For starters, I cut six inches off my hair last monday. It looks good I think, but then I have always been a really bad judge of these things.
We got to work at a butterfly and hummingbird garden that needed a lot of help after the floods last month. We helped them repair their garden and we met this super smart lady who worked at NASA.
We also met this man who preached to us about the Presidential Elections that are coming up, but we can't watch anything about politics, so we just stood there and smiled at him. It was super funny though.
Then on Wednesday, we met some really weird people and more weird things happened to us, but as this is Conroe, I am not surprised. If anyone would like a detail of what those things are, please just ask us. :)
THEN ON THURSDAY- We had a weekly planning training in Houston and got home at about 3:00. We had a meeting in the church at 4. We were in the meeting when we were interrupted by the sound of heavy rain, so of course we went to investigate. It was probably the worst thunderstorm I have ever seen/been awake and above ground for. We started getting flash flood warnings and then the power went out. The sky went green and we started to get tornado warnings. The thunder sounded like gunshots. It actually did flash flood (including everywhere around the church and we were stranded for hours) and we spent the night pushing cars that had stalled in high water. There were some that were completely buried. We saw a firetruck plowing through high water towing a rescue boat behind them. We found an assisted living home where they were all huddled in the common area with their flashlights and so we sand hymns with them for an hour and the storm went on about us. Once when we were pushing a car backward up a hill there was a huge crash and we looked up to see a huge tree collapse on top of a car. It was really freaky. The highways up here were flooded over and a lot of roads were completely blocked.
Our power was out for three days.
It is also funny because this storm hit Conroe and the Woodlands and Houston didn't get it hardly bad at all. Hermana Wallace and I think that the flash flooding is following us. Ha ha.
So that was my week. No power, and no hot water, wet all the time (as it kept raining) and yet we found so many people to help. I loved singing in the Old Folks home and pushing damaged cars. We are so blessed to have a God who loves us and created this earth for us. I know that no matter how horrible the storms of life that come, as long as we build our lives on Jesus Christ, we will never ever fall. That even in the world we can be strong and immovable in our faith and in our hope of things to come.
I love you all so much, and please pray for those in Conroe who still do not have power. Please let me know if there is anything I can do for any of you. Thank you for all of your prayers. I know that they kept us safe.
Always,
Hermana McCurdy
Training car selfie while waiting for someone to unlock the church
Everyone crazy in the rain.
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