Y'all,
It is still just incredible to me to see the destruction that winds can cause. We went out to help cleanup in Lake Charles again this weekend, and I just wish we could do more. While some buildings emerged completely unscathed, others have 50 ft trees through their roofs, or the wind just completely blew the roof off. We saw one house that had previously been on stilts, but got knocked down. The only reason you could tell that it didn't used to be a ground floor house is the car crushed halfway underneath it. And there is so little we can do to help, we can tarp roofs and process fallen trees, but so much of this work will have to be done by professionals, to get power back to these people. The fellow we were helping on Saturday said that they might not get power back until January. It is all tragic.
Speaking of the hurricane cleanup, yours truly is on the churches news article about it. You have to scroll through the pictures a little, and ignore the mask, but Elder Gregory and I are in there. And speaking of Elder Gregory, he is headed home tomorrow, so a big salute to him. I am staying in Eaglesprings, Elder Johnson is my new companion. It will be nice to continue to be able to work with the S__'s and the rest of the ward, I am looking forward to it.
Oh! For anyone wondering, Elder Saftsen, my last companion, is currently on the airplane to Sweden, so he is finally getting to go to his original assignment! He stopped by yesterday to say bye on his way to the mission home.
Other than that, we filmed some videos for Facebook, taught some repentance, baptized converts, well, not the last one. But hopefully here in the next month.
Elder DeFord
P.s. we had to take another Elder to a doctor's appointment in Houston, so we got to stop by the Houston Temple and take pictures.
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