Hello!!!

Well, I am officially frozen to the bone. It has been SO cold here! I am so glad I bought a coat when I did, I would have died!

It started snowing on Thursday, but it wasn't too bad so we went out.
By the time we got to our area the roads were white and frozen, so we didn't stay too long before we headed back to Middletown. We visited a few people here, and by 6 we were grounded. We had a dinner appointment at the bishops and he lives pretty close, so he just picked all of the missionaries up! Dinner was fun, there were two returned sisters who had served here a few years ago that were back to visit. One of them served in Olmstead so we had a lot to talk about :)

Friday we were grounded so we shoveled lots of snow in 5 degree weather. By the time we got home I felt like I had done the polar plunge three times. We got ungrounded around 5, so we got home, got warm and went to work!! We visited a less active who works on Rykers Island in the prisons there. That island was part of our zone in Olmstead and the bishop wanted us to go and visit the members that were staying there... Sketch! We didn't, of course.

Saturday I wasn't feeling well, so we didn't do a whole lot. We did go to sister fonts house for service! We sewed blankets... I had to teach the elders how to use the serger. That was an adventure :)

Sunday was... Sunday. It started to freeze and rain so the roads were super sketchy. We almost died on our way to dinner. Our cell phone didn't have service either. When we finally got to service our district leader had called us four times, left us a voicemail and texted us. Oops!! We made it there in one piece though :)

Monday was a miracle day!! We went to Port Jervis. It is as ghetto as it sounds haha. We had a media referral that lives up there and we had tried to stop by a few times but we were never able to talk with her.
Usually after a few tries you just give up, but for some reason I felt like we needed to stop by, so we did. Her name is Jill and she was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She has a friend who is a member in Jersey who referred her. She is AMAZING. She has been going through chemo, so that's why we haven't been able to reach her. She was just in between treatments when we dropped by.

We were also able to get in touch with a couple of less actives that we have never met before.., one of which isn't even on our ward list!!
It was pretty awesome. All of them were very welcoming and warm, and we'll be able to teach them over Facebook hopefully soon!

On Monday we also had to get our car fixed... It was making this horrible noise. It sounded like there was something stuck in the breaks. I'll attach a picture of our wheel... I don't even know what happened. I'm sure the guys at Firestone thought I was retarded. :)

We've seen a few other miracles this week, but I'm short on time.
Sister Orme is awesome. I love her :) she's keeping me humble. She made me ask the elders to come and change a lightbulb for us because I couldn't reach and she didn't know how. How embarrassing!! And they still haven't changed it!!

Anyways... I love you all!!
-sister Toone