ICE STORM!! ❄️

 Hi everyone!! I hope you had a marvelous week and all your dreams came true...

February 11th: We had a lesson w/Frank and Sister Giovo about Jesus!! BTW I just love Sister Prettyman! We get along soo good :). After that we drove to Rick's & helped him shovel his drive way!! So we helped shovel for a bit and he isnt interested in the gospel at all RIP jk it was worth it to do service..anways we went to go help Frank find a dog..we never found it but we did get to meet Franks dog George and he was super super friendly. Frank said we could drive his snow mobile and ngl it looked pretty fun but we didn't cause mission rule number 57 says you can't drive Franks snowmobile..jk but yeah we just didn't wanna get hurt. Then after weekly planning we went to Kae Kaes basketball game and even though they lost it was still a great game and we were happy we got to support our members.Then we had a lesson with April about the sabbath day and why we keep it holy! 

February 12th: We had District Council today! We talked about how important it is to bring the spirit into lessons and how to do that :) but we had to leave early to help Rick shovel some more. We were shoveling for 2 hours. Many New Yorkers say this is the worst winter they've had in years. So after we shoveled Rick to freedom we had a street we wanted to knock and no one was interested but I believe we planted some sturdy seeds..and we talked to this nice old guy named Scott on the side of the road and he was cool but he wasn't interested at all. Then we had a cute interaction with Al and Buster!! Al had the thickest NY accent ever and I love it! Al said that he really appreciates us and he wants us as friends but he's not interested in learning. We dropped off cookies to April and Amanda and then practiced for our musical number.

February 13th: So today was one of the BEST DAYS EVA! We had a lesson with Frank on the phone bout the restoration and the preisthood power and Franks really opening up to us!! After the lesson we talked a bit with him as if we were besties and he always gives us a heads up if there is a snow storm. Then we had an awesome lesson with Leyna about Jesus Christ! His earthly ministry, his gospel, his love towards everyone, his forgiveness, his atonement, his resurrection and all the christ like attributes! Then we invited her to study one christ like attribute this week and we said we would send her one faith scripture a day cause she chose faith! And I just came up with this invitation on the spot. Sister Prettyman said that was one of the best invitations ever and Leyna gas had some cool experiences while studying faith! Then we went to go help the food bank in Mexico!! Now me and my dad served in Mexico!! ( yes there is a Rome NY and a Mexico NY) anyways it was really fun helping at the food pantry and Jamie kept whistling "if I only had a brain" by wizard of Oz and it was really funny! Then we Bills lesson! At Bills there were two ten year old girls stacy and Kyline and then Tammy and Shelia and Art! So we taught all these people God is loving and the restoration! It was seriously the most spirit filled lesson ever! I loved everything about it! We helped Stacy pray and it was so cute! Then the whole fam wanted a Book of Mormon! You get a Book of Mormon and you get a Book of Mormon!! God's in all the details!! Then we had a phone call with this lady from New Jersey!

Valentines Day! I fr forgot it was valentines day cause we were just finding almost the entire day..but Sister Rettig saved us and got us some hot coco mugs full of chocolate! It was really sweet and made my day! We knocked a ton of houses today and everyone was like "go inside, your gonna freeze to death and only one lady was slightly interested. And there was this really scary dog. We drove all the way to Randy's and he lives in Perish and in Perish they were currently having a snow storm so we gave him a Book of Mormon and skidatled home..an had a lesson with him on the phone. 

February 15th: Today was really fun, we had all finding today and we bought these dinosaur eggs cause why not. Anyways no one was interested but we did a lot of knocking. Then we seriously took an entire road trip to have a lesson with Sally about the Bible! She is the BEST and she made us cookies. And there was a snow mobile race thing at our finding area so thatt was cool. Then I got a call that night that I have to give the spiritual thought at Zone Conference!! 

February 16th: No church:( all the church's in Syracuse were canceled cause of the ice storm! But we did a bizzilion phone calls and played in the snow and made a snow man ☃️  

Spiritual thought: This week I've been reading about Abinadi He is so cool! He has so much faith in Jesus and Heavenly Father that he knew even when going up in flames that they loved him and that every thing would be okay. I strive to be more like Abinadi

-❤️ sista Hodges :)