February 7, 2011

Hey Family,
This week has been totally lame!!! The huge storm that came through was really overkill. It is super funny because there is way more snow in Idaho, and everybody here knows what snow is, but every time they have to retrain their selves to drive and prepare for the snow.... it's like they have never seen it before. Needless to say because of the so called "Frightful Weather," we had to stay in our apartments for 3 days of the week. The other three days, Elder Luster and I decided to take a break from teaching, went and bought shovels, and started digging people out. It was a nice change to actually do something manual for once. Even though we were Mexican Backhoes it was awesome, it was a great opportunity to meet a lot of new people and to be able to make some return appointments.
The Branch BBQ plans are going great. We again discussed it with the branch council yesterday morning; they mostly seem to be on board. The ones that do not seem to be on board are the ones that have non member family's, it is a shame that those people are ashamed to share the gospel with those that they love. Romans 1:8 "Be not ashamed," I think that is the right scripture, I could be wrong, but anyways I need Nick Martin's cell phone number. The ward has asked me to see if I could get him to donate a couple boxes of potatoes for the BBQ. I will have to get the phone call approved, but President Collins is a pretty awesome guy... I am pretty sure he will let me. Everything else is going great. The ward is really starting to pull together and actually act like a ward. They are all working together to advertise this whole thing and let their peers and co-workers know and invite people to it. It will be on March 19th instead of the 12th, but it hopefully will be awesome. I will send you a rough draft of the plans, they are pretty good... at least we think so. Everything is going great. We are kinda still sick, but not bad enough to keep us down.  I love you all.
Elder Bair