Sat 30 Aug 2008
It’s a good thing prayers don’t cost anything because it feels like they are needed everywhere right now.
This week I wrote a letter to my good friends Phil and Lil Anderson who are serving in the Louisiana Baton Rouge Mission. They’re currently in the New Orleans area.
I let them know I was praying for them especially hard as I watch the path of Gustav. I just got an e-mail and learned they have now been evacuated, but they are worried for the people they’ve had to leave behind. There are so many who have no transportation and nowhere to go:
We are praying for their escape. They were trying to re-build this broken city.”
Pray for all of the people in the path of this storm. Pray for them to have faith, hope, courage, and the strength to protect each other. And the same for you. I suppose there is always a storm of some kind or other in our lives every day.”
August 30th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
And pray for people to have good sense to get out of town when they’re told they should. It breaks my heart that people won’t listen to warnings like that.
But then again, I don’t have my year’s supply completed, either…
August 30th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Good point about the food storage. Ouch.
We ought to be primed and ready to pray for other folks now that we’ve gotten so well warmed up on our friends recently. I hope so anyway. That is to say, I hope I am.
I have been thinking how much more dread people around N.O. must be feeling about now. A terrible deja vu.
August 30th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
I am so sad for the people of Louisiana! They were just starting to make progress! We will continue to pray!
August 30th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Pray is something I can do.
August 30th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
It sounds like NO is being much, much smarter about food, water, evacuation, etc. this time. It’s sad they had to be so thoroughly educated last time…
Hoping the best for your friends and all the residents there.
August 30th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
We drove through New Orleans in June, and it was absolutely heartbreaking. The devastation was still so apparent–almost three years after. As we drove, I felt the Holy Ghost whispering to me “Heavenly Father loves these people so much.”
I can’t imagine the courage it takes to return and rebuild, and then leave again.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Ugh. Big tugs on the heart.