Sister Alexis Reategui: Miracles Surrounding Typhoon Yolanda

This Week in the Legazpi Philippines Mission

KUMUSTA!!! Yes, I am alive and have survived the typhoon this week. Let me just start by saying a huge thank you for your prayers and your concerns. I have felt of your faith and your comfort!! Not once have I felt unsafe here, which is kind of crazy seeing the crazy things that have happened here. Miracle for sure.

Typhoon Yolanda hit here last Friday. We were on lock down and not allowed to leave our apartment from Thursday night to Saturday morning. It was said to be a signal 4 and a very high tide, so we were advised to move everything in our apartment to the top of the bunk beds just in case the water got really high. We were prepared for the worst, which was a blessing. We prepared our 72 hour kits and had many extra buckets of water. For the next few days we stayed in the sister's apartment above us with all 6 sisters in our area. The members were amazing! Through and after the storm, our members and investigators were calling and texting us to make sure WE were okay. So SELFLESS. The worst we got of the storm was a "brown out" for about 4 days and no water. And I currently have 103 bug bites on my legs and arms from sleeping with the windows open. Haha but, we are definitely counting our blessings AND miracles. Many, many people were affected by this crazy storm so please keep them in your prayers. Some members of our branch have family in other areas of the Philippines and they haven't heard anything from them. Please PLEASE keep them in your prayers.

Despite the craziness of the storm, The Lord blessed us to witness the Nare's Family being baptized this week.  We get to the church, and of course there is no power. No lights or fans or air conditioning. We look in the baptismal font and there was no water of course.  But, somehow in jut less than an hour, we were able to get water into the font. I still don't even know how that happened. THE WORLD IS FULL OF MIRACLES!