Well so this is the first time I have written since the Typhoon Maysak hit Chuuk! All I have been doing since then is cutting trees in half and carrying bags of rice! I'm gonna get jacked!!
But yeah so March 29th we had a typhoon hit, me and my comp drove over
to the church in the morning (it looked gloomy) and only 4 people showed up to church. Pako was one of them who is recently reactivated ha he is the man. But it was getting super windy and the power got knocked out so we did sacrament then just went in the house cuz we were on "lockdown". no one really knew how big the typhoon would be since there hasn't been a real typhoon in chuuk since 1990. But anyways for a couple hours we sat in the house and it didn't seem too bad, some tin roofs were getting pulled off and a couple tall trees fell but not too bad. The senior couple went up to Wichap for church and a tree blocked the road so they asked us to come get them. So it
cleared up and we drove up there (had to cut a couple trees up) and we got them. We passed the district President on the way down and he told us to hurry...that we were only in the eye of the storm!!
So yeah we rushed back and he was right. It came with full force and water was coming from under the door and trees were falling and the winds just got stronger and stronger. We had to go open the church for some members who wanted to wait it out in the church, scared their homes would be destroyed so that was crazy in itself having to run across the basketball court with rain and stuff all around us. The waves got super big and high too, they pushed boats on to land and broke a lot of them. Our house didn't take damage, except a little
leaking in one corner and a door broke in and got water and dirt all over. The udot house got destroyed:( the missionaries had to wait it out in the members house and a lot of their stuff got ruined cuz they ditched in the house. All of the houses/churches that were made by the church were practically undamaged. The typhoon stopped for the most part around 2 or 3. Monday morning we went around to members houses to check on them, some of them were just destroyed. Mama Merty, whose house is this tiny wood and tin house right next to the ocean didn't get damaged at all!! She is old and has a hard time walking and is just so strong in the church so obviously her faith protected her
house!
So yeah every day until today we have been clearing roads and helping
members build houses and carrying shipments of rice and ramen and tools into the church and distributing them to the branches. Lots of work. I am super sore haha. It has been really fun. What is cool about it all is that no one is really distraught, even though everyone's gardens are destroyed and that's a lot of what people eat from, everyone is just thankful no one was hurt or killed in the event and everyone is really turning to God during this all. It's so cool.
Well, that was about it for the past couple weeks. I did get the box you sent Mom! Thank you ha we were actually running low on food so thank you. I love you all!
Elder Schroath
These pictures were taken by one of the senior couple missionaries, The Martins.
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