Crazy Snow Driving

Dear Everyone :)

i dont even have words for the tenderness of this week :) and it makes my heart just smile to think you have had the same week :)

Im praying really hard for you all and i know you are just going to be taken care of how it is all supposed to go.

SOOOO sister siu is AMAZING today she was telling us her "story" and she shouldnt even be ALIVE like.....ah man... and im crying typing this because of something kathy stienagel told me before i left.... but the story about the little asian guy they were teaching and his dad had a restoration pamphlet from years and years ago?? THAT HAPPENED TO HER FAMILY! like... she was telling us that they dont know where it came from or how it was even in her language... cause (thats the weird part we dont even have a book of mormon in her language (cause its not ACTUALLY vietnamese its some little tribe down there? id dunno) but ya so soooo miraculous) and THEN when they escaped to canada the missionaries found them and they all went "WHAT?? WE KNOW THIS STUFF!!!" and its super cool!! but actually it was only her and her sister that got baptized her mom and dad are suuuper protestant... and but they still sound super cool. i dunno i just thought it was so miraculous and amazing at how Heavenly Father provides for his children as a whole and then as FAMILIES! he love our families! :)

something i have learned this week was how to pray. for real how to pray. like to NEED what you are praying for and to make sure you have enough faith and to plead with heavenly father and talk to him like he is REALLY listening to me and to bawl my eyes out when i just felt... like he REALLY LISTENS TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!! a;sdlkfja;lsdkf i just love this gospel... i cant even handle how happy this gospel can make us! i wanna SING!!

sooooo crazy story time!

on our way to drayton valley.. the weather was AWFUL TIMES 5... LIKE FREEZING RAIN. the kind that shut the airports down last year in utah? ya? gross.

sooooo we are driving to drayton and this car SPINS OUT on the highway in front of us... and we had to swerve to the left to get out of the way and then OUR car couldnt get back into our lane so we were headed towards a TRUCK and then it just corrected itself and we were able to pull over and ran and helped this car that had just spun out and it was a little family from COLUMBIA!! and they had 2 little girls... everyone was pretty shook up and there car was SOOOO stuck in like 2 feet of snow in the ditch soooo we asked if we could say a prayer that we would be able to get it out... and that if they had the faith ,God would help us get the car out so they wouldnt have to pay for a tow truck.. and so we used out TINY little shovel to dig out the wheels and then 3 sisters and one little comlubian lady started heaving against their car but it wasnt going anywhere and then this TEXAN pulls up.. and i mean like he was a cowboy strait down to his boots hahaha sooo funny he comes and helps us PUSH IT OUT.. like it was a total miracle cause we were basically pushing it up a 4 foot wall in 2 feet of snow... MIRACLE

and then AFTERWARDS the lady says iin broken english "i know your church.. back in columbia my pa was listening to your "fathers" (haha) and you dont drink coffee and you believe in joseeph smeeeth" haha

so we were so excited to tell her about what we believe and she invited us to DINNER AT THEIR HOUSE and they want to learn more!!! sooooo they arent in our area but we got a GOLDEN potential for sis. siu when she goes back to drayton on wednesday haha

ummm im trying to think of all the things that have happened this week.. i need to be better at writing it all down... much to my embarassment my journal is more of a diary annnnd i dont really keep that good a record of the happenings but more of my thoughts so you get what you get from me....

tender mercies tho, just to have WONDERFUL WONDERFUL angels in this ward of ours... dinners and thanksgivings and meetings with them all just makes me loooove them,,, well like i already love them but i just dont even know how to say how much i have fallen in love with this place and these people. mom you have to find kathy harding on fb... she reminds me of a mix of grandmom and eyrin and you and aunty broni all in one and i just love her so much.

ummmmm lets see what else..

i am eating SO SO healthy... like you would be proud of me. no white bread.. actually not much bread.. at all really. i dont reamember when i bought bread last.. but veggies and fruit and granola and get this... SOY MILK... its cheaper and yummier :) im so granolaey and healthy tehe... :)

oh you asked about the people here ya?

my companions oh i lvoe them i lolloooooosd;ofjasdkl;fjal;sdkflloooove sister schofield.. i almost pee in my pants i laugh so hard with her.. she has the greatest sense of humor... the dry kind of humor ya know?? or i should actually spell humor like humour.. i think?? i dunno....
but yes she is so funny and fun and i love her and she did my hair today (very za za) haha she reminds me of kathy ALL the time. even her style.

sister siu is also HILLARIOUS she has a funny little accent and her voice sounds like the minions on dispicable me and she is sassy as... as ever? haha i dunno she cracks me up. little 4'8 lady!

ummmmm i love sister rolls, she takes such good care of us.. and she left us cupcakes at her house while we were doing laundry that were so yummy it was cruel.... soooo not so healthy there but they were SO GOOD!

sister harding well BOTH OF THEM theres 2 haha kathy and tracy and they both help alot. tracy brought a croation friend to church! :) and so we are getting a croation BOM for her.

ummmmm our teaching pool is SEVERELY small.... but we are going to just open the flood gates here. one way we are going to do that is work with the YOUTH we feel really good abotu that and are planning a sweet lesson/ fireside/ disguised as District meeting thing for them. and they all get call letters and badges and everything haha so cute...

the ganders we ate with them last night and her house is ADORABLE like pottery barn or anthropology all mixed together and its from all over yard sales and vintage shops... oh i love it!

nancy and alfred had us over for "drinks" hahaha we bought some sparkling cider and drank it out of REAL SHERRY GLASSES hahaha it was great! and THEN alfred let me play his fiddle!!! needless to say im AWFUL at it but it made for some cute pictures hey?! haha

i am SO FRUSTRATED with the computers here i dont know how i will ever be able to send you photos.. until i get transfered!!! humbag!

as to the mail situation i got a package from the williams!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! did i say that last week??? pres manion brought it!! and i also got a letter from jill! and from danelle!! that were from my first week here! hahahaha aw man the mail situation stinks but i am ETERNALLY grateful for the package... im wearing the socks today actually and the lotion AND the chapstick. i love them. oh i love them :)