"I find it really funny to me that you guys are a lot colder than me. So many of you told me just how cold it was there and while it has been cold here... I feel like winter is colder there and with more snow. Granted the snow has stayed and has piled up a lot. It's the worst when people don't shovel their walks and so there is knee-deep snow that we have to walk through to get to the door (and mother... skip on to the next section) with just normal church shoes. ha It's all good though.
"So something really cool that we found out this week - the river freezes here and there are people who take it upon themselves to build a golf course out on the ice. Ha so we are having a district activity today and we are going to go golfing out on the ice - apparently christmas trees mark the holes.
"So the other day (the same day we learned about the golf) we were tracting this street and it really was nice that day. The sun was out and it wasn't snowing or anything. Anyways, it was cold enough to make our ears red... but that was nothing for us young elders - so we just went tracting with our coats and not gloves, hat, and scarf. As we got down to the last house on the street we saw this elderly lady walking out in her yard and we started up a conversation - she was like "Who are you" then without waiting for a response she read our tags and said "Jesus Christ... (simply stating it - not swearing) Oh you need to be in your house taking care of the women." So we were like "yeah, well we're missionaries and we're trying to help everyone - maybe by shoveling snow or something" "Yeah there are people that need help shoveling snow but not from people like you - they need help from people who wear tucs and scarfs and gloves" ha needless to say she didn't accept our offer to help - but it was funny to us.
"Another funny thing that happened .. well yesterday. This was the first time that somebody actually slammed their door on us. ha All we understood was "Pourquoi (Why)?!" And then a bunch of french we didn't understand and then the door.
"It has been really neat lately because I feel like the youth are starting to want to do missionary work in our wards. one YW has changed her mind about serving a mission. She always wanted to - but she was telling us that she was gonna go when she was 21 (nothing wrong with that) but then last night we had dinner at her family's house and she said that she was for sure gonna go on a mission... and even at 19 now."
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