Strange Weather in the Ohio Valley

For those who don't know, our home is very near the Ohio River (Near enough to enjoy but not near enough to get wet in the Spring time when the river gets much deeper). The weather here is different from anything I've ever experienced including my thirty month mission in Sweden.

It gets cold here. Frequently it's colder here than in Utah. In fact it gets down into the teens and below and it literally freezes the moisture out of the air. The picture below is of our furnace exhaust vent that comes out of the side of the house. The air coming out of the house is moist because we have a humidifier running. The other day it was so cold the moisture in the air actually froze into a little icicle.





It also doesn't snow here. It snows some but not much. What we get is "winter mix." It rains even when it is in the low thirties and then turns to ice. It's not sleet or hail. It's just little ice crystals that crackle when you walk on them.

It's all part of the new experience.

Tuesday evening we had Elders Allred and Davis over. Our mission just opened a new area very close to us and I found housing for these elders in a members home. They were assigned on Tuesday as companions and Elder Allred was made a District Leader here in our area. We were already having our missionaries over so we invited the new elders over as well. Elder Davis is from Buena Park, California and his dad is an active LAPD Detective (Greg Davis). Elder Davis just arrived on his mission so we wanted him to feel welcome.

While we were having dinner, the Assistants to the Mission President called Elders Allred and Davis (they all have cell phones). All three of them (Elders Wright, Call and Peay) were out running errands and had to drop off a notebook for Elder Davis so I took the phone and asked if they had eaten. They hadn't so we invited them too. We fed seven elders sort of in shifts and really enjoyed their company. They are all so dedicated they wouldn't stay very long. They all had work to do and went off to do it. We felt really good about the whole evening.