Brrrrr!!!!!!

Hey everyone, 

So this week was a cold one! It snowed all night on Monday, so waking up on Tuesday was a great surprise! I was on exchanges that day, so one of my Sister Training Leaders, Sister Wagstaff, and I just walked around all day through the snow. Good thing, since I got a flat tire for the fourth time the night before, even after buying a new tube, and our air pump is broken. So it was okay that we couldn't bike. 

For the first time in my life, I shoveled a driveway. That was some good service for a member. Also for the first time in my life, I pushed a car out of the snow (our car). I've had someone push my car out of the snow and ice in Provo last year, but when Sister King tried to pull a U-ie on a country road and we went into the snow on the side, I got the opportunity to do so (thankfully some hunter guys pulled over in their trucks and helped me push the car, haha). 

Also, one night we went to Jeni's ice cream, since Sister King had never had it before (it's really good ice cream, look it up), and 10 degrees is officially the coldest weather I have ever eaten ice cream in. But then again, ice cream is good all year round, to be honest. 

The work is certainly slow when it's 8 degrees outside (and one day it was one degree!!). People are like, "it's cold, go stay warm!" and they shut the door. One "investigator" told us, "Not now, it's too cold, come back in the summer." What the?!?! If your wife is home, we can teach you inside!

But something else fun about the week is when we went to do service at a member's house and then ended up making bread with her. We were sent home with all this bread dough and a container full of home-ground whole wheat flour (I've missed that!!). We baked one of our loaves the other night, and it turned out to be amazing, I think it's the best whole wheat bread I've ever made! 

We actually taught two lessons this week, which is the news of the transfer as far as our missionary work has been going, haha. We had a good lesson with a recent convert, and we taught the first lesson to a less-active/part member family after they had us over for dinner. That went pretty well.  

Anyways, we give up the car again this week, and we'll see how I survive when temperatures go down again. Today is not bad at all, but overnight we're getting a ton of freezing rain. Should be exciting. And go Buckeyes! The digital billboards around town have been saying thing like, "Go Bucks! Pluck the Ducks!" And in Kroger today, there was a display advertising frozen duck meat, saying, "Roast some duck for the big game!" Haha. 

Love you all!

Sister Petersen

Pictures: 

#1: View outside our apartment/townhome. Our car is the white one on the left. 

#2: Ready to shovel some snow!

#3: The town of Hilliard (and its really cheesy slogan....)