Bomb Cyclone

Hey everybody,

The weather service comes up with the most unique names. I found that this last week I survived a "bomb cyclone." Sounds a little dramatic doesn't it? The storm hit on Thursday, and it really wasn't that bad. We got 13.4 inches of snow. It would've been bad driving, but we were walking. Snowballs and an infinite amount of space to do snow angels was what it looked like to us.

Here's a crazy story:

We dressed well, and actually had quite a bit of fun walking to an appointment. On our way back from the appointment, we discovered that we had locked ourselves out of our apartment. Both of us had forgotten our key. It was 5:30, and the office hours are Tuesday and Thursday from 9AM-5PM. They wouldn't be able to let us in until Tuesday or until they responded to an emergency lockout message we sent them. We would've been charged a $35 fee to have someone come outside office hours. Anyway, we called the zone leaders and got permission to stay with some nearby Elders while we waited for the management to respond to our request to be let back in. The next morning, I prayed that the Lord would let me know what more I could do to help us get let back into our apartment. We were asked to help shovel out our church sidewalks in the morning. After we were done helping shovel the sidewalks around our church building, we headed back to the other Elders' apartment. I received an impression while standing on the T that if the trash bins were outside our apartment, then maybe the maintenance man was present and could let us in. As we walked by, the recycling bins were out. I told Elder Blotter we should check to see if anyone was there and the maintenance man was there. Despite the logic that he shouldn't be there during non-office hours, he was. He let us in, and he didn't charge us the $35 fee. I believe that I asked what the Lord wanted me to ask in my morning prayer, and thus was led by the spirit to have us let back into our apartment. We celebrated by having Dominoes delivered to us with the other Elders. (One of them had a gift card from Christmas that he shared with us.)

It was difficult being sick and being stuck inside (once we got inside) for a while. We did have a good weekly planning session, go to the appointments we were able to, and contact lots of people via phone. I found comfort in a verse from D&C 124:

"49 Verily, verily, I say unto you, that when I give a commandment to any of the sons of men to do a work unto my name, and those sons of men go with all their might and with all they have to perform that work, and cease not their diligence, and their enemies come upon them and hinder them from performing that work, behold, it behooveth me to require that work no more at the hands of those sons of men, but to accept of their offerings."

I know that even though, we weren't able to go out and talk to people like normal, the Lord accepted our small offering of missionary effort when the weather is ridiculous.


Love,
Elder Rogers