This morning we were going to go start our laundry, but it snowed about a foot in the last 24 hours. And we live on the main street of Smiths Falls. Which the road is small and has no shoulder so when it is plowed it just gets plowed onto our driveway. So we had this massive speed bump at the end of the driveway. I had started to shovel the bump but Elder Shepherd thought we could make it over so I got in the car. Well long story short we got stuck. And there wasn't anything we could do. Thankfully our wonderful landlord came to the rescue with his snowblower. He snow blowed most of the bump away while I shoveled the wheels out. We were able to get the car out thanks to Bob's heroics.
Anyways. This week went by really fast and it was all over the place. We didn't do much Tuesday or Wednesday because we had Zone conference in Oshawa which is about a 3 and a 1/2 hour drive. It was a really good meeting but it just took a really long time getting there. Getting down there took us almost six hours, we got stuck behind plows for a long time and then we got stuck in this mass group of about 200-300 semi trucks. They were all moving really slow. Oh and and on top of it all it was snowing really hard and then it started to sleet, then it started freezing raining, then it started to dump regular rain. It was probably the weirdest drive I have ever seen. Pretty much everything that could have happened, happened.
There was a less active family whose house had burned down. They weren't home so everyone was okay and there insurance covered everything but it was still pretty hard for them. We went over the other day and helped them pack all their wood into a trailer. It was pretty long but they had some friends over that helped. All 8 people helped fill a 20 foot long covered trailer full of wood. It was super heavy, then they got it stuck in the snow. They had to strap two trucks together so they could get it unstuck. It was quite the eventful day.
One more quick story. We were sitting in church. And about ten minutes left a lady walked in. She isn't a member, and no one really knows who she is but she is interested in getting to know about our church. It was a super cool miracle. Some good things have been happening in this area and it is really exciting.
Thought for the week. We were reading the Book of Mormon together Friday night and we read about how Nephi and his family knew about Jeremiah and other Prophets in their time. We didn't really realize that all of these things were going on at the same time. It was really cool to put that together, and how both the Bible and the Book of Mormon support each other.
Love youuuu allll
Elder Talbot
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| Elders Talbot, Shepherd, Woolstenhulme and Sayers |
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| That is a huge pile of snow! |
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