Earthquake

So while I had the fortunate experience emailing with Hope on Sunday night, and remember she is 15 hours ahead of us right now, so it was about 2:00 p.m. her time, and while we were emailing, she came on with this message for me:
I was just in an earth quake! The whole building was shaking and people were running and getting out of dodge. I am in a place called pure gold and holy crap I have never seen people move so quickly in my entire life holy crap the whole building was shaking! people were running and shouting haha best thing yet! ha my companion was trying to drag me out and I was just standing there enjoying the quake. ha so in the Internet cafe I am in there are about 30 people in here. Well when it started quaking everyone ran away and only the 8 missionaries there were in here stayed ha we are mostly foreigners :) hehe people are slowly making their way back in. WOW! you should hear the commotion that is going on here

So ya, she got to expericene her first earthquake This is what I found on google about it:  A strong earthquake measuring 5.3-magnitude on the Richter scale jolted some parts of Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte Monday afternoon, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.

The tremor, which was registered at around 1:56 p.m., has originated 29 kilometers (km) southwest of Burgos, Ilocos Norte.Intensity 5 was felt in Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte. Phivolcs described an Intensity 5 earthquake as strong and is generally felt by most people indoors and outdoors.Meanwhile, Intensity 4 (moderately strong) was felt in Sarrat,
Laoag City, and Paoay, all in Ilocos Norte, Intensity 3 (weak) in Sinait, Ilocos Sur, and Intensity 2 (slightly felt) in Santa, Ilocos Sur.Phivolcs did not immediately report any loss of lives or damage to property due to the earthquake. However, it warned of possible aftershocks generated by the strong tremor.The earthquake was tectonic in origin meaning the ground shaking was primarily due to the sudden movement in the earth’s plates.Being situated in the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines is vulnerable to earthquakes, averaging 20 weak to strong tremors every day. 

So that was fun: NOT!!! When you are 4000 miles away! When I answered her I said just be careful and remember there should be aftershocks: and she replied with this: NO don't worry. it was great! haha my heart is a little racy but I'm fine :)
When I asked here where she was she replied and said this:2 story building! a huge building called Pure Gold. look it up on Google Maps. and i am on the bottom floor. it's kind of like a mall. maraming tao (many people) it's in the centro of town.

The Pictures that she sent this week are great! So I hope that you enjoy them:

She sent a similar picture last week. 

happy living the chub life :)
(those hare her words)

Her and Sister Rico. This is her Sister from different parents: Sister Rico. and Hope share alot of important dates: They both turned their papers in on the same day, they both received their Mission calls on the same day, and they both had their Mission Farewells on the same day!

Hope and Sister R.

Memories

I was fanning flames for the BBQ at the Gaspars house the other night :) The girl is Diane 

:this is what we do in our spare time :) hehe 

The Apartment

Cleaning Day at the Apartment

This is a float in one of the parades!





I hope that you enjoyed the pictures this week! I thought that they were wonderful, I am so glad that she shares some of her mission with me, and what better way than through a picture.
Hey, If you get a chance to write her a hand written letter, I know that Hope would greatly appreciate it.
her Address is: Sister Marina Hope Kenfield
                          Philippines Laoag Mission
                          Brgy. #50 Buttong, Airport Avenue
                          Junction Tangid Road, Laoag City
                          2900 Ilocos Norte
                          PHILIPPINES

Thank you so much for reading this blog, it really had been a great "Journal" , and I know when Hope gets home off her mission she will love this!