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letter from Elder Hanes- TORNADO

Well this past week was crazy! Friday is when the excitement started. Friday morning we went out to the car and someone had broken into our car. They stole my comps cds and a role of quarters that I got for my laundry. Then we went to district meeting and when we left the weather was getting a little nasty. So we went tracting and as we were tracting we parked the car and walked down a few streets. Well around 3 it started to rain a little. Not too much. Then it started getting black. Then it happened, the tornado alarm started going off, we looked at each other and were like NO... so we ran to the car. When we got to the car it had started raining really hard so we started heading to the nearest shelter, it was the high school. As we were driving, we were like man I hope this thing is not close... Well that’s when we started seeing trees fall down in the road in front of us.. We freaked out and so we turned and finally got to the high school. When we got to the school and ran into the building we were getting hit by hail (it was not soft...) lol But it calmed down and we went back to our apartment and changed and went back to help people. Well, it turns out that when we got in our car and were driving, we were right behind the tornado, it crossed Flood RD. and we drove on Flood right behind the tornado. The Tornado started at the intersection W 24 and Lindsey, it was about 2 blocks down from my apartment. It went North East, jumped a little bit after it touched down it jumped and came back down right next to the high school and went through the roads we were tracting... It was intense.

I have a really cool story. I had an angel help me. We were going around and helping people. I saw an older man on his roof cutting a tree off. I don’t even ask to help I just got up there and started helping him. Well it was raining again and the roof started getting slippery. Well he started cutting this one branch and it fell and he dropped the chain saw, and started falling back. I caught him with one arm and caught the chainsaw right before it landed on his leg... For one thing I don’t know how I was able to keep him from falling with one arm (he was not a small guy) and I don’t know how I caught the chain saw and grabbed it just right. It was awesome. Then afterwards, he tried giving me money; he put it in my hand and it was a hundred dollar bill. I was like NNNOOOO way. I gave it back to him and he started crying. He was 80 years old. His name is James S. He is way cool.

But yea that is my weekend. I will upload pics.

Love you, miss you,

Elder Hanes