Hey everyone!

 This weeks been pretty crazy, and we were able to see at least triple as many people as we saw last week.  On Tuesday we had a super crazy wind storm that started at about 8 or 9 at night and went all night long. They clocked some of the wind gusts at more than 130 miles an hour, it was pretty crazy. We had about 10  big cottonwood trees in our backyard fall down! From those 10 that fell, 2 fell on our house, 1 smashed the chicken coop(the chickens were fine though) in the back yard and the rest just fell all over the place and ripped up the ground with it. It was pretty crazy, almost everyone in chugiak had at least 1 tree in their yard get blown over and alot of trees fell on powerlines. Everyones power went out at least over night, ours was out until friday morning, and at church I heard that some people in anchorage are still out of power. So basically all day Wednesday we were going around and seeing if anyone in the ward needed help cleaning up trees or debris. When you drive down the streets here in chugiak a good majority of the trees are leaning one way or fallen and on one road within one block we counted  more than 50 trees that fell over. Its nuts, and we heard that theres supposed to be another wind storm just like it this week (: Alaskas crazy!

  This week we saw alot of less active members in the ward, and met some for the first time. But we did see brother Hansens wife again and read 1 Nephi 14 and 15. She seems to be really enjoying it too, even though chapter 14s kinda scary to read with non members because it talks about the great and abominable church haha. But brother Hansens awesome and makes it not so scary by asking things like "so which church is the great and abominable church?" and it helps alot because it gives both him and us the chance to help her understand those sketchy topics and not turn her off to the Book of Mormon or our church. So that was good, shes doing awesome, hopefully soon she'll change her mind and be interested in taking the lessons instead of just reading the Book of Mormon with us. So that visit was good, and they ordered pizza before we got there so we had pizza after we read those two chapters (:.

  We also saw a former investigator who every time we knock on his door he tells us hes really interested but is  super busy at the time. His name is Bill, hes super awesome and super interested. When we got there his wife went upstairs right away so she could watch some political thing on tv, and we had a super good discussion. we were planning on talking about the restoration or something but we ended up answering questions of his and talking about the Book of Mormon and getting to know him. Its weird and backwards, he told us that its easier to read the Old Testament than it is to read the Book of Mormon for him. Were thinking its probably just because of his familiarity with the bible because he grew up going to catholic schools and everything. And he wanted to learn how to become more tolerant with people and so we spent a while talking about that haha. But hes awesome, and hes interested and wants us to come back and learn more.

  Then we weren't able to meet with Sierra, Austin or Terry this week, boo. Sierra still hasn't been able to talk with her dad. Austins parents along with his work and school are keeping him super busy and hasn't been able to find time. And Terry was pretty busy and wasn't able to meet with us. Hopefully this week we'll be able to meet with them though.

  It sounds like you guys had a good week back home, and thanks for sending that stuff.  Hopefully this weeks just as good for you guys as last week was! Love you guys!

 Love Elder Roney