Still pretty cold here but according to all the locals "you ain't seen nothin'". We did had some pretty good snowfall and of course it's so cold it doesn't melt... and when it does it freezes at night and is kind of akin to a skating rink. I'm trying my hardest not to fall and break one of my osteoporosic bones. I'm a little old lady taking tiny little flat footed steps everywhere I go. Dad slipped once and went down on a knee (and once in the livingroom on a lightcord and went all the way down but we can't blame that on the ice, can we?).
Barb, in Chinook, got baptized a couple of weeks ago!! She is a great lady and we're so happy for her! AND about a week and a half ago we actually presented a first discussion, just me and Dad, to Shelley! It went really well, Dad doing almost all the talking (when I would interject I would sound like an idiot so I kept quiet) and he didn't go on and on, like he can sometimes. It was great and she agreed to a second discussion so that's.... well, it doesn't get much better than that. The Elders did the second one and she is really interested. There is also a Native American lady who wants to get baptized that has been attending Church for months. She is on her third lesson. Sometime I'll tell you about her husband, Glenn, a Gros Ventre Indian. So that's Chinook! Moving right along....
In Havre we have several investigators. Well, the Elders do. But we referred two of them. We are still meeting new people and really enjoying it. We love the detective work. Sometimes there are almost no clues but things just seem to appear out of nowhere. We call people in the phonebook, we ask at post offices (at the smaller towns) and we knock on neighbors' doors and collect information. We haven't used Facebook yet but we will.
We went to the Cardston Temple in Cardston, Alberta, Canada a couple weeks ago. The Temple is beautiful, built in... well, the building was started in 1917. Remodeled in the 90's but they kept everything just like it was originally with furniture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The weather was really nice, relatively warm... in the mid to high 30s.
It was really a memory-maker! We had Grandmommie's parents sealed together, Grandma and Grandpa sealed, Grandmommie and Grandaddy sealed and then we were each sealed to our parents. We will never forget that day!
Then we went back through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, along the Eastern border of the Waterton Glacier International Peace Park in Alberta and in the US along the Eastern border of Glacier National Park. Wow! Beautiful! Will be going to the park in the summer or maybe spring.
The Milk River: The first one you can see the river in the foreground.
The sunsets here are beautiful. I don't know why unless it's because they are so big? Big Sky Country. But they are almost always colorful. 
This is a drive we took along the Milk River, on River Road, hoping to visit a woman who lives at the end. She wasn't home but the drive was neato!
A ball of barbed wire. This is in the little town of Kremlin.
We sure miss all of you!! Thanks for the calls, texts, emails, Instagrams, etc. that you send. Our mission is almost 1/3 over. Hard to believe, isn't it?
Love, Mom and Dad/ Elder and Sister Jacobsen/ Becky and Dennie!
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