Winter Blah

I haven't posted for awhile, so thought I'd better do a little blogging. This is the slow wintertime here in western NY and we'd like to hibernate like everyone else does, but we keep going to the Sites and we still go teaching with the Sister missionaries -- even if it's a slow & stormy day.


The weather has warmed up some from the zero temperatures we had for a few weeks, now it's rainy and windy. With all the snow we have it could make things pretty soggy.

We have transfers this week and Zone Conf. next week, so we will be doubly busy. We worked at the Visitor's Center at the Hill Cumorah today and had about 35 visitors, so it was fun to see some people coming again. There were lots of the Sister missionaries who were hanging around too, so that's always interesting and full of fun. Last week we had a cute couple from Brazil visit at the Grandin Bldg. Elder Hamblin and I took them on the tour and they really loved it. During the tour they confided in us that they had not been active in the Church for several years, but that he had just taken a new job and had been sent to Geneva, NY for some training. When they saw that it was only about 15 miles to Palmyra, they decided to come and see the Church History Sites -- the Grandin bldg. was their first stop. He was quite emotional and really sincere when he told me he thought this must have been the reason he was sent here for training and she was in tears by the time we had shared our testimonies. They could hardly wait to get to the Smith Farm and the Sacred Grove. She hugged and hugged me when they were ready to leave and I'm sure the Spirit had touched their hearts. It felt so good to have someone respond so tenderly like that!!

There's not much new going on here. Oh, we do have a new piece of furniture -- this sweet companion I live with bought me a new rocker/recliner. The old chair here in the apt. was killing my back, so we splurged and bought an inexpensive (but nice) one that we can leave for someone else to enjoy when we go home. It's a great improvement!