Dear Family & Friends,
Hello! Merry Christmas to all of you and a Happy New Year!
Sincerest apologies for the missed e-mail this week; the inclement weather had precluded us from doing so.
We've been snowed in! Yesterday (Sunday) we attended church, however, it dismissed early because of the start of a huge storm. The English ward cancelled altogether! We had an entire day planned and we decided to continue working. The Bishop called and had us eat at his house. He firmly recommended that we go home. Not a long time later, we received a text from the zone leaders (which I forwarded to everyone in our district) which ordered everyone to their 'pads' (what we call our living quarters) for the rest of the day. Today, it has been snowing until only about noon. The snow is so deep that we had been shoveling for hours earlier. We had received a text shortly after waking at 6:30 that we're not to work or use the cars for today.
We shoveled around our neighbor's car and the driveway (no easy task as the snow was profoundly deep). The woman who lived there opened her window and handed down to us each a cup of hot chocolate with cream. She asked us to accept money a few times and we denited it, but we told her that the hot cholcate would be enough! ha ha.
The libraries were closed today because of the snow, so we couldn't have e-mailed even if we could have driven there.
I'll write next week!
Love,
Elder Steven Roberts
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