23 Jan 2014

Hello everyone.  We finally got some measurable snow.  It was so fun, we had to take a picture of it.

This is looking out of our living room window down on the center court of our apartment complex.  The snow was nice but the temperature dropped also.  This was last Friday and since then it has rained so the snow is gone.  And by the way, this is the only picture this week.  We just didn't take the camera with us.  

We are preparing for a new couple coming in on the 28th.  They are from Idaho Falls and the president thinks Elder Shaw probably knows how to drive a "stick shift", so he's giving him the only car in the mission that has a standard transmission.  They are replacing the Sheleys, who will be going home on Tuesday the 4th of February.  We also got news of another couple that will be arriving on the 9th of March.  They are from Canada and she is 17 years younger than her husband.  

So Friday night, we went grocery shopping.  Our landlord was coming on Saturday to fix some things in the apartment and we didn't want to miss him and we also had to go and inspect the AP's apartment.  But anyway, when we left the store we thought we would take a different way home.  And it was really nice until we hit the "traffic jam"!  We were in line for over 40 mins.  When we finally got up to see what was causing the back up - it was a stalled truck in the middle lane.  It really is frustrating because they just leave things in the road instead of trying to move them out of the way.  Good thing I didn't have anything frozen.  

On Sunday, our branch president - Pres. Jagard asked Wayne and I if we would go and do some shopping for a lady that needed help and bring the food to FHE where we could meet her and give her the food.  He said he would pay us back the next Sunday.  So we had to run over first thing Monday morning to the grocery store.  Pres. Jagard told us to spend about 100 zl, which is about 35 dollars.  We got some things for her and then ran over to work.  We left work at 4:30 pm because I had made Hawaiian Haystacks for dinner and I needed to heat up the chicken sauce.  And guess what, we got into another traffic jam.  It took us from 4:30 to 5:50 to get to the chapel, which is normally 30 mins down the road.  Another car in the center lane.  FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!

Wayne and I have been trying to clean out the office a little bit.  There are 3 ring binders in every nook and cranny with accounting paperwork in them.  So on Wednesday, Wayne asked Germany how many years we had to save.  They came back and told us we needed to keep 6 years.  I cannot tell you how much stuff we can get rid of.  We're going to have a huge bonfire.

Our English class went really well this week.  We played a game call Typhoon.  Everyone seemed to enjoy it and they had really put their English speaking "caps" on.  

Well, that's it for this week.  We love you and miss you all.