Monday, August 4, 2015

Great morning!  I woke up about 4:00 to lights flashing through my eyelids.  I opened my eyes and tried to focus, then realized that a lightning storm was almost upon us; no thunder just lightning.  It was amazing to watch.  It was so intense that I checked my phone's weather app to see what we might be in for.  A large dark green and yellow cell was moving directly east, toward the little green dot that represents where we were located.  We were on the south end of it and that happened to be where the storm was most intense. The purple spot was moving right toward us and was just about on us.

I got up to open the curtains so I could watch it as it came through and then lay back down.  Within 10 minutes the wind kicked up, rain was pouring down, sleet was pounding, and thunder was rolling.  Awesome!

By 6:00 it was all over and the sky was clear as the sun rose.  No real evidence that a storm had past except for a few tree limbs, which were broken off by the high winds, lying on the ground.  About this time also I receive a text from Kent Jex telling me that his grandson Courtland Cook is in basic training at the Annapolis Naval Academy and would be finishing up next week before starting classes at the academy.  He also said that Kelly would be coming out to see him.  About 9:00 I called Elder and Sister MacCabe, who are the military relations couple for the Mission, to see if they had been in contact with Courtland.  They have been in contact with him, see him every Sunday, and spoke very highly of him.  He said that Courtland is a real asset and a strong leader.

District Training today down in Glen Burnie.  These training meetings are great and Elder Burrup is a very good district leader.

We stopped by to visit some families this afternoon and out of the five places we went, three of them were home.  Sister Smith told us she was hoping to go to the temple soon and wanted to take the temple preparation classes.  Her daughter is 12 so we told her about the young women's activity tomorrow evening and suggested that she call Sister Guenther and tell her that she wanted to participate.  She said that she would.