It's a Wonderful Life week #39

This week has  been a lot of doing what we do every week.  It would seem it may be boring, but just the opposite.  It is a wonderful life here at Martin's Cove.  This is such a sacred place that the Spirit is strong.  What more could we ask for.  Any of our senior friends or siblings that are reading this...don't deny yourselves of the great blessing the Lord has in store for you if you will follow his council and serve a mission.

We Share This Sacred Beautiful Place With Friends

We have spent most of our time this week working in the office.  President and Sister Pace are still in Salt Lake receiving treatments at The Huntsman Center.  This puts more on us to do everything that we can on our own.  Our leaders in Salt Lake have told President Pace that he should stay in Salt Lake at least until this series of chemo is finished.  That means the the middle of February is the earliest that he and his wife will be joining us.  We ask for prayers in their behalf.

As usual Elder Smart is sharing his talents and helping all the missionaries with their Family History.  He usually stays an extra couple of hours each night in the office to do this.  This is what he loves!  Our Schwan's truck driver is LDS from Rawlins.  He is the High Councilman over Family History in his stake.  He has recruited Elder Smart to do a couple of Seminars in Rawlins to help the members there learn how to find temple names  This should be fun.

We are really learning to love all the fellow missionaries here.  Sundays are so spiritual.  Our meetings are amazing.  We love going to church and hearing the other missionaries talk and teach.  We had the "opportunity" of speaking in sacrament this week.  We grow each time we have this "opportunity".

We spent our Prep Day at home this week.  It is always good to get some things done around the house and just relax. Two weeks without going to the grocery store is enough, though.  Since we do not have food storage here, nor room to store extra, we will be ready to hit the grocery store tomorrow.

We have had a good snow storm this week.  Pictures below show the church owned snow plow at Martin's cove plowing our driveway and our rover after the storm

The snow here is very different than the snow we get in Utah.  Utah's snow is full of moisture.  The snow here is dry and flakey.  It can be easily blown by the wind.  We plow the roads after a snow storm but the wind continues to blow and it will cause drifts that will sometimes be several feet high.  This then requires us to use the snow plow every day and sometimes more than once a day to plow the roads to remove the drifts.  This has happened this week...one snow storm and plowing all week.  It has been cold and so the snow does not melt. It just drifts.  We had temperatures below 0 one day and the snow froze so hard that we had a very hard time getting rid of any drifts.  It is finally warm enough today that some of it is melting.

Where did our rover go?
Picture is taken from in the house through the window and screen.

Clearing the snow off of our driveway

We have a strong testimony of the gospel and the Plan of Salvation.  Our trials on this earth are necessary for our progression.  We have a loving Heavenly Father and Mother that love us and are routing for us, but they will never take away our agency.  We pray that you all can feel His love and know that you can make it through your trials, for you are a child of deity.

Love always,

Grandpa and Grandma, Mom and Dad, Elder and Sister Smart, Paul and Annie.

Happy Birthday this week to Steve Smith.🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂