Snow, snow and well... more snow

Wow! I have never seen (or shoveled) so much snow in my entire life. The first day that I got here they told me that it had warmed up for me and that it might get above freezing sometime during the day! That's not what I call warming up. Especially for this South Carolina boy! Almost every time I call home it has been the same thing "It's a really nice day here it got up to about 70 today. " While I am saying "Well it is snowing again, they say it might get above freezing later on this week."

I'm getting used to it though. A lot of the time you are walking over a couple of inches of hard packed snow/ice. I have learned to do the kind of shuffle walking technique that the Czech people have perfected. It's actually kind of fun sometimes! I think I have unofficially become the new Majak snow shoveler. I stopped counting how many times that I had shoveled the parking lot and sidewalk when I got to three in just one day. Well I shoveled the parking lot once and the sidewalks three times, but you get the idea.

Last Saturday the snow turned out to be a great activity for the youth group. We spent a couple of hours out in the snow. It was tons of fun! All the missionary families came and brought there kids too. We played games and had snow ball fights and just played around in the snow. We took a few breaks and came in and warmed up with hot chocolate and coffee in the coffee shop. My favorite part was playing tackle football in snow that was more than a foot deep (Pictured above). It made it hard to run, but that was half the fun. The other half was that some of them don't know all the rules and they try to do things like throw the ball on a kick off return, tackle receivers way before the ball is even thrown, or set picks for the other receiver. We let most of those things slide and it made it all the more fun!

I am really enjoying getting to know the kids in the youth group and the ones that come to the coffee shop regularly. About half the kids in the youth group aren't Christians. That means that not only do I have the opportunity to disciple some of the new Christian guys, but I can help them bring their friends to Christ! What an exciting opportunity. God is really working in miraculous ways.