Day 174 CEBU!!

First off, I am now in CEBU with President Schmutz! My P-day is now on Wednesdays because i have a temple in my mission (which I've already been to TWICE)!!! 15 of us Tacloban missionaries flew into the gorgeous and HUGE city of Cebu Sunday morning. I think three more are coming later. :) I slept 13 hours straight that first night. At first I was just going to take a nap at 5pm so i didn't change clothes, but i was sooooo tired that i slept straight through the night! I already love it here in Cebu. It's really different from Tacloban, but I think i will get used to it soon. Cebu is just enormous compared to Tacloban. There are three zones off-island on Negros, bordering Bacolod mission. I've been assigned to Car-Car with Sister Zamora, who I'll meet tomorrow. I'll be senior companion, even though I don't know the area or the language, so it'll be an adventure. :)

Since being in Cebu, I've ran into so many people from Leyte! One man was returning to Carigara (my first area) to look for his family. We were able to help him out and tell him where to look and told him to look for the church. At the Cebu temple patron housing, i've seen members from the wards i've been serving in! And I saw Sister Hernandez, the branch missionary who was with Sister Guy during the typhoon! So now all ten of us sisters from the roof are out of Tacloban and safe. I've been running into a lot of relief groups heading to Tacloban, which is comforting to know that supplies and help is continually on the way. Please keep my members and investigators in your prayers!

I read the article by Deseret News, haha. They made it seem pretty dramatic and some things are exaggerated, which is to be expected from a news story.

After the waters had receded a bit, Pres Andaya came with the AP's to find us.
This is outside my apartment on the right.

We later went back to see what could be recovered. This is inside my apartment.
You can see the water level on the wall behind me.

My apartment

This is a link to someone's blog that explains some more of the typhoon and how the geographic regions are set up: http://www.michaeldsellers.com/blog/2013/11/13/our-hometown-of-lawaan-eastern-samar-where-exactly-is-it/