We might just be preparing the people for future missionaries.

Just a short email from Elder Jake but we are so grateful to know where he is and what he's up to. He also sent these pics, which made our day!!!

The view from Jake's front window. Brrrrrrr!!!!!

Hi all,

Well I'm finally able to email. Mondays are my P-Days. Right now I am serving in High River. It's about an hour south of Calgary. It has been freezing. Yesterday it was -29 degrees Celsius. We went snow plowing. Serving in this area will be a little different than normal. There was a bad flood here back in the summer last year. Many homes were flooded. So instead of going out and looking for investigators, our main focus will be giving service. The past two days we have been handing our fliers talking about our service and shoveling snow. My companion is Elder Stewart and we are also sharing the area with another set of elders, Elder Madsen and Elder Roper. I haven't gotten a coat or boots yet but I have managed. A lady from the ward loaned me a coat until I can get one myself. The ward members are really nice. We have been fed really well so far. We have dinner appointments all this week too. The food is good. Really no different than Back home. Except no Mexican. We have a car. It's a Subaru Impreza. The roads are pretty icey but we manage. The town is small. We live with a member named Brother Baker. He is really nice. he lives on a farm. He has somewhere around 79 Acres. It's super flat here too. We can see the mountains of British Columbia from here. That's about the only thing that sticks up from the horizon.

Other than that not much has been going on. Hopefully we get some calls from people wanting our service. We are planning on helping people out with cleaning up after the flood. Even though it was seven months ago, some people are still not in their homes. Hopefully the service will lead to some lessons and baptisms but there is no way to know for sure. We might just be preparing the people for future missionaries.

Well that's about it. I'll try to write some written letters too. Glad to know all is going well back home. Hope to hear from you soon.

Elder Anderson