Missionary Moments #19, January 11, 2015

This has been an interesting week of weather for us.  Nothing we haven't been able to handle but certainly different than what we are used to.  We had a couple of days of snowfall, temperatures below zero, and rivers and lakes frozen over.  Scott and I decided to drive around locally yesterday because of the roads and we went up to the lake that we found our first month here in Concord.  We also drove to a little town called Franklin where the Bishop lives and a number of other people in our ward.  Beautiful areas and definitely typical New Hampshire small towns.  We saw a group of tents out on the frozen lake which appeared to be people ice fishing.  I don't get it, but catching fish has never had any appeal to me.  In the afternoon we saw the movie Unbroken.  This week we had to give an estimate of our project completion to our supervisor for record preservation.  I estimated we would finish up Rockingham County in the middle of May.  At that time we will begin to work on the Hillsborough County probate files.  The head of the archives said that Nashua and Manchester are in that county and they are the two largest cities in the state.  It looks like we may be doing that until our mission ends next year.  We are about 200 probate files away from completing 5,000 of the packets.  We are going to make that a celebration for sure!  I will be going back to the doctor next week just to finish up from the gall bladder surgery.  We got our hospital bill and the anesthesiologist bill this week. Very thankful for insurance!  Hope everyone is doing well!  Keep an eye on the little ones.  The flu going around out here is really hard on children and we have heard of a number of deaths.  Stay healthy and be warm.