This week was great!

This week was great! I'm continuing to love it down here! It's been
down to 28 degrees at night and it feels wonderful to bike in! People
are in big coats during the day when it's 50 degrees out and I'm still
cruising around in my short sleeve shirt. People like to question how
I'm able to do it which starts conversations. Hopefully it leads to
some investigators!

My New Years was quite the party! I was in bed by 9:30!! That was
pretty great! We played card games that night because we weren't
allowed to go out. New Year's Day was our planning day. We did a lot
of planning. Solid 4 and a half hours of it. It's was great as well! I
always feel better when we have a solid planning session and we know
what we're going to do. We played cards and an improv game after our
planning. That was pretty fun!

We had a pretty good little down pour this week. It rained during the
night and we got a decent amount of it. Elder Burbank and I didn't
process that rain = a flooded wash... We went through the was and it
was few inches deep with water. It was cold that day so we had jackets
on. We decided that we were going to just blast through it and take
off our jackets when we get to our appointment. So we did and got
pretty wet and muddy. It was like riding through a river. It was way
fun! We got to our appointment and took of our muddy, wet jackets,
then realized our pants got pretty muddy as well...not the best idea
after all. We used our jackets to wipe off our pants the best we
could. Now we know it's worth the extra 10 minutes to go around on the
streets than cutting through the wash on a rainy day. Still it was a
fun time so it wasn't a total loss!

I'm continually amazed with the scriptures and the power they have. We
were in a lesson that felt like it was going no where. We were
explaining the same thing over and over and the guy would just stop
listening half way through our explanation. It was pretty frustrating.
I got the prompting to have him read a scripture that talks about the
topic we were explaining, so I did. Suddenly it all made sense to him
and the spirit was super strong in the room! It was a great experience
and a good reminder that the scriptures are truly the word of God.
They bring the spirit stronger than my words can and the spirit will
testify of truth.

Well I love you guys! Have a great week!

-Elder Tribe