This week was crazy hectic! Because, last week right after I emailed y’all, a big fat tornado touched down in Tupelo, where all 48 missionaries of the Tupelo Stake and President and Sister Hanks were. Y’all it was so scary! We were all in the chapel and we heard wind, that was all we heard, President opened one of the doors and I got a look outside, IT WAS GREEN! I never in my life thought I would see a green sky. That is when I knew it was serious. I was scared. I had never been in a tornado before, or even something that came close! But we were all instructed to take a seat and we decided to all sing hymns, all was well when all of a sudden the power was flicking in and out…then it went black…I was so scared! Sisters were crawling under the pews and Elders were trying to act cool and yelling stupid stuff. And then we decided to continue singing hymns! Y’all it was so powerful, as we sang the spirit in the Chapel was so strong! I felt calmer and I knew everything would be alright. When we finally got the okay that the tornado had passed we slowly opened doors and everything looked fine! Just a few broken branches from trees and leaves everywhere. Ha. It was weird, but I felt good! I had survived my very first tornado!

So we all start going through the church because we weren’t allowed outside yet. But them of course someone opened a door and we were all standing right outside, when President came down the hall yelling at everyone to get back inside because we weren’t quite sure if it was over. So anyways, we all piled back into the church and started playing games in the gym and a group of us decided to play signs! It was fun, and we were all starting to relax when the Zone Leaders called ‘Sister Gomm, Sister Drummond, Sister McDowell, Sister Hazelgren, Elder Hall, Elder Black, Elder Forbush, and Elder Wright’ to see President. I was kinda freaking out because I didn’t know what I did wrong! So we go into the room with President and he tells us that we are the first to leave because all of us were either West of North of where the storms were headed. So we were the first to leave and we were driving the other Sisters so we had to first go out farther then head home!

Y’all, I was NOT excited about that at all. I did not want to leave the stake center full of missionaries. But we made it and let me just say, it was really eerie… But the 4 sisters were the ONLY missionaries out because the Booneville Elders were told to wait a little longer and the other Elders got stuck in traffic. But once we got to New Albany we had to call President and he asked if we would stay the night there at the Sister’s apartment. It was so so much fun haha. We all played Uno multiple times. And the longest game we had going was 45 minutes. It was so long haha.