Out A Year

Hello hello everyone!!

We've had a bunch of lessons with Glenn trying to get him ready for his baptism this Saturday!! We are so excited and it has been a process to try and get him taught everything before it happens!  He came to church with us yesterday and that was so great! It was really hard to arrange though because we had a member go pick him up and the member got to his house and tried calling/texting him but wasn't getting any response.  So we called Glenn and had him stay on the phone with us while he got outside while also texting the member updates that he was coming out and anyways, he got to church! We gave him a Book of Mormon and he is doing great! He has his interview with President Matos tonight at 9pm! Pray all goes well for him!!

Side story, Sister Livingston asked me what time it was the other day and I looked at the clock which read 1:18pm and in my head I thought of Isaiah 1:18 and starting to recite the scripture.  I didn't get very far into the scripture before I realized what I was doing. My comps just laughed at me. 

Okay Wednesday was my year mark!! Which is so sad!! And weird. We had a lesson with Garrett.  He asked about temples and family history and why "Mormons are obsessed with it".  It was fun to explain and he really likes the idea of proxy work. 

Thursday we had surprise service.  We were an hour late because it was a surprise, oops.  They didn't care though. We got to work with and older gentleman, Dan, from the last couple food drives.  We had a fun time talking about horses and he rides Western!!  Most people out here ride English. Also I got sunburned.

Saturday we had another food drive that was supposed to take a little over 3 hours but there were a lot of people that showed up to help so it actually only took us an hour and a half! It was really fun!

Okay, yesterday. First thing to remember, yesterday was fast Sunday. We got another snow warning Saturday and our cars got grounded again.  We were NOT happy! We had committed both Garrett and Glenn to come to church and we were afraid it was going to get cancelled again.  So we anxiously waited to hear if church got cancelled.  Two of our three wards cancelled in person attendance. But our YSA didn't cancel!!  We couldn't drive so we walked to church which wasn't going to be a big deal because it's only a little over a mile there and walking is kind of in our job description.  HOWEVER, there is this HUGE hill on 23'rd street.  We couldn't even get a good enough picture to do it justice.  This hill took us 15-20 minutes to get up! That's half the time it took us to get to the church building!!  We were DYING! We finally got to church, seated Garrett and Glenn, everything went great, they loved it and want to come again next week and we are walking down the stairs to leave when we get an email telling us that our cars are officially ungrounded. We were like "You have got to be kidding."  So we start walking home and realize we aren't going to make it to our lesson that's at 4:45pm.  So we rescheduled and got home 10 minutes before 5pm and just dropped to the floor.  We were scheduled to break our fast with Glenn and the AP's at 5pm so we called and Glenn didn't answer.  It was fine, we were already dehydrated, what's a little more time? 15 minutes after the attempted phone call our building fire alarm goes off and we were pretty confused and wondering if we should go outside or if it was an accident. Glenn called us and the AP's back 5 minutes after the alarm started going off and we had to answer!  We stayed explained our situation and stayed on mute while they prayed. While they were praying the fire engines are coming around our corner to the apartment we are in and we are just trying not to be irreverent. We ended the call after they were done praying and decided that since the firemen were here we were probably fine so we made dinner and ate because by then we were starving.  It was a good Sunday overall.

I love you all!

Sister Creager