Hail, Thunder, wind OH MY

  This week has been crazy! We traveled down to Mildura for a training on friday! We drove 350ks to get there and we drove right through a huge hail storm. The road was flooding and the hail was huge! We had lightning flashing all around us. When we finally got to Mildura, we then went on Trade offs with the Zone leaders! Guess who I went with! Elder Taleo! It was amazing! It felt like I havent seen him in ages! We talked all about the people in Darwin and how much we miss the Farrers! I was all good until a huge black cloud came rolling in. We got caught in a thunder strom with huge gusts of wind! It good so strong that Elder Taleo and I had to stop. We were doing everthing we could not to get blown into the lake. Then out of no where we hear a loud crack and a metal fence got ripped out of the ground and flow over our heads. We then ran to a small bridge and waited out the wind. Five minutes later we made it to a members house to find all of the power in Mildura had been knocked out. We talked about the fire side for this last sunday. After the short talk we left and saw a couple huge trees get blown over. We call the zone and sent them home. We then called my companion Elder Cultura who was with Elder Jordan, They were stuck in the storm and we needed to pick them up. The problem was that Elder Taleo and I were still 6 ks from the flat. We biked as fast as we could through the thunder storm with rain and hail. The only light on the streets were from the flashes of lightning. We got to the flat with a few close calls then we grabbed the car and drove very slowly to the Elders. We couldnt see ten feet in front of us. The windshield wipers couldnt keep up with the rain and we had to make detours because of trees that fell in the road.We find the Elders help them load up their bikes and we went home. We were as wet as could be! We had a great laugh with all the Elders after everyone got home. We ended up with 9 Elders in a two room flat. We had a great week!