!!  It didn’t last very long, but was definitely unnerving!!  We just walked down to take the garbage out; it was raining and we heard sirens, but everything looked just fine and normal. 

Glade just looked up some information about earthquakes in Tegucigalpa on the Internet.  There were two earthquakes in El Salvador today—just 20 minutes ago. That is just west of us on the coast and I’m sure it was what we felt since they registered 7.4.  There were a total of 107 earthquakes in the world today and the biggest one was what we felt tonight in Salvador.  I guess they are quite common worldwide—just not in my backyard.  The computer just keeps updating all the quakes and it is pretty amazing.  Well, I’m calmer now, but it was hard to know in the moment what to do.  

Below are a few pictures from our Home Evening tonight.

Glade and Val Starkey

Brother and Sister Starkey

Pres. and Sister Valle

Brother and Sister Caceras and Pres. Ocampo

Brother and Sister Gomez

Brother and Sister Peterson

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