May 5, 2014

Enjoy this week's email!

Hey!

I found out about Grandma [Sydnie's grandmother passed away this past week] right before we got to go to the trail center with a less-active. But honestly, it was so cool to feel the Spirit as we went there and talked about the importance of temples and to drive around the temple grounds and to feel the spirit there and to know that that is what Grandma is feeling now and that we will get to be together forever. It was perfect because we also got to go around the temple grounds and to feel the Spirit there was so comforting! The trail center was great! We went with Michelle, a less-active. Some members came with us and drove us all up. It was so awesome. Michelle loved it and the Spirit there was amazing. We took a pretty long tour and just got to mosey through all the exhibits and really just soak everything in. We didn't really have a time limit, so we just went as slow or as fast as we wanted and she (and us) learned a lot. She came home from it and told the entire family how much she loved it. So hopefully they will all be able to come back to it soon. It is such a blessing to have the trail center and to be in an area where there is so much family history!

The most adventurous part of last week: we were coming home from an appointment in the country, about 5 miles out of town, Saturday night. We saw 2 deer and literally barely missed them. They were going across the road, then saw us, and booked it the other way. We were talking about it the whole way home, how it was a miracle that we didn't hit them and then we got rear ended by a dear old man. Everyone was fine. There was an ambulance, so we stopped and pulled over and apparently he didn't see us or the ambulance and ran into us. He was coming back from a farming convention and was tired (don't know why you would tell anyone that but whatever). He was super apologetic and told us and the police that it was all his fault (which it was). The police thought we were a little sketchy, but try explaining that we do live in Red Oak but we are missionaries. We don't know how long we will be here so that's why I have a Utah drivers license, driving a car that's not actually mine with Nebraska plates in Iowa. It was pretty interesting that's for sure. And the poor guy that ran into us kept asking "who is telling you to do all these things?" because we had to call the guy in charge of cars and tell him everything that is going on and to fill out all the reports etc. Quite an interesting night. We are still trying to figure out all the details with getting the car fixed.

However, the "cool" thing about small towns is that for any car accident, arrest, etc, they put all the details in the paper and on the radio. So we will be the first missionaries in the paper and on the radio in Red Oak. Awesome! Sister Nix is apparently getting numerous copies of the newspaper this week and recording the radio :)

Have a great week!