Gustav

From Joram's 9/9 Letter:

"Alright i don't even know where to start, it has been a crazy few weeks and i have about a thousand emails to answer so let see. This has been insane. One friday the 29 or something we evacuated New Orleans and headed up to Baton Rouge, they put all of us in a different missionaries house. We ended up in a city called Gonzolas about 10 minutes south of Baton Rouge. We were staying with quite a few different missionaries. Pretty much every pad has anywhere from 6 to 8 missionaries. On sunday we had an abreviated Sacrament Meeting and then were on lock down in members homes until Tuesday. We didn't get hit bad at all where we were at but pretty much every other area got nailed. New Orleans didn't get anything but Baton Rouge was hit pretty dang hard. So since then we have been going out in our yellow Mormon Helping Hands shirts and helping the members and pretty much everybody else. Its been quite interesting and also it has been a interresting change from prosliting everyday to serving. It was wierd to put a white shirt and tie on yesterday for the first time. On sunday we had church in our yellow shirts on the hill of the stake center looking at the temple. It was pretty cool, we had Elder Gay of the 70 come and talk to us so that was cool.. So yeah this week has been crazy. After Tuesday we moved out of the members homes and have been cramped 8 to an appartment with out power until Saturday. So that was nice to get AC back again. ... With the hurricane we were supposed to have transfer calls a week ago, but we just barely got them last night. I am staying in metairie, which is was cool, we have tons of good investigators so that is cool."

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