Today we had a big storm here in Montreal. We picked up Sister Conway because her hubby was sick and we drove to the office. There was such a huge snow drift blocking the driveway that we couldn't get in. We had to drive around several blocks and drive into the lot through an alley. The weather just got worse and worse. After the missionaries finished their zone study and had lunch they got ready to go home. Most of them took the metro because of the weather, but those that had cars were stuck. Every single car was stuck in the parking lot. It took the missionaries and Elder Arhets about 40 minutes to clear out enough snow to get those few cars out. John phoned upstairs and told me to come on down with Sister Conway that we were leaving. We did go down right away after closing down the office, but by then he had to leave because of the cars behind him needing to go. He got stuck several times just going around a few blocks trying to get back to the office. Meanwhile we were waiting in snow that was quite deep. After we got in the car it was stuck again. The Elders had to give us a push. We started driving home only to find many streets closed down because of the snow. We got stuck again and had to wait quite a while until a little snow plow came and got rid of the snow in front of us. Even then the car wouldn't budge. It took two people pushing the car and John accelerating to get it to finally move. We got stuck several times more and people kindly would come and shovel out snow in front of the car and then push the car. It took us about 50 minutes to drive 1 mile to our apt. All throughout the streets we saw buses and cars that were stuck and everywhere we looked there were people helping each other out. We were sure glad to get home.
The previous day was boxing day in Canada. It originally began in England when the wealthy people would box up their old clothes, things, and food and give them to the poor. This tradition was continued in Canada and now it is a day of sales in all of the stores. It is like American black friday on steroids. We went to a huge underground mall with the Howards. We ate lunch and then tried to shop, but it was wall to wall people in the stores and in the mall itself. It was just crazy. We decided to go home and play games instead. In the center of one of the wings was this beautiful huge Christmas tree.
Christmas day was quiet for us. We did go out and have lunch with several of the senior couples. We ate at Miami Deli. It was nice to go out and visit with good people. The rest of the day we spent Skyping with our kids and grandkids. That was the best part of the day. We sure do miss them a lot, but know that we are where we should be, doing the work of the Lord.
I ordered a Greek plate, but was disappointed with the taste. The chicken-k-bob was dry and not very tasty. The salad and rice were good, but that's salad and rice. Can't go to wrong there. The huge potato chunks on the left weren't too tasty either. Oh well, one of those things. The important thing was that we could think of the Savior on this special day and that we could remember His great gift to us and to all mankind
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