He survived his first typhoon

It was a wonderful surprise to wake up this morning and have an email from Alex.  We were even able to email back and forth a few times and it was great.  He also sent pictures.  Yeah.  I told him I would send him a new, much nicer camera if he promised to send pics.  It worked. 

We are so thankful he is safe and doing well.  Our prayers have been answered.  Hopefully we will find out more details of his adventure next week.  Thank you again for all the love and support.

Sept 16, 2014

Hey family I am alive...haha!  It has been crazy past couple of days!  So this past saturday I had my first baptism.  It was one of our investigators, her name was Gloria De Leon.  She is a 69 year old lady and she doesn't understand english or tagalog!  So when I was baptizing her and trying to explain it to her she couldn't understand me!  Also I didn't want to hurt her because she was a fragile old lady...no offense!  Then this past sunday was the crazy day.  So we had a category 3 typhoon go over the mission!  Pretty crazy since I have never been in a hurricane or anything!  So here is what happened...It was obviously very rainy and windy!  So our power went out during the storm, which sucked!  So I went outside with my flashlight and right when I went outside a huge tree fell over right across the street from our apartment!  It fell over down into the middle of the road and it took out a fence and the power lines and then landed right in the middle of the road!!  That picture doesn't do justice.  I took that picture in the morning and it was after a lot of people had already been hacking at it.  The tree made it to our gate in front of our house, all the way across the road!  Then later that night while the storm was still going on we were inspecting our house and a room that we don't use was flooded about 7 inches!  The floor for that room is lower than all of the other floors in the house so it didn't get everywhere!  Then also our bathroom was flooded and it stunk really bad!!  The road was also a river, it was all under water.  Then on monday we were out of power all day until about 8 at night.  It was our p day so it was super hot and boring because we had to stay at our apartment all day!  It has been a crazy couple of days thats for sure!  I hope that everything is going good at home!  I love you all

Love Elder Lott

His apartment

 I am sure he is thrilled to have two fans.  Hopefully his companion has at least one.  Ha ha.  That's the cleanest I have ever seen his room.  I am sure it is because he doesn't have any stuff.  He did say he hadn't made his bed before he took the picture but was planning on doing it.  I am sure he added that just for me.

So apparently he bought a pocket knife.  I am not surprised.  I guess his companion cut his fingers.  Not exactly sure how, but I guess boys will be boys.  He says they have healed fine.

He said his bathroom was full of water and stunk pretty bad after the typhoon .

Elder Lott's first baptism

Aftermath of the typhoon.