It was the zone's goal to have a white Christmas - baptisms! They had 8 baptisms that day so it was indeed a very white Christmas.
This is the Arpires family. The oldest son, Nicolas, is the stake executive secretary and baptized his grandmother. Another son is serving a mission in Venezuela.
To the right are Elders Egbert/UT and Crespin/El Salvador.
Now that's what you call a white Christmas!!
On Christmas Day we fed all the missionaries pulled pork sandwiches, french fries, watermelon, and each received a bag of goodies - homemade chocolate chip cookies, snickerdoodles, and brownies. Didn't seem to be any complaints... :o) Several also used our Vonage line to call home, one of two calls allowed for the missionaries per year (the other on Mother's Day).
Sisters Brown/UT and Adair/AZ, Elders Hughes/UT, Guymon/UT, Adams/TX, Crespin/El Salvador, Egbert/UT, and Auma/Peru enjoying their Christmas Day meal.
Elders Correa/Chile and Burton/CA.
Elders Gossling/GA, Nitta/CA, Perez/CA, Critchlow/UT, Bilbao/Chile, and Araya/Chile.
Elder Gossling, Sisters Adair and Brown relaxing in the living room during the afternoon.
Above, Elders Araya/Chile, Nitta/CA, and Critchlow/UT with Elder Gossling/GA in the corner of the picture. On the other side of the room: Elders Guymon/UT, Auma/Peru, Crespin/El Salvador, Egbert/UT.
A district of elders: Adams/TX, Bilbao/Chile, Perez/CA, and Araya/Chile. Bottom picture has Elder Gossling/GA helping with the computer and doing some scheduling.
We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and will have a wonderfully Happy New Year!!!
Thanks for the pictures of James and for what you did for our missionaries. James said the food was incredible and that he had a blast. His comment was it was the best pulled pork ever!!!
ReplyDeleteI love that goal of a white Christmas. A kid in our ward wanted to get baptized on Christmas, which I thought was pretty fun!
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