Volume 4 Issue 2 – “Hail Storm!”
Last monday we awoke to the fresh morning air of the storm that had passed. Our neighborhood was filled with morning fog, something that doesn’t happen all too often.
After a quick inspection of our Speed the Light Truck for hail damage and finding none I hurried the kids off to school and returned home to start the day. Sometime in the afternoon I went on a walk to go pay some of our bills. I was shocked when I discovered the car park directly in front of our house had hail dings all over the roof and hood. I thought it was rather ironic that when I first heard the hail my instinct was to move the truck out to the street curb because there are large trees with many branches and leaves that I thought would protect the vehicle. Realizing that all the curbside spaces were taken I had no choice but to leave the truck in the driveway, a spot with absolutely no covering at all.
Again, I thought it was ironic that the one car in front of our house was damaged. However, as I walked down the street to pay the bills I began to realize that almost all the cars on our street were damaged, something was going on here.
Throughout the week Michelle and I have not stopped commenting on all the vehicles we’ve seen with major hail damage. At one stop light a truck just like ours pulled up next to us with 4 large cracks in the windshield and dings all over the body. It was like God was holding up a mirror of what could have been. I can’t express the emotions of grace that we’ve felt…over something as simple as hail damage!
We had heard from many people this week that Martinez was hit really hard. Family Christian Center is one of the churches we’re working with and is located in Martinez. As we drove to church yesterday we were shocked as we passed pile after pile of broken roof tiles carried out to the curb for trash pickup. We knew there had been a lot of damage but nothing had prepared us for the feelings we felt when seeing all the piles of roof tiles and damaged cars. Michelle even said, “it looks like some of the places we did relief work after the earthquakes in El Salvador”.
We praise God that we were spared from hail damage as we are once again reminded of the many incredible ways the Lord watches over us and protects us as we strive to live out our calling here in Argentina.
Your Missionaries,
The Wellborns
Jonathan, Michelle, Alexis & Isabella
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