Well it snowed again today. It didn't snow a lot, but the wind drifts make it look like it did in certain places that's for sure. It hasn't been super cold during the day yet but it's been getting down to about 2 below at night. I did find a blanket that I can use. And we got a space heater and that helps at night a lot too. We are still trying to find more people to teach. We've tracted into some pretty sweet families so I'll keep you updated on them. Sasha has moved her baptismal date to March 10th so that her family can attend. That's 2 days after transfers so i might not be here for that is the only bad thing. But we felt that the 10th is when it was supposed to be so i don't mind. We went over and had a big family dinner with her husband's family that all live in the little town of Blockton. It reminded me of our big family dinners that we would have with extended family and what not. Then we watched the restoration DVD and the spirit was really strong. Videos can really bring the spirit into a room and we use them often when we are teaching people.
We have that same problem with the "traditions of their fathers" especially with the Methodists. Except here in Iowa it's more of a "my parents took me here when I was a kid" and now they don't go at all but they still don't want to change. We've been trying to get our name out into the community lately. We have articles coming out in the Lenox and the Corning Newspaper. They only print one issue a week and ours should either be in the one this week or the one next week. Also for Creston, our biggest city in the area, we have some air time on their radio station that a bunch of people listen to on Thursday so i hope that goes well. We've also had plenty of snow shoveling service opportunities. We also served dinner at a soup kitchen type place and might start getting some volunteer work at a hospital so things are going well.
I've been studying up on Joseph Smith and church history lately. It always amazes me how in the early days of Joseph's life, specifically before he was 14, everything just aligned perfectly. Like how when he got the infection in his leg after typhoid fever that the only doctor in the WORLD that could have saved his leg was right there to perform the surgery. God's work will go forward no matter what. I'm just so happy that I can be a part of it.
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