Let the snow fall
When it blizzards
We will stand tall
Face it all together
At snowfall
At snowfall
Snowfall is where we start
A thousand miles and poles apart
Where wards collide and days are dark
You may have my license, you can take my address
But you’ll never have my heart
Let the snow fall
When it blizzards
We will stand tall
Face it all together
At snowfall

It’s comin’ down!

This is gonna be a shorter one, resetting my posting schedule as it were. Yesterday morning I got up early to help clean the chapel. Afterwards I wandered the grounds and amused myself by unblocking a rain gutter, letting about a hundred feet worth of backed up gutter get flushed down in one go.

Also found a little trail through the woods just behind our chapel. The light rain was a perfect touch.

Later that afternoon I helped someone move a few things out of their storage unit and haul it off to the dump. We had carte blanche permission to take whatever we wanted before hauling it away. There were a few computers there, but I didn’t feel like harvesting 1GB sticks of RAM. The big payoff was getting to toss all the stuff out of the back of the truck into the trough at the dump.

Today we had a fantastic lineup for testimony meeting. Nearly everyone who spoke talked about their challenges relating to one form of mental illness or another. I counted:

• Bipolar disorder
• Anxiety, OCD
• Borderline personality disorder
• Depression
• ADHD

Three speakers talked about how their conditions forced them to return home early from their missions, a fourth described flunking out of BYU. (She later returned to graduate in cybersecurity, and now works at Microsoft. Actually gave a great talk the other week, incorporating some fun war stories from cyber-CTFs back in the day.)

Great quote from one of the speakers: Comparison is the thief of joy.

After church we went home teaching. My roommate was recently put as my new companion; both our respective companions had left the ward. When they put us together they gave us three names, and I thought that was our new assignment. But no, neither of us were relieved of our prior assignments. So depending on how you count it, we now home teach ten people. My roommate, being all fired-up recent-convert-style, is having a blast. We’ll see how it all plays out. But we did get to admire our home teachee’s penny-floor.

This evening we had a movie/game night. Which turned into just game night, didn’t have time to watch The Best Two Years before everyone left early, to stay ahead of the snow. I guess it gets really icy here, and they don’t have the infrastructure of a state like Utah to keep the roads clear. We’ll see if I end up going in tomorrow.

Chow now.