2017-03-14

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Bastante neve!

We woke up and already had more than a foot of snow. Did morning exercises, got ready, and when we started planning we looked at the forecast. It had been snowing all morning and wasn't projected to stop until TOMORROW. Not just snow, but 30-50mph winds. That's a blizzard haha. After we planned (we planned to just shovel snow all day) we spent some time studying. Then around 9:30 we got to work on our driveway. We live with the Tenempaguays (ten-imp-uh-gwaye) and they're really cool members. They're a whole other story. But we got started cleaning their massive driveway...took only about 3 hours :) there was about a foot and a half of snow. Then we hopped in his truck and he took us to their deli they own, and we had lunch there. It was closed, but it's this nice little building called Village Deli. It reminds me of that deli in downtown Swansboro whose name I've forgotten.. but then we cleaned the snow from their deli so they can open tomorrow!(another 2 hours) and then he drove us to their pizzeria and we spent another hour or 2 there cleaning. We got back around 4pm. And then they had us over for dinner at 5pm. They brought up a few points about missionary work that I liked a lot. Our main focus is teaching lessons, but they reminded us that it's really about loving them, and becoming their friend. Just have the gospel always on your lips, and relate it back to them as you're becoming friends. They suggested ways to become friends as missionaries. Service was one, but they talked about it differently. Another was joking around with people! Hermano Tenempaguay did that old joke of daddy's about the hotel and $30...and the boat riddle...3 things on one side of the river, and you can only take one at a time….mommy you'll know. I'm hoping that I can remember some more things like that so that we can use them to get to know people better and to make friends faster and gain trust. Also, we are thinking a lot about visual hands on lessons. So those 2 things...riddles and hands on lessons is what we are working on and would love help.


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