This week was pretty fantastic and I can't wait to tell you all about it!! Here's my Top 5 for this week!

1. ZONE CONFERENCE: This week we had a special "New Years" Zone conference that was so fun! First we had trainings from the AP's and Pres. and Sis. Jensen and then we had lunch (lasagna, salad, breadsticks, and cookies my favorite) and then each District did a skit. We did the story of Lehi and his family sailing to the promised land but we added Iowa jokes and "tiwihona" (making fun of the tiwi boxes we have in our cars that tracks our driving) Most of the skits were hilarious!!! So fun!! Then we watched Ephraims Rescue. Oh my lanta such an amazing movie!!! If you haven't seen it, watch it!

2.MIGRAINE: So after Zone Conference I had this massive migraine so went to sleep and no joke 24 hours later I woke up. I only woke up once during that do eat some soup. It was awful! I went to bed Tues evening and woke up Thurs morning! Not fun. I haven't had a migraine that bad in a long time!!!

3. PUPPIES: Oh my lanta so the rule of not being able to hold kids has me so deprived that I go crazy over ever cat and dog that I see. Its ridiculous! But we were visiting a less active couple the other day and their chow chow and their corgi had puppies! And they were less than a week old and still had closed eyes and we got to hold them!! I died!!! One of then was so chubby! You pet him and it was just layers of fat rolls and Ahhhhhh baby animals are the best!!! Sooooo cute!!!

4. COLD: So its been pretty cold here lately, and when I say cold I mean -10 degrees with a windchill of -30 degrees. I have never felt anything like it before. I can't even describe it, no matter how many layers you have on the cold just goes right through you and it everything goes numb and hurts and oh my lanta I will never complain about the cold in Utah again!! We have no idea what cold is!!!! Yesterday on the way to church I was eating a yogurt in the car and as I was eating it the edges started to freeze! My yogurt was freezing as I was eating it!!! I leave my water bottle in the car for half and hour and its frozen! What is this madness???? ITS IOWA!!!!

5. INVESTIGATOR UPDATE: We had a fantastic member present with Jose in the Dairy Queen the other night! The member was perfect! He answered questions perfectly and addressed concerns that we didn't even tell him that Jose had! The Spirit was so strong! Then Rafael is doing great! We met with him and he invited us to his church to see how corrupt it is! So funny! We also taught him the Restoration and we said it makes so much sense and why doesn't everyone know about this and we were like Rafael! That's why were here!! They are both awesome!! We just need to get them to church!! Its sad cause the bad weather here scares everyone away:( but we press forward!

That was my week! Can't wait to here from ya'll and tell you about next weeks adventures!!! As always. LOVE AND MISS YOU!!!!!! xoxox Hermana Rice

PS I can't send pics this week cause I forgot my cord to plug into the computer. Sorry!