Hahaha, I'm sure plenty of you have heard about the storms that have pummeled New England over this last week. What I'm not sure you understand is the magnitude of it. I really hope the pictures I send will do it justice.
We were red-dotted for a full 24-hours when "Juno" hit on Tuesday. (Red-dotted means that we're not allowed on the roads with a car. And a severe caution for even leaving the house.) Sister Couto and I spent the day at home, cleaning the house, doing our nails, and staring out of the windows. We're talking crazy snow. I don't know if I've ever seen anything like it! It was fun to watch, but we got restless. There was so much we could have done at the office with Internet, but we were just stuck in the house! Anyway, after a full night, day, and another night of a blizzard, we walked out into a completely new world.
. . . I can't explain this right. You'll just have to look at the pictures below.
Let's see. . . Weekdays are slower. We're working on getting the PVC booked in the middle of the week. But Elder and Sister Vail (from the office) took us to an amazing, authentic Brazilian restaurant. Sister Couto died and went to heaven.
Friday we drove down to Providence for a church tour! I really dislike driving a spaceship through the city, down narrow alleyways and one-way streets with cars parked on both sides, with piles of snow heaped up on every corner so you have to make even WIDER turns. . . trying to find a place to unload the Spaceship was nightmare. The church tour was fun, though! Providence gets a lot of foot-traffic. We spent the night with the Providence Sisters. It was good to see Sister Hyoung again!
Guess where I got to go on Saturday???? CENTRAL FALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My home away from home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was so amazing! Jamique was getting baptized, so we brought two of our displays for the baptism. I was nearly in tears the entire time. I loved loved LOVED seeing everyone again. The Lourencos, the Frandsens, the Tanners, Alba. . . Even Elder Garrido came back for the baptism. In fact, he baptized Jamique. :) It was such a beautiful reunion. My heart was so full. He's the last one in his family to make this amazing choice. (He's related to CC and Lovely, if you remember them.)
Also, after the baptism, I was able to see Faith!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of my closest friends from Central Falls. She's the greatest. We met up and caught up and took pictures! I am soooo spoiled to be a PVC sister. I get to see everyone again! :)
I couldn't spend a ton of time there, though, because we had another baptism to attend in Worcester! (Pronounced Wuh-ster. Unless you have a Boston accent. Then it's Wuh-stuh. Don't ask me. . . ) And after all of that, we went home again. Only to have another crazy day on Sunday.
Sunday was fun. I got to see Weston 1st ward again, then we headed back to Worcester for another baptism, set up the displays, and left them there to travel to Foxboro for a recording session! That's right! We have such diversity here in New England, and President wants these videos and displays accessible to everyone! So what do we do when church videos aren't in other languages? We translate them ourselves, of course! :) I like President's attitude. Right now Sister Couto and I are inserting Chinese subtitles into all of the videos. The PVC Sisters in the past have done audio-recordings in Spanish to put the translations into the videos we have.Yesterday we went to the Megquires', where they have a professional recording studio inside their house. The Haitian Creole Elders met us there, along with a Haitian member with a beautiful, rich voice! He was able to record the translation to a couple of our videos. It was so much fun! I loved this experience! We'll be finishing Haitian with him soon, and then we're bringing over a Portuguese speaker with a great voice for MORE translations!
We made it back just in time before storm #2 hit. It's still hitting. We're red-dotted again. This time, though, we braved the storm to walk over to the office. This is ridiculous, how much snow we have. We won't be able to see stop-signs soon, if it continues at this rate.
Anyway, that's my life! Great to hear from everyone!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for being so involved with what's happening over here. I love you all!
Oh, and another shout-out. Stephen is going on his mission on Wednesday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Sister Merkley
MBM PVC Missionary
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