Dear Family and Friends
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How are you doing? I'm here. Last Wednesday was excellent and the Temple Trip was exhilirating. I really enjoyed the experience. We walked through Central Park en route to the Temple and on the way back. President Nelson, afterwards, bought hot dogs for us next to the Temple.
This is an interesting experience: Early in the Morning, at 4:00 am, on Sunday...we all awoke (the four of us in our bunk beds) to a very loud bang/exploding sound. Frightened the heck out of all of us. I peeked carefully out the window to view a burning telephone pole directly outside the apartment near our window. "There's a fire!" I exclaimed. The fire started changing colors, flashing, and growing stronger. Elder Hall called 911 and the FDNY arrived. The Firemen sprayed the electrical fire with water, but to limited effect until finally, the had smothered it. During all of this, we pulled our mattresses into the middle room away from the fire. The power failed and we, eventually went back to sleep. We smelled a lot of smoke....I figured that our smoke-detector alarm would sound...however, it didn't. Firemen started to enter our building and they banged on the door. We grabbed our wallets and shoes and evacuated. We didn't return until 6:30 am! Wow! Eventful, eh? They were particularly worried that the cars parked parallel would endanger the block. Fortunately, everything was returned to normal...even the power after church!
