First, Happy Birthday to Catherine! I reminded myself all week to write you last Monday and of course I did not remember until 10 minutes into dinner! Also Happy Birthday to Dad (and happy Blessing day to Peter) this Sunday.
Well that great time of year has finally arrived in the Greater State of Jefferson--certain people up here believe that they live in the 51st state in the Union, the Greater State of Jefferson and not California. From the number of skunks we have smelled and seen both in the road and skulking alongside the road, it is clear that skunk-mating season is once more upon us. Sister Rowlands says that when she got here a year ago everyone she met in her ward told her that it was skunk-mating season, so now she's feeling nostalgic. Thankfully, we have yet to be served skunk for dinner. Though in the last week or so we have had elk, venison, and Johnny. Yes, we were sitting at dinner last Monday eating a roast when our hostess remarked, "umm. Johnny tastes good." It seems we ate their grandson's 4H project. Kind of sad, but apparently he made a good Ham.
The sun disappeared for most of the week. We had cloudy skies, cold and heavy winds, rain, hail, and even snow in some parts of our area (not that we were there when it was snowing, but we did experience the hail) and yet people continue to lament the lack of rain. Everyone that is except Carol. Carol is one of our investigators in her 50s--she had a baptism date set for last February but it never went through. She told us NOT to come up this Friday (we go every Friday to see her and her sister Maggie who is also investigating, but they've blown us off the last three weeks) because she was certain that we would drive off the cliff in "all the snow." Californians. We went up anyway and the roads were completely dry and we had a good lesson with Maggie.
Friday we had to get rides down to Gridley to attend the Trainer/Trainee conference. It was nice to see a little more of the mission and the Conference was good. It was fun to see the other Elders who came out when I did and we had some good lessons from President Perry, Sister Perry, and the Assistants to the President. But work should continue as usual this week.
A few more notes on Sister Rowlands. I forgot to mention the most important things about Sister Rowlands last week. Namely that she was studying Nursing before she came out, so she took exemplary care of me when I had a cold the other week. But most importantly, and now brace yourselves; she was actually IN Disney's High School Musical, a fact that simply amazes Chloe our 9-year-old investigator. I hope all continues well with everyone else!
Love,
Sister Sorensen
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