This week was the weirdest weather I've ever seen in my life. In the beginning of the week it just snowed/rained ice/sleet until we had like 6 inches of just straight ice over everything. Like it dented our cars hood & cars were sliding everywhere like the whole state was in "lockdown" or encouraged to stay home for 3 days. Unfortunately we had no grocerys because we were planning on buying some monday lol... but walmart was closed monday. So that sucked.
So ima play out what happened:
Sunday & Monday & Tuesday night: Straight ice layer laid down everywhere. Cars were sliding off roads sideways and just nobody could go anywhere. (See pic 2) Got down to like 10° and with the humidity like I've never felt colder in my life. It froze our pipes so we had no water for 2 days.
Wednesday morning: it rained like crazy. Just dumped water. Our power kept going out. And because the ground was frozen the water wouldn't go anywhere so it flooded our whole city pretty bad. (See pic 4 for reference) ice was just in the water and the car in that picture got stuck in the water & ice and then the other 2 guys were shoveling them out.
Thursday, Friday, & Saturday: ice was still on the road and people's pipes were still frozen. Our pipes weren't though so we got our water back.
Sunday: the weather was high 60° so everything melted and it felt like Utah's summer not going to lie. It was so warm.
Everything was closed all week except for "essential shopping" at walmart. It was the worst.
Anyways here are some pictures of what we did!
Pic 1: My companion and I put up an ad on facebook and we painted custom book of mormons & bibles. So people would just request what they wanted on them and we would paint it! We found quite a few people. One lady, Olivia, asked for superman on her bible, and my comp painted a really sick picture of superman on it. She loved it so much and we got to talking and we are like best friends now and she wants us to go to church with her and her boyfriend next sunday so we are going to go to our church then their church afterwards! And it's her boyfriend's birthday and they want to us to come for dinner with them which will be so sick!
Pic 2: I have the funniest video of those guys in that green truck trying to get unstuck. We tried to help, but they were too ignorant and also would not listen to us Utah boys who know how to drive in the snow. So their truck is probably still there.
Pic 3: Since my mission presidents wife is literally a rocket scientist and worked on the Mars rover that landed this week, they let us Zoom into the landing of the rover and it was so cool lol.
Pic 4: Ice flood. It doesn't look that bad in this pic. But I was genuinely terrified.
Pic 5: comp wanted a pic with our firehouse sub sandwich we had been wanting all week, but didnt get until saturday when it was finally open!
Anyways that was my week! I love Louisiana this place is just insane and the people are 3x more insane. This place is home for sure. This whole storm situation had me realize how we are so not in control of ANYTHING. And in an instant life can be flipped upside down, that's why you just have to put your trust in God and his plan. Because we can only do so much. He is in control. When you're having a tuff time, u just need to have some faith that things will only go uphill from there. Because then you enjoy those tuff times a little more because you know it ain't gonna last. So take it all in. And serve those around you. Because you'll come out on the other side;)
Love yall, Love Elder Wilson
