It is March already.

Oh My.  We have been here over a month now.  In some ways it seems like we have been here forever.  But at the same time we are still feeling "green", there is so much more to learn and do.

This is our team in the ward.  We have a set of each.  How cool is that?!!  This picture is already outdated because our District leader (on the far right) finished his mission last week and we have a new - straight out of the MTC - Elder.  

We had a little party the weekend before he went home and we had some wonderful seafood chowder that was made by the ward mission leader.  He is from Halifax and only fresh fish would do, so he UPS-ed it from the coast packed in dry ice.  We (who are not really a seafood lovers) loved it!!  Don't know if it because it was fresh or all the butter and cream.  But it was really good.

You can see the potatoes, and it also had shrimp, scallops, haddock and lobster.  With before mentioned butter and cream.  YUM!!!

Brent went snowshoeing this past P-Day.  It is starting to warm up and he wants to go when he gets some time.  Here he is clearing off the car and  out the front of the apartment.

One day when we out in one of the neighborhoods, we drove past the parking lot for Mont Bellview - we couldn't pass up the opportunity to take a little walk and so off we went (me in my skirt and all!!)  We were in the company of Fat Bikers (huge tires) X-country skiers, snowshoers, and downhill skiers.  It was a bunny hill size - by Utah standards...  but it was very busy and we walked to the top and took pictures of the lift and skiers.   It took us about 15 minutes to walk up.  What a nice interlude. 

 Look at the bikes in this pic....  notice how fat their tires are..  snow tires for bikes!  The other picture is of the runs from across the river.  Notice they aren't very long...  but they are very busy.

 Things are starting to warm up a little and we were really excited to see asphalt in the parking lot at the store the other day...  then as we were driving out we saw this pile of snow...  notice the light pole and the building in the background...  yes it is really that high.  I wish I would have either taken the car or Elder Petersen in front of it...  then you really would have been able to see the proportions.

The Bishop wants to make sure he is keeping us busy...  and he is.  We are teaching classes, going to meetings, researching names, I am in the RS presidency, Elder Petersen is a Home Teacher and SS teacher, and Soeur Petersen has 3 Visiting Teaching partners each with a different list of names.  So,  Yes we are keeping busy.

Went to Zone Conference last week.  WOW  what a spiritual boost.  We have great leaders and what a great bunch of missionaries.  We were the only SR missionaries there..  so we were surrounded by energy and youth.  Our Mission President is very loved and is a wonderful person.  There are some missionary videos that he has been a part of when he was a Stake President in Florida. I am going to see if I can add it so you can see what we are doing.

Nope---  couldn't figure out how to do it....  but you can copy and paste the link and go to the site and play it.....

 https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2013-06-002-my-work-and-my-glory?lang=eng

We are in an important work and hope we can do our part to help the people in Sherbrooke know that their Savior and Heavenly Father love them and help them to know how they can have true happiness by knowing them.

Have a great week!!!
Elder and Soeur Petersen