Cops and Outages

So today was an interesting day. I hitched a ride to church with the Wiers and when we came to the roundabout by the texaco each exit in the roundabout was manned by a police officer and blocked off with orange cones. We waited in line for a few minutes and when our turn came the officer began to explain they were doing a disaster drill. Why they decided to shut down the main road into town for miles and miles I will never know. It brings me great comfort to know that in the event of a disaster they will know how to shut down a road though. We busted through a "do not enter" sign to get to church as well. Now that is devotion! Once we got to church though we discovered that the electricity was out. The weather in Grenada is relentlessly humid and usually quite hot as well. Our little church does not have any air conditioning so the only relief from the heat is any breeze through the window or from the ceiling fans from above. For some reason neither do the job. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be until we got to priesthood lessons. The room we meet in is in the back corner away from the breeze. The air was very stagnant. It is times like these that you appreciate small things like having working roads, and a car for that matter. Electricity has also revolutionized our way of life. I am grateful to have these things and grateful that I was able to come home to a place that did have electricity so I could cool off a bit! I am moving to Antarctica.