Semana 66 - #TERREMOTOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Earthquake)


So there was an earthquake that happened this last week, it was super fun.
The earthquake happened at 2 am Sunday.  I live on the 4th floor of an apartment made out of bricks. When it happened me and my companion woke up and he told me that we need to leave, so we got up, put cloths on and went to the the other room where 2 other missionaries were.  One of the other missionaries that lives with us is from Arequipa. (in Arequipa there are always earthquakes that are 7.0 or more all the time)  He helped us during the earthquake. When we left our room we went to stand under the door frame until the earth stopped  shaking.  Everything was shaking for like 10-20 seconds. While it was shaking all the windows were rattling and the earth was humming really loud. It was super cool to hear everything rattle. After everything stopped shaking we left the house and when out to the street to meet as a zone and wait an hour to make sure that there weren't any after-aftershocks.  During the whole thing I was super calm and I actually had a lot of fun.

It was great to be in an earthquake when no buildings fell.  Where I was it measure 7.5 on the richter scale.

Really that's the big thing that happened this week.  Me and my companion were talking with lots of people this week but they failed us a lot, but whatever.  All the Lord asks of me is to share the gospel with those who will listen and their job is to learn and act. 

The actions that help us feel closer to God are 
1) read the scriptures
2)pray
3) go to church.

This week I invite all of you to start doing these 3 things so you can enjoy the blessings of God more in your life so you can find lasting happiness.

les amo mucho (I love you much)
una semana más en paraíso, pero esta vez estaba moviendo (one more week in paradise, and this week I am moving)

Elder Porowski

Location: Tarapoto, Peru

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