Ultima Semana in CCM

Hola Todo,

  Well this week has been nuts, from trying to get all of our travel plans aligned, to getting packed, to having people in our district kinda lose it, to having an earthquake. But through it all the Lord has been with me and the comforter as well. Let me start with the blessings I've seen that come from being a servant of the Lord. One was protection from the earthquake that according to Maestros y Maestras was a 7.2 magnitude and killed over 250 people. It all started when we were in the Joseph Smith building getting our departure orientation. We were watching a short video when all of a sudden the earthquake alarms went off. At first I thought it was a drill but no more than 2 seconds after that the ground began to go wild. We were able to make it out of the building and into the earthquake circles (see the picture with the big green circle). We turned around to look at the building and all the glass on the front of the building was just shaking like crazy, the cars were moving back and forth, and I thought the building was gonna come down.

  After about 30 seconds, which according to one of the presidency members here is a pretty long earthquake, the ground stop doing the wave. My first thought was someone has to be injured because everything from all the shelves were falling off. Well later we learned that not a single missionary was injured (kinda like the 2000 stripling warriors). What a miracle I know that the Lord was protecting us and watching over us.  About a day after the earthquake we received information from our teachers that the earthquake was a 7.2 and that the epicenter was about 100 miles away. Our teacher who lives right next to the Airport about 10-20 miles away showed us a picture of one of the roads. One half of the road was about 3 feet higher than the other half. So the fact that we didn't have any buildings fall was a miracle and better yet no one was injured or killed. The most amazing thing about this earthquake though was that we had a practice drill no more than 2 hours before a real earthquake.

   It doesn't stop there, during the 15th of September (Mexican Independence day) we were told to stay inside at all times unless it was necessary to go outside. Well, me and my compenero did just that, and the next day we walked out of our dormitory and right there on the front steps was a bullet. Now Mexican Independence is a lot different than our independence because not only do they shoot off fireworks but they shoot guns into the air as well. So had we gone out of our dormitory it could have very well been possible that one of us or another missionary could have been shot.

  Well almost out of time but let me bear testimony to you that I know that this gospel is true. If it wasn't I wouldn't be out here where I am right now. I know that we are conduits for the spirit and that we don't teach people the Holy Ghost does. I wish you all the best and hope you are all doing well.

Con Amor

Elder Gibbons