Trip to the Top of the Mountain!

Aaahh! I haven't posted in about a month! Sorry guys! -Carrie

(e-mail from 8/1/11)

Well, I hope you all had a wonderful week! mine was good the weekend was exciting! we had exchanges this week so that was fun. I stayed here in Bennington so I really didn't know where I was going, but we had a GPS so that was good. It was really fun I got to work with Sister Stacy and got to know here a little bit, we had a good time. then the craziness started it all starts out that we got a referral and we had set up an appointment to meet with him. he lives far away so we left with plenty of time to make it there and we typed in his address in our handy dandy GPS. well we got going and we run into the first problem, the GPS wanted us to go on this toll road, it was frustrating because the avoidance for the toll roads was on! I guess that the GPS did'nt realize that the road it wanted us to go on was a toll road. so we tried to press the detour button but it would just take us up the highway and then make us turn around and go back to the toll road. so now we are getting even more frustrated and then we remembered that someone had told us that it was right up the road from there house so we put there address in and when from there. so we got to the going the right way and then we put our referral's address and it told us to turn on to this dirt road. it started out ok but then the houses started to disappear and the started to get really rocky, I mean really rocky. you could see where the water had washed out parts of the road. I was freaking out, where was this GPS taking us! I figured this road had to turn into a real road sometime. but as we kept going it just got worse. we finally had to get out an figure out how we were going to get out of this pickle! and as we are standing out side the car. about six 4-wheelers drive up and I ask them, "dose this ever turn into a real road?" on of them said, "no, this is a 4-wheeler trail, you need to turn around and go back down, I am surprised that you got this far. most people turn around way back there when they bottom out!" apparently we were not the only ones to be lead astray by the GPS! so we turned around and made our decent back down the rocky road, very slowly! so we finally got out of that awful road and then we still didnt know where to go. the guy in the 4-wheeler told us to turn right so thats what we did. (oh yeah all the while we had no cell phone service!) we drive and drive until the road we were one turns into another dirt road and then we keep going and once again the road looks like its turning into a rocky road so we pulled over and walked up the road a bit just to see if it gets better or worse and then here comes another 4-wheeler and he told us, "oh, you dont want to go up this way. you would never make it!" but he was nice and actually knew the person we were looking for so he pointed us in the right direction and we finally made it to this guys house! He was really nice. he is an older man who lives up in the middle nowhere. he really likes horses and we asked him how he got in contact with the church. it was pretty cool because he told us that his wife passes away about a year and a half ago and so he was going through some of here old stuff and he found a book of Mormon. he started reading it and found a number if he would like to learn more! he called it and he has been talking to temple square sisters for like 2 weeks. we are super excited to start teaching him! so that was our crazy adventure for this week! I hope all of you have an awesome week! --Sister Cox