Tjenare!
I hope you guys have had a good week, because we have.
Spring is here baby!! Not really, actually. Not at all,
actually. The temperature is pretty consistently around freezing and we got
another foot or so of snow this week so that's fun. This is probably the most
snow I've ever seen on the ground at one time in my whole life although last
year apparently they had about 6 feet so this winter has been rather mild
comparatively.
Elder Mathias lost his last nametag bringing us to a grand
total of 6 since he came to Boden 9 weeks ago. He was stressing out about losing
the last one so he asked that we say a prayer to find it. We decided that he
had the most faith that we would find it so he should hold the prayer so he
prayed and we went out looking for it in the dark and in the middle of a snow
storm. We stopped by a little snow bank where I had pushed him into the snow
but we couldn't see any nametag anywhere except when Elder Mathias looked at
the ground from a specific angle and found the nametag lying in the snow while
more snow piled on top. If we had waited much longer, then the snow would have
covered it completely, the plow would have picked it up, and it would be gone
forever. So that was a little miracle. But maybe when all the snow melts we
might be able to find the other lost tags.
This week we ran into a surprising amount of people on the
street that we were intending to get in contact with but couldn't. The most
notable one being this one time when we were knocking doors and someone opened
and the whole house smelled like popcorn and I got snacky and realized that The
Dollar Store was very close by so I convinced Elder Mathias to come with me to
buy popcorn at the store before going in for lunch and so we did and while we
were there we met the 19 year-old son to someone we were teaching who had asked
us to stop visiting. We were sad that we wouldn't be visiting him more, but we
were also sad that we wouldn't be able to talk to his son who seemed interested
in what we had to say but never really got the opportunity to talk to us. So we
got to walk around the store with him and talk with him about a good deal of
things. It was really fun. The Lord works in mysterious ways. Popcorn. Huh. Who
woulda guessed?
Another kind of fun thing that happened this week was that
we were hanging with our good friend and fellow Red Cross volunteer Sara and
were helping her renovate her house. Elder Mathias was scraping off wallpaper
while I was sanding the stairs--the whole summer we spent sanding our porch in
NJ came in handy there. Anyway, Elder Mathias noticed there were some wires by
the circuit-breaker that he needed to scrape around and was afraid to that he
might touch them and wanted to check if they were live. So in fear that he
might touch them, he decided to touch them...carefully.
Luckily, he was fine because he went to lengths to assure
that he would not have been harmed, but all the lights and electrical
appliances in the whole house shut off. Sara's boyfriend knew enough about
electricity to fix the problem and get everything on again which was great. But
the funniest part was while we were getting back to work, Sara came to us from
the kitchen and said "Hey guys, come check this out." She then showed
us that by turning on the stove, the lights in the laundry room and a radio by
in the kitchen would turn on. So evidently something was still wrong with the
electricity. With a little more finagling, Sara's boyfriend fixed it all up and
everything was as good as new. We all had a good laugh about it. So without
dwelling too much on who poked what into what and who nearly blew up the house
and who caused the "spooky action at a distance" (Quote: Albert
Einstein) between the radio and the stove, it was a thoroughly pleasant
evening.
This week, I've been reading a lot in Romans and I love this
scripture. Everyone makes mistakes and everyone falls short. There is no use
gloating about personal strengths, judging others because of their mistakes, or
even beating ourselves up over our own weaknesses. No one is perfect and
although this doesn't justify our validate any complacency in our own eternal
progression, it is important to keep in mind a realist perspective.
Have a great week!
Love,
Äldste Cummings
2.This drink is sold only twice a year--Christmas season and
Easter season. Mmmm baby, it's back.
3 "Goldie, look at this! Look at all the [snow] in his mustache. Good sir that's a lot of [snow]!" -Flynn Ryder
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