Here's Jordan's latest update, FINALLY!!!

Hey!‏
From: Jordan Steinagel (gospelbomb921@myldsmail.net)
Sent: Mon 3/08/10 10:19 AM

Hey family! Aw man, I´m gonna have to apologize to everybody because you guys never got an email last week. Graugh, that makes me so mad. I wrote you guys this way long email telling about how the earthquake went and how everything has been going and stuff, and then sent it and it said that it was sent, but apparently you guys never got it. I am officially unpleased with myldsmail.net because there are so many problems that it has. Oh well, I´ll just tell you guys what happened again because I love you that much .
Ok, so the night was just like any other night. We planned, got something to eat, and then went to sleep. I was just dreaming along and suddenly I hear Elder Zmoos yelling my name, so I wake up. I looked at him and he´s standing there between the door and yelling “Elder Steinagel get out of bed! There´s an earthquake!” apparently I slept through the beginning of the earthquake because when I woke up it was already going. So I hopped down and the whole house was just shaking. It kept getting stronger and stronger until it felt like a giant man had picked up our house like a piggy bank and started shaking it to see if there was money inside or something like that. Then I looked outside and the whole sky was being lit up by flashes of blue, green, red, and yellow light. Those were coming from all the explosions of transformers of power for the city. It was crazy! I felt like it was the end of the world and started praying. I don´t even remember what I prayed for, but all I know is that it was crazy and eventually the pounding and shaking died down, but that wasn´t the end. Once the shaking ended, we could still feel the house moving and it felt like we were sailing on a boat or something. It was like the earth was adjusting itself after letting out a giant belch. We also looked outside and could see all the 20 story buildings rocking back and forth, but luckily none of them ended up falling. When everything finally mellowed out, it was funny because all of us were going crazy! We were all full of adrenaline and yelling “Terremoto Terremoto!” It was kinda funny, but then we settled down, had a group prayer, and went back to bed. I wasn´t able to sleep that well afterward though because aftershocks kept coming. It was a cool experience.
When we woke up, our district leader called us and told us to just go out in pday cloths and offer service to everyone. That´s what we did, but there really wasn´t that much damage in our sector. There was only one house that completely fell and there was nobody living in it because it was really old, so no one got hurt. We kind of just walked around all day searching for people that needed help and visiting members to see if they were ok and it turned out that they all were. Then at 6:00 our district leader called us and told us that we needed to return back to the pension for the rest of the night, according to orders from Pres. Jones. So we went back for the rest of the night.
The next day, we were supposed to get a call for changes, but our district leader called us and told us that we would be staying with our companions again for another week because there was a big epidemic of missionaries from the south coming into our mission. Changes would have just made everything a little more complicated, so President just decided to postpone it for a week.
A week passed and last night we got the big call, but it turns out that I´m gonna be staying in this sector with elder Zmoos for one more change. It´s crazy because I´m going to end up having 6 months in my first sector by the time I finish this change. I´m cool with it though because this last week went really well and we were really guided by the spirit. We found this young guy named Antonio who has 23 years and 3 kids already. He´s pretty faithful and he was interested in what he have got to say. So we set up another appointment with him and we´re excited to teach him. We also found another person named Blanca and she was really receptive to us. It was cool because Elder Z. and I were just walking to an appointment we had and suddenly Elder Z. just walked up to this one door and said we need to knock it. So we did and that´s where we found Blanca. We also found this other lady named Patricia who just left the catholic church because a family member of hers just died recently and the catholic church did nothing to help her out. So now she´s looking for some comfort in life and we´re here for exactly that. Then we got an investigator who has a baptismal date for the 20th and we are way stoked about him. His name is Marcelo and he´s got a strong testimony already. Also I´m gonna be here for his baptism, so it is gonna be awesome! Woo hoo! Life is good.
I think that´s all that´s been going on so far. All I can say is the church is true and I´m glad to have you guys as my family. I´m very glad for the blessing of the priesthood and this church, the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which is the only true church there is. Sometimes it´s just so obvious of how false other churches are, but that´s why we´re here so that others can know the truth.
Well, I need to go, but I miss you guys and the church is true.

Elder Steinagel