Christmas Day

We woke this morning to a bright sunny day. Temp. probably got up to 55. We fixed our traditional Christmas brunch for our Zone today. It was a big hit. We ate at the church, cause it is right next door. There were 18 of us. Could have never all fit in our little home. The Zone leaders, Elder Thornock and Elder Smith are amazing. They came early to help take everything next door and they set up the Relief Society room with tables and chairs and pulled in the Christmas Tree from the lobby. Everything had been prepared ahead of time except the crepes and waffles and eggs. The two sister missionaries cooked the waffles and Doug and I cooked the crepes while several elders buttered, sugared, and rolled them up. And there was three different elders cooking the scambled eggs. The Sausage gravy and biscuits was the big hit along with the crepes. They played a fun white elephant gift game, sang carols and then went on their way. Just another day in the mission field, except, phone calls to home. Yahoo!!! They are all so obedient and diligent in their callings.

Christmas Night we went to two members homes with our Zone Leaders. The first home are the top pictures. A sweet sister and her two daughters and a grand child. She is raising her grandson Manny. He and Doug hit it off with his little drum set he got for Christmas. She fed us dinner. There was such a sweet spirit at this home and we left them with a Christmas message and testimony. The other home was a little crazy. There was a single sister and her 4 little girls. They had gotten a Karyokee machine for Christmas and were rocking out all 5 of them. We just stayed for a minute and said we would come back again. We arrived home to get on the web-cam and visit with all our kids who were over at the house. The camera froze up but we visited over the phone and chatted on the computer. We love and miss you all.