California Burning

This particular fire is about 1/2 mile away from my sisters house!!!!!

It has been so crazy knowing that these fires are within a couple hundred yards from my sisters house. She was ordered to evacuate a couple of days ago, but stayed to make sure there house did not burn down. She said that there have been families in her ward that literally were fighting off the fires on their property for hours. She also said that there are many members in her stake where their neighbors homes were burned, but theirs were spared. Yesterday my sister took her kids to my parents house, which is not in the danger zone, because the smoke has become so bad. My grandma also left her home because the smoke has been so bad. Seeing all of this happen 2 weeks after the controversial election over Prop. 8, I really don't think is a coincidence. The fact that many of the church members homes were spared just shows me that the righteous will be spared. It scares me that all of this chaos is going on where I grew up and that my family is right in the middle of it, having to endure all the persecution and the aftermath of this election, plus these fires. Last week, no on Prop. 8 activists called my dads practice and told him that they were boycotting his practiced because he helped with the yes on Prop. 8 campaign. I really don't think that it will effect his practice, but it is still very unsettling and disheartening knowing that people would stoop to that level and threaten his livelihood. I commend all the church members in California for sacrificing so much of their time and money towards prop 8. I know that if the church was not involved that it would not have passed. I will be praying for my family and all the other families in Southern California right now. It will end soon!