hello!
this last week has been interesting, i found out what freezing rain is and how ice/snow/giant trees aren't the best combo. "snowpocalips" or "snowmagedon" as our bishop liked to call it came and went this last week, it was pretty crazy, it snowed probably about a foot and had freezing rain and then more snow. all of that made issaquah lose power for about 2 days and look like world war 3 just happened. trees were falling everywhere and the town didnt even look the same. it was fun though!
our apartment didnt have power so we went and slept with the kenyon family out in the tiger mountain ward, they had a generator to power their house so we stayed out there with another companionship. it was really fun but weird when we stoped by our apartment a day or so later we were inside and the temperature was 53 inside our apartment! its was a pretty crazy week, but i have never been so gratefull for power and for things to finally get back to normal. elder aiken and i decided we would have made terrible pioneers after this last week.
this sunday we had the castro family at church, they are a family of 5 that we have been working with and they are all on date for feb 11th! the dad figure wasnt able to come because he had to make up work but other than that we had 4 members of the family there and they loved it! we had such a neat miracle with them on friday when the power was out. we were not even sure if we were going to teach them or not because of the snow and no power, their fellowship was out of town but we decided to stop by anyway to see of we could teach them. somehow the power came on like an hour before we decided to go teach them. we had planned to watch the restoration dvd with them, but that wasnt going to work because they didnt have power a few hours before, but somehow the power was on for just long enough for us to go over watch the dvd with them put sandras boyfriend on date and then leave. right after we left the power to all of issaquah shut off again! it was a miracle that we were able to teach them and help them progress in the gospel that night.
vickie who is on date for feb 4th is still doing pretty well. she is currently "mad" at us because no one from the congregation checked up on her during the storm, which people tried. but it will all get worked out, as far as we know she is still doing great with the word of wisdom and she may have gotten anti-ed by her family but i know god wants this sister baptized so i know none of this will matter.
its been a good week though i have learned so much! i cant wait for the snow to leave and for life to get back to normal. bit i hope you all have a great week!
love you
elder berry
