One Year Older and Wiser Too!

Dear Family and Friends,

This has been an interesting week. It was sadly less productive, but we had inclement weather conditions, power outages, and sicknesses which led to several cancelled appointments on top of just not being a great week to find because of the holidays. But it was fairly entertaining.

First, I don't recall if I mentioned, but Sister Rollins has several health conditions which rather limit what and when she can eat: she is lactose intolerant, she is allergic to white flour, she is hypoglycemic, and she cannot eat marinara sauce (the last one is a puzzle to all). It tends to make the members fairly anxious about what they can/should feed us, especially as she is still new to the area so it is a surprise each time we confirm with our dinner appointments. On top of all that, Sister Rollins own food preferences basically categorize her as an herbivore as she does not really care for meat. So on Tuesday we were eating with an older lady in our ward who is a fairly particular person in any case and she had been planning to feed us spaghetti and so when she got our message confirming dinner she got a little fidgetty, but told us on the phone that it was okay and she would just make Sister Rollins a nice little steak . . . . To make a long story, short (too late) Sister Rollins ended up cutting her meat into little pieces and slipping them into her salad bowl and I had to try and eat them out of her salad bowl without any of the old ladies at the table catching on, and the rest of her steak she slipped inconspicuously into her napkin and took it out in her bag to be placed in our next appointment's neighbor's trash can. This is going to be a complicated transfer in terms of dinner arrangements.

I also hit my year mark this past week. That is a very strange thought. But I've rededicated myself to working as hard as possible in the next six months and make my time count. It was fun though because our dinner appointment was tipped off by Sister Rollins and made me a cake for the occassion.

Lastly we had nasty rain and wind storms with the wind getting up to 60 miles an hour. Luckily we were in our weekly planning for most of the wind on Friday, but we got caught out in the rain several times tracting. I actually enjoyed it, but Sister Rollins is freezing her toes off--as she tells me frequently each time we are out tracting. But, we found an investigator out of if because they felt sorry for us being out in the rain. There is no bad weather for missionary work!

Love,
Sister L. Sorensen