Hello everyone-
WOW, today is my 10 month mark!!! That is so crazy!!! I don't know where the time has gone. Pretty soon I'm going to have to figure out when I'm going to come home (Aug. or Oct).... :S I don't want to think about going back to reality! haha
So last Monday I had lobster for the first time.... a big, red, ugly animal on my plate. We got to break it all apart. Can't say it was my favorite, but it was fun to tear it apart. The Flinders made it for us. They are a super fun family in the branch. Also on Monday I started getting a cough/cold that my lovely companion decided to share with me.... :( It was one of the worst colds I have had in years.
Wednesday our cars were grounded.... We weren't allowed to drive them because of the snow. We got about 16 inches in one day in Plymouth. (Some other parts of the mission got hit WAY harder.,... 22''+) We had service that morning, that we didn't want to miss, so we got all bundled up and walked 2-2 1/2 miles in the over-the-top-of-our-boots deep snow. It took about an hour to walk there, then we did service for and hour, then walked home. When we got home, we ate lunch, then I shoveled snow for an hour, then we stayed in the rest of the day (with permission from President). Sadly, we didn't get to take a nap.... we kept ourselves busy working on our youth activity we are doing tomorrow, the lesson we taught in RS yesterday, and our talks we gave yesterday.
Thursday, because of all the cold meds I was on, and my mostly useless navigator (she is completely directionally retarded, and has never driven/can't use a map....... it's nothing against her), we missed our exit to go to district meeting... well we got lost. Needless to say, it took us an hour to get to district meeting, instead of the normal 30 min.
Friday my cold was killing me. Luckily it was weekly planning, so we don't normally go out till 2 anyways. I slept from 12:45 till 2:30 (with a couple little breaks). After that, I felt so much better. We were able to go out and work, after that.
Saturday morning we were out of cold med's so before we headed out for the day, we stopped at walmart to get some stuff. As we were checking out, our cashier (who has checked us out many times) was looking at my name tag weird. I moved my hair, and she started asking about where the church is and stuff. I was telling her, and then I asked her if she could take info about the church while at work. She said she couldn't, but she gave us her cell phone number and said to call her because she is looking for a new church!!! How cool!!!!!! We were so excited.
Later that day we were out tracting. We were walking on a road that had like no houses, but we were heading to a less actives.... there was a small spot that looked like it would be a nice path to walk on. I was going to play a joke on Sister Gaggini and pretend to go walk off the other way. Well the joke was on me. When I took my second step, I sunk.... My left leg was mid thigh deep in snow. Oh my goodness... It was cold, but funny. On our way back I tried to fill the whole in with snow, so that if someone saw it they wouldn't think something weird was happening.... well next thing I know, I am once again, mid thigh deep in snow with my left leg. Super annoying!!!! My leg was freezing for awhile, but it got better over time.
Yesterday Sister Gaggini and I both had to speak in sacrament meeting. She talked for 30 min.... I talked for 20, and didn't even get to cover anything, but we were completely out of time. Then we taught RS.
We are still working hard, trying to find people, (and get over our colds).
I hope you all have a wonderful week, and letters would be wonderful! :)
Love, Sister Rankin
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