Our Last District Meeting in Iceland

Yesterday we were going to go to Reykjavik to for YSA's and to help individuals with their family history. The only problem - it started snowing during the night and continued all day. Now I know all of you who have suffered the worst winter ever are just laughing at us but we felt bad because now that we are leaving we are getting more requests for help and we have so few days left to get everything done. This is probably our last snow fall in Iceland and it is definitely the worst snow fall we have experienced in Iceland. We have had many where our walks have been knee deep but this one ended up waist deep. Eileen started digging out in the morning when it wasn't too bad only to have it fill in. Then in the evening our landlord dug us out and when we woke this morning it was even deeper.

This morning we were to go to Reykjavik for District Meeting and our two elders came over to dig us out. When they finished I offered them a ride back to their apartment to get ready as we were running short on time. That was a good decision or we would have been very late to the meeting. When we got to the car we discovered the street was impassable. The elders had to be human snow plows and dig our street out. About 45 minutes later I was back at the beginning of our street and left the car and walked back to our apartment. We got to our meeting on time as the highways were fine. We had a great district meeting with our last training by the Koyle's. They were helping the Elders with teaching about being an eternal families.

When we left to come home the car had a terrible shake. I couldn't find anything wrong so I went to the dealer. He had obviously heard the problem before as he told me to pull up to the service door. He came out with a high pressure hot water hose and after spraying the front tires for 10 minutes he said we were ready to go and everything was fine. When we got home the street was still impassable so we left the car at the entrance to our street and walked home. I check a couple of more times but the street has very deep ruts from the big 4 wheel drive vehicles that are so prevalent here and there is no way for my little car to make it through those. I talked to some locals and they said they are very upset with the city as they have the equipment to clean the streets but not the money to run them. I sure am glad this has been an unusual winter with very little snow. Good news is it is going to start raining next week and supposed to be lots of it so we should be through with the snow soon.