There and Back Again: Week 76 TWO TORNADOS

This past week was full of fun and fear.  We helped several new missionary couples move in and took them to eat to get to know them better. We had some great activities. I almost tipped the tractor over...that was truly scary.  

The heavy rains had made the ground very soft and when I did my normal route over this little hill it sunk down just enough on the downhill side of the tractor that the mower deck got jammed below the sidewalk line and I couldn't go forwards or backwards and as I tried to back out or move forward it started to tip sideways.  

Elder Cullen RAN over and was pushing on the top of the cab while we problemsolved.  I put it in 4 wheel drive and with his pushing on the cab we were able to wrench free and be safe again.  Then we had to fill, patch and reseed that bit of lawn...heh heh....At least it was at the Bushnell where the "public" never sees.

Wednesday we had a kit flying activity on the temple hill lawn.  It had been raining all day but stopped an hour before and was warm and WINDY!  No one even had to run to get their kit going. They just tossed them up and they went hundreds of feet into the air....Except for mine.  

I got a unicorn kite from the dollar store and it was a piece of junk!  LOL  I tried, three or four different missionaries tried, I gave up.  15 minutes later Sister P. started shouting my name.  I looked over and My unicorn was flying over the temple. LOL  What is the significance??!!

That night the blustery winds turned into a tornado!  Elder Cullen hunkered in our basement with the missionaries next door.  I went over to the Bushnell because the young sister missionaries were very scared and their basement was LOCKED!  As I headed over to their home the sirens came on...it was quite dramatic.  We kept cheerful as we gathered, told stories, prayed, and they were very very glad I was there to comfort them.

Two days later while we were having our movie night another tornado struck.  We gathered in the basement of the Visitor's Center and sang songs, played games, and talked.  When the sirens stopped we got permission to go ahead and watch the movie.  Then at a climatic part in the movie Thunder and Lightning struck. The whole room shook!  The Wifi was knocked out.  So that was the end of that.  LOL.  I thought it was quite metaphorical that we were focusing on the savior (The Lamb of God) in the middle of a storm.

So today is clear bright and warm. We're cleaning house and packing and grateful. I am reminded of a scripture or twooooo.

2 Nephi 2:11For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.

So we NEED the crazy in our lives in order to be grateful for the good.  The more pain you have the more you appreciate your health, the more sorrow you have the more joy you have when the sorrow is over.  It's just the way. So don't fight it...paddle through it and remember Christ said

Psalm 55:22

Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

Matthew 11:

28 ¶ Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.