The floods

Saturday morning we had a Stake Primary activity. We met at our chapel at 8 and then were carpooling to another chapel where the activity would be. All 12 of us piled into one van and made our way over. It had been raining all night and was still raining but it didn't seem too different from other heavy rains we have had here. After taking us the church Nate went to get breakfast and was going to come to the chapel when he was finished. He was never able to make it back to the chapel because the rain got harder and the streets started to flood. We continued with the activity all indoors but when it was over we couldn't leave. They put on a movie and the kids (there had to be 100 of them there) ran wild in the cultural hall. Nate was able to make his way to a mall just down the street from the chapel and was stuck there for hours trying to figure out how to get to us. Eventually he went and saw a movie because it was clear none of us was going anywhere. For hours we watched the rain. When it would slow down some people would say, "If it stays like this for another 30 minutes we can leave", only to have it get heavier again. After 8 hours we were finally able to leave. This time we piled 19 people into the little van and headed back to the church where Nate was meeting me. It was dark by that time so it was hard to see the damage but at one point we went over a bridge where the water was right under it. I looked over a small village where the water level was to the middle of the house.

We were very fortunate and just had a little bit of water on our floors. I guess this is one time living on the 4th floor pays off. If only we could remember to close our windows when it is raining and we leave the house!

To top off my lovely day a 10 year old boy in our ward came up to me and asked if I was pregnant. When I said no he said I was a little bit chubs and needed to go to the gym. I would have been offended except I told Nate the exact same thing last week. It still isn't fun hearing it from someone else!