The time a blizzard hit DC!

This week has been a good week! I will try not to drag too much with the pre day snow storm, but there was some fun things that happened!

On Tuesday we did some family history to find some names to do sealings on Wednesday. While there one of the Sister Training Leaders came in and told us that we would be actually be doing an endowment session instead. We were a tad bummed, but I already had a name I could do for it anyways. Sister Kucharek was even more bummed because all she found was names to do sealings for. BUT as she was looking through all of her names she found one girl that needed an endowment! That was so neat with all the names she found that day, she was able to have one to do the following day! Then we went to Fredrick to teach Elisa the Word of Wisdom by playing memory. All the kids loved it! That was a lot of fun!

Wednesday was full of going to the temple, a meeting, and ASL class that night! The temple was really nice and it is always great to get all the sisters together at the temple. The meeting was good. It was a lot of good reminders how we can be better missionaries and rely on the spirit. It was a general broadcast for ALL the missionaries across the world. We were all watching it (besides a few missions who were asleep and would be watching it the next morning). Apparently something like this has not happened in over a decade. On the way out to the ASL class that night we saw it starting to snow! We were freaking out not knowing if we would be ok to go to church because President Cooke said that when it start to flurry, get inside because it will all come down! But, we decided to go to church anyways because we were teaching the class. We ended up making it ok coming back home and all was well!

Thursday night was one of the worst traffic experience of my life!!! It was so frustrating! After visiting Charo (who lives just barely in DC) we went on our way home. Then we had a thought that we might want to get a snow shovel and a brush to help un-bury our car when it snowed. So we did a bit loop back the other way to go to Walmart. After we got our brush/ ice scrapper and feeling of shock that Walmart does not sell snow shovels, we went on our way back home! Then we had another thought because traffic was so HORRIBLE, we should wait it out and eat at Panera Bread. Plus, we were already planing to be there for a deaf meet up. So we turned around again! We spotted Panera, the next challenge was to find parking! We of course missed our turn and had to do another loop around. This was near impossible because we needed to make a left turn with cars constantly being in the way of the intersection. After an 1 hour of trying to find the parking garage... We gave up and went home! This whole experience took 2 hours in a .5 mile distance! It was insane!

Our first real snow day started on Friday! We were not allowed to leave our apartments after 12pm. With all of our studies, we never left the apartment! haha. The best part of my day was playing Never Have I Ever with our roommates and eating pizza together. We NEVER get to eat dinner with all of us. It was a lot of fun to be all together.

On Saturday we went outside for an adventure to play in the snow. There was a HUGE mountain of snow in the parking lot of our apartment. We climbed up it and slid down. That was a ton of fun! We then uncovered our car from the snow. WOW! Our car was COVERED in snow. That was so much fun uncovering it. The snow was up to my knees, but while uncovering the car it went up to my thigh! Being in the snow made me so happy! 

That night all 8 of us sisters went up to the Fowler's for dinner! Elder and Sister Fowler are over the visitor center. It was so much fun being over at their apartment. Elder Fowler kept trying to get us to eat all the food and all the sister missionaries  kept saying I that needed to eat the most! haha. They are trying to get me to gain weight I guess! haha. After dinner we all sat in circle and talked about what we studied that morning. That was really nice to hear what people learned that day from their studies. It was really spiritual. 

On Sunday President Cooke wanted all the missionaries to find a way to have the sacrament. So all 8 of us sisters plus 5 more who live down the streets got to have the sacrament at Elder and Sister Fowler's apartment. Elder Fowler was brave and drove to get the other 5 sisters to bring them there. That sacrament meeting was really nice and I felt the spirit while Elder Fowler blessed the sacrament. It was a tender moment. Something to know about Elder Fowler... He used to be a 70! So he has worked closely with the 12 apostles and the 1st presidency. He had us take the sacrament the same way they do. They wait until everyone has the bread or water then they eat/drink together. That was neat to do! After our formal sacrament meeting Sister and Elder Fowler told story after story about their lives and their family. It was really fun to hear all of their stories!

Afterwards we went and took roommate pictures in the snow! Sister Carter was so kind to take pictures for us! It was a ton of fun! That night we played a card game called 500. It was a fun way to end the night!

As of right now we are not allowed to leave our apartment until 3. We can do all of our shopping from 3-6. Then we must look for service around our apartment. I think we are going to try to find a way to shovel people's cars out for them. Should be lots of fun doing that together!

I hope you all are doing great!!! I love you all!

Yours Truly,

Sister Parker

Guess what?!?!? Call outs are this Sat!!! It will be interesting to see if I get transferred or not!!! I'll be able to tell you next week what happens!!!