In the midst of the water

      Yesterday I was planning to have a nice night with pop, movie, popcorn, and electricity.  While we were making popcorn we lost power.  Then our popcorn was burnt and barley anything popped.  We watched Star Trek and  power came on and off like 4 times.  There was lots of rain and thunder and also my parents were gone at a church service. All the animals were scared.  When my mom and dad got back we went back to watch our movie.  I heard my mom yell Logan's name. I ran out and saw water was coming in from the roof and down the stairs that lead to the roof.  Water was everywhere! I started picking up important things on the ground like boxes of bibles.  My brother went to help my dad sweep the water off the roof.  Then after awhile I went up there to help sweep.  Then Oberline walked up and helped me too.  It was pitch dark, the rain was so cold and there was lighting and thunder all around us.  After sweeping and sweeping we took a break on the ledge.  Just as much water as we were sweeping out was just falling again, again, and again.  We took another break and just sat in the water.  It made no difference to our clothes to sit in the water. There was so much water that the wrinkles in the water made me think I was in the ocean.  After an hour of sweeping, the rain was like needles on my back.  During all this in the dark, Oberline and I staring singing and rejoicing.  Then the boys started knocking holes in the ledge of the roof so the water would run off.  Oberline and I grabbed the chairs that were up there and hid ourselves from the rain.  When we were finished, we went down and realized we had cement all over us.  I rinsed off and my mom said that the water was cold but since I was so cold it felt like it was hot.  That was not the kind of Saturday night I was expecting.  It is still raining now at 10:29  the next day here.  Thank Jesus for the rain.  All the farmers will have a good season of crop this year.