Well, this week was a little weird!
At the beginning of this week I went to Connell again, this
time to exchange with Elder Farmer. It was fun as always! We got to meet some
interesting people and give a blessing. We also had P-Day a week ago and while
we were in Pasco they called and told us we needed to park our cars for the day
because of the weather. It was pretty snowy, but honestly it wasn't very
slippery. When they tell us to park our cars, we just have to wait until we are
allowed to drive again.
Basin City is a pretty big area with lots of farmland so if
we can't drive we are pretty much confined to Basin City itself. It's like 5
streets + a small trailer court. Luckily the next day we could drive again
but that wouldn't last very long :)
Flash forward to Friday, we were on our way to Pasco again,
and we got a call to park the car! We were really confused because it was all
nice and sunny in Basin City but apparently in the cities it was super bad weather.
We turned around and did our best to walk around that day. We ended up being
able to drive in the evening so we talked to the Branch Pres. about some stuff
and it turned our really well.
Saturday and Sunday.... Ooof. Saturday we wake up and we can
just hear super loud wind. We look outside and it's a literal blizzard. After
our morning studies we donned our armor of layers upon layers of clothes and
went out. At first we were trying to use umbrellas to shield our faces from the
freezing wind, but it was too strong. I could hardly walk some of the time
since I'm so big (especially with a big coat). We walked around the edge of
Basin City and some members saw that we were (crazily) walking around! She
yelled at us and told us to go home, but we made it to the Church just fine.
She ended up texting us for the rest of the day to make sure we were ok
:)
At the Church there was a funeral for one of the Counselors
in the Mission Presidency's daughter. They weren't expecting anyone to show
because of the weather but the parking lot was packed and they had 25
volunteers to shovel during the services. After that we made it home and then
we got the call to stay home for the rest of the night. Crazy Stuff! The snow
was up to my knees in some places. Some local people have said that was the
worst storm since the 80's.
Sunday, everything was cancelled. We did our best to shovel
driveways for old people. We ended up only doing 3 in the space of 3 hours, but
it was good. The snow had drifted into some piles around that were a few feet
deep and it was like shoveling concrete!
Today should be interesting, hopefully our little corolla
does fine driving to Pasco haha.
Les amo mucho!
- Elder Thompson
Fotos:
- About to shovel the Casper's
(Members we live with) driveway.
- Elder Barlow truckin ahead.
This was Saturday the craaazy day.
- We had a little drifted mountain
of snow outside our door. Doesn't look that big but it was probably 2.5
feet deep where we had to walk.
- The impending doom
Friday
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