(KUTV) An LDS mission president and his wife are among the thousands of people in Houston needing to be rescued as flood waters rise.



President Spencer Hewlett of the Houston East Mission and his wife are seen in a video waiting in over-knee-deep water for a boat.

“They just said a boat is on its way to pick us up,” Hewlett’s wife could be heard saying. “They said don’t go any further because of the current.”

Eventually a boat does come and get them out of the neighborhood. They are images that are not easy for Becky Christensen to see from her home in Riverton, Utah. That’s because her youngest daughter, Sis. Teisha Christensen is serving in the Houston East Mission.

"It tugs at my heart strings wondering if she is going to know what to do,” Becky Christensen said. "But because of our faith, and the reason of why she is there, I know she will be fine."

Right now Teisha Christensen is in lock-down mode with two other missionaries on a second floor of an apartment building. She’s one of nearly 600 missionaries from three Houston missions. According to the LDS church, all missionaries are safe and accounted for, with some relocated to higher ground.

Becky Christensen has not been able to talk to her daughter, but is getting daily updates from a Houston East Mission blog. Teisha Christensen did tell her family in an email she is going to be OK. She told her family:

I hope you’re not freaking out too bad. I am really fine and one of the safest places I can behonestly I know I will be safe.

Her father believes she’s going to be okay.

“She’s a tough girl, and her and I have done a lot together. She doesn’t get rattled to easy,” he said.

