Christmas Day

 We decided to go out and visit the missionaries for Christmas this year, taking a page out of Elder Valencia's playbook from last year. He had so much fun putting on a santa hat and delivering supplies that we decided to try it. He was right. It was lots of fun. 

I had made brownies several days before and packaged them up to give out. We loaded the truck with their requested supplies and packages that had arrived since zone conference and headed out. We would put on our Santa hats and carol them. Often the missionaries would join with us. Jack had a special message to share with them as well.

At lunch time we met up with the Ivisan district and took them out to lunch at Pizza Hut. We ordered 6 large pizzas and had just enough left over to deliver to the sisters who were waiting for us to drop off their supplies. They were grateful for the food as their cupboards and fridge was bare.

The Ivisan District plus us in our Santa hats


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Fjordlands

Image
 We spent the day cruising through Fjordland National Parks. It's a series of fjords accessible mainly by the sea. The scenery was gorgeous. They get a lot of rainful here and today was not an exception. It made the many waterfalls so much more impressive. We were outside on the deck for a bit, but it was chilly so we came inside to watch the scenery go by. We managed to see some penguins from the distance and an albatross up close. Didn't get pictures of any animals. Just to prove that it is us here, even with our colds.
Read more

Noumea, New Caledonia

Image
 This small group of islands in Micronesia were discovered by the French. It helped me realize how bad my French still is. I had a few short conversations with people, but between my deaf ear on the right side and my lack of memory, the conversations were very brief. The water here is beautiful blue. Approaching the island, there were some cool coral reefs that caused the water to do some weird beach waves in the middle of the ocean. It was pretty awesome to watch the water break and roll in over the water. The pictures don't do it justice.  The port was a protected cove with lots of hills. We walked uphill through the Plaza de Pais. From the viewpoint, we got a great view of the harbor and the area behind us. They also had a statue of a woman praising God at the viewpoint.  Jack had to do a Touchdown Jesus pose with the Hail Mary. We also visited the Catholic Church, or as Jack called it, the Church of Barry Manilow. The priest's picture did look amazingly like him. Love...
Read more

Auckland Temple

Image
 On our "shortcut" home, we are seeing many temples. The first stop on our temple trip is Auckland. Jack and I went Friday night to do some initiatory and catch a session. We then went Saturday night with former Tacloban Missionaries. Only Sister Nau made it. We had hoped to see former Elder Fruean, Sister Lolohea and Sister Fue, who had recently gotten married.
Read more