Oh for heavens sake!!!! Late again. I simply don't know how Sunday slips away from us so easily. Well, wait a minute......we were traveling on Sunday and we got home really late (at least LATE for us senior missionaries)! That explains yet another LATE entry from last week. SO....here we go with a little catch up:
After our return from visiting family last week on the west coast (for Spencer's Priesthood Ordination) it was just about time for Christmas!!! On December 24th the Zone Leaders and Spanish Elders who lived in an apartment around the corner from our apartment were scheduled to move to a different apartment.....across the parking lot from us. It was all hands on deck to help them move. Well, Wayne and I at least cheered them on for the move. They actually did the work.
Oh wait a minute.....Wayne did carry ONE box so he could say he helped!
We truly have felt loved and blessed with receiving so many Christmas Cards. Makes us feel like we are at our home in Maryland!
A real surprise was receiving this handmade, beautiful CHEROKEE INDIAN DREAMCATCHER. We had met Kristina in Kentucky at one of the Cherokee Museum Shops. She is 100% Cherokee. We struck up a friendship with her. I told her I would LOVE to have a dreamcatcher. Low and behold, in the mail this week we received this!!! LOVE IT!!
And the sweet note that she included with the Dreamcatcher. We will be stopping to visit her again when we are up that way.
I finished Elder Robison's afghan!!! His was a larger one because he is a big boy. He wanted it about 4 1/2 feet wide by 7 feet tall. It was every bit that size when I was finished! I know because I measured it. I think he really LOVED IT!!!
One of the Christmas gifts Wayne got for Christmas was a lego-type kit of the Nauvoo Temple. He had so much fun putting it together on Christmas Day.
On Sunday we attended the Sharon Ward in the Charlotte South Stake where Paul and Danette Garrett gave their 'missionary farewell talks'. They leave this week for the MTC and then on to the Philippines where they were serve as the Area Mental Health Advisor and Assistant.
Wayne and I splurged a bit and ordered a set of Matryoshka Dolls from Russia. They have 8 different temples on 8 dolls. We ordered it from a Russian shop we found while visiting Boone, N.C. back in October. We LOVE them. They turned out great.
We got a phone call from one of the GA Mission Presidents whose son was sick. They were worried about him and we felt like we needed to come back down to Peachtree City a day early so we could make a house-call on him. Otherwise, we would have stayed in Charlotte until Monday morning and would have driven back then. Hence, the lateness in getting back to our apartment on Sunday night. That meant we were home for Monday. Elder's Robison and Robinson called and came by our apartment about dinner time. Elder Robison had thrown his back out playing a 'chair soccer' game during Preparation Day activities!!! I think we should do away with P-Days because there are so many injuries from those activities!!! I made dinner for them and Elder Robison rested in our recliner to see if his back would feel better. While talking to the Elders we discovered that the 29th was Elder Robinson's BIRTHDAY (21st)!!! SO.....we had to celebrate a little with them and have a piece of fruit cake and candle for him. And, of course, sing Happy Birthday to him.
We LOVE our mission. And now we prepare for the brining in of a NEW YEAR this week. With a visit from B.P and Daphne!! Should be fun. Let's hope us old senior missionaries can keep up with it all!!!!
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