Today is our P-Day. Elder Bagley, our director invited us to come with him in his jeep this afternoon to check out the trails near Rocky Ridge and then on to Rock Creek Hollow. We got stuck literally "up a creek with-out a paddle." We attempted to cross a snow patch off the trail to miss the huge snow drift in the middle of the trail. 10 feet across the drift we came to an instant stop. We dropped in an underground creek run off. The snow was about 10 inches deep and then the water was another 7-8 inches.
We did have cell service as we were up high on the plains. Elder Bagley called the office to someone bring up his truck with another shovel and a handy man jack. It took about a half hour for her to reach us on the dirt road. We saw her coming and as she went out of view behind a small hill, she never came up the road. Elder Bagley thought maybe she had turned to go another way. He headed down the road after her when he came upon her stuck in the middle of a snow drift that we had forgotten that we went thru about 50 miles an hour to get thru to the other side. She got bogged down in the middle of the drift, high centered. Thank heavens there was a truck up the road that came and pulled Elder Bagley's truck out. Elder Bagley then put the metal to the pedal and came thru that snow drift flying so we could use it to pull the jeep out of the mess we were in.
Elder Bagley warned us that we would begin our adventure in a red jeep and return in a brown jeep. If you look closely in the bottom left hand side of the collage you will see he predicted the end perfectly.
We attempted to go on another way, but the run off down the ruts in the road cause more havock and with a tender mercy we were able to get us both out and head on back to missionion village.
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