The Hermana Brown Driving in the Snow Academy

HELLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOO out there!!!!!!!

Well another week is already gone! and january is basically over. cant cant cant believe it. we are already halfway through this transfer.

Time is an unfair thing ive realized.
oh well. part of life. right?
Weve seen some pretty cool things happen this week. 

Actually a not so cool thing that happened this week first. It snowed. Again. 2wice this week. bleh. I hate hate hate hate snow. The goodnews is that this year I have Hermana Brown who lived in Utah, and she knows how to drive in the snow! so I dont have to start saying the Lords prayer everytime I get in the car this year. just kidding -but it was snowing so bad on Friday that ok this is what happened.......ready?

So Friday we had an appt at 3:30, one at 4:00, one at 5, one at 6 and then one at 7:30. good day right? yes. until it started snowing. So we left for our 3:30 at 2:30 so we could make it without any problems. usually it only takes about 20 minutes to get to them if that--depending on traffic. wellllllllll traffic is soooo bad and the snow is just coming down that it was 4:00 and we hadn't even made it half way there. the snow kept freezing on our windshield wipers and that was so bad that the driver side wiper actually broke. so we had to call and cancel those 2 appts and then the 5oclock called and cancelled on us due to the amount of snow. and so then we pulled into the nearest parking lot -Target. due to the fact that Hermana Brown can't see while she is driving....called the car guy and he told us we needed to go to jiffy lube and buy our windshield wipers there. Jiffy lube was 3.7 miles away from where we were....So on we went to make it to jiffy lube before it closed. thinking it would only take us about 10-15 minutes to get there....wrong. to drive 3.7 miles it took 45 minutes! finally make it there and we had to cancel our 6 o clock cause there was no way we would make it back in time. one of those appts was supposed to be our dinner appt so we were starving! thank goodness to our delight I realized how much God really does love us, because across the street from the jiffy lube was a restaurant. and you know what one?!! CARRABAS! so we pull into the very empty but open Carrabas and oh man. it was delish. soooo yummy :) and I thought of my mom and dad going there for their Friday night date :) so thanks for that! but then we did end up making it for our 7:30.

and that lesson was awesome!

It was with Irma and Monico. and we taught the 10 commandments and the Sabbath day. and Irma is still trying super hard to get her Sundays off and she is even at the point of thinking of finding a new job. so we are hoping and praying :)

 After that Hermana Brown decided to become the teacher while I became the student as we boogied it over to the church parking lot--I mean The Hermana Brown Driving in the Snow Academy. and I learned how to drive in the snow. wooooopie. hopefully I won't have to do it now :) cause its scarrrry.

On Saturday we had this super cool miracle happen. All of our appts cancelled. and I was seriously at a complete loss of what to do. I was praying and praying and praying to receive revelation or on where we needed to go and I was coming up blank. And then I thought- well maybe we need to ask someone else for inspiration. So we called up the Bishop and his wife answered. She asked us if we had eaten yet. told her no. she invited us to come over. so we did. we went over and had a good little discussion with bishop and his wife about the work and all the miracles we've seen and stuff and then we asked them if they knew of anyone that could use a visit from the missionaries :) less actives, part members. friends, whoever. Bishop sits and thinks about it for a bit and then he says--"well there are my neighbors over here! they were actually being taught by the missionaries like a year ago. Maybe their hearts will be open to it now". So we leave their home with a kneeling prayer where bishop pleads for us to be able to find those families ready for the gospel and that this family we are about to see will let us in and want to hear more. So we go over there and sure enough--they let us in. Family of 5 all over the age of 20. and we had an awesome discussion/lesson about church and who and what we do as missionaries. and they invited us over this Friday. so we shall see!

Yeppers, so we are ready for more miracles to happen this week! :) expect them and they happen! :) :)

hope you all have a great week! and if you find yourself with nothing to do--write me a letter!! I would love one! :p

Love you all so much!

paz y amor,
Hermana Maughan