"Land Ho, me maties!" Spring is coming.
We have actually been quite fortunate and have never really had any trouble driving around in all of the nasty weather until last weekend. Several Sister Missionaries gathered at the mission home to watch the General Women's Broadcast, and while we were inside being spiritually fed, a good old blizzard blew in. When we walked out afterwards to go home, all of our vehicles were buried under 4-6 inches of snow--- surprise!
Did not see that coming! Out came the snow blower to clear a path, and a broom to clear our vehicles, then I hopped into my van to make the 5 minute drive home and got stuck in the snow twice. Each time I had to reverse, with little to no visibility and try another route, the worst being the downhill bit, and into oncoming traffic. I was finally able to get back to the mission home and President gave me a ride home in their 4 wheel drive vehicle -- no problem at all, and we even got around the city bus that was stuck on the hill, blocking our lane. Fantastic! The Lord watches over His missionaries, doesn't He. We now want our own 4 wheel drive vehicle!
Another exciting thing happened, just as good as getting safely home in a blizzard. I had the wonderful experience of doing Family History with one of our District Missionaries, Sister Sharp, from Cole Harbour area. She and I have met together about 3 times now, trying to reserve a family name for her to take to the Temple. Today, for our District Meeting, we were given permission to spend half of the time, one hour, on FH, throughout the whole mission.
Sister Sharp and I dug into her family file again. We both felt that she needed to contact her aunt, who had reserved some family names in Family Search several years ago, which we did, but with no results.The spirit told us to keep trying, so we looked up the 1-800 number, called it and got help from Salt Lake. They agreed to work on releasing the reserved names to Sister Sharp, only because she has already contacted her aunt! Awesome!
But this process will take a while and Sister Sharp really wanted a name for the Tuesday Temple session next week, so we got back on the computer, even though I was feeling a bit tired after 2 hours of FH. As we again put our shoulder to the wheel, we found that her great-great-grandmothers name was not entered into the system, but the husband and children were. After some research on ancestry, we found that name, supported by census records, and we were able to enter and reserve it, so Sister Sharp now has a name for Tuesday! Incredible! AND she discovered that this side of the family is from..............Nova Scotia!!! What! She and I just looked at each other with wide open eyes and mouths, then started laughing, and hugging! Her ancestor was born here, then moved to California --- smart move, given the weather we have just had! SO amazing --- now we are going to look for headstones in a grave yard and see if we can get pictures. Wonderful! Love it!
We continue to have fun with "our" Missionaries, and love to work with them. We have lots of good times together, and many learning experiences. It keeps us young, being with this age group.
We Love the Lord, this is His work. There is lots of work to do, but also many experiences that we will look back on and treasure.
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