The rains came down and the floods came up

This is Sister Ali Johanson, reporting from the confines of her

apartment in Orangeburg where she has been stuck for the past 3.5

days. (Except if this email gets sent it means I've discovered wifi

which is not available in my apartment. So if you get this it means

I've survived the floods) Because of the hurricane all the

missionaries in SC have been on lockdown since Friday night. Luckily

we have the other sister missionaries that live in the same apartment

complex so we have had some social interaction over the weekend. We

hear more everyday of people's houses and missionaries apartments

being flooded. We got to go to a members house for conference on

Saturday but then Sunday the city asked nobody to be on the roads so

our bishop asked us not to ask any of the members to come get us...so

we missed conference on Sunday so that was sad. Good thing for

technology. But we're not sure if anyone is actually alive

anymore...it might just be us 4 left. Just kidding...sorry that was a

cruel joke.

We've made about a million cookies and other things, but we can't wash

our dishes because our water is contaminated. So everything is chaos

here, in a really non chaotic way. We don't feel like anything is going

on cuz we look outside and we only have a few deep puddles surrounding

our apartment. But everybody we call talks about how bad things are.

So really we are just extremely blessed. Our ZL's apartment got flooded

16 inches of water and they lost a lot of their stuff, like their

journals and one elder lost his guitar. We feel a little gypped cuz we

don't get to see any of the exciting stuff but really we are just

super duper blessed. Except we're going insane! Is there still a world

out there? Am I still a missionary?

Hello! This is Sister Johanson a day later. No arks had to be built

and we've made it onto the streets today so I think we're ok. So yes,

it's been quite an uneventful eventful past few days. You can look to

the news for more details, I'm tired of typing about it. Plus my time

is up. But it's been confirmed, I am still a missionary. I checked

this morning. So that's pretty cool, lots of roads are washed out and

homes have been flooded so that's sad. Oh also transfers were last

week. What? Guess you're not gonna hear about that today. I actually

did missionary work last week, and it was super spiritual and my

testimony grew and people were converted and hearts were touched.

Things will be back to normal next week. 

Love ya!

Sister Johanson jr

Really lame hootenannys