Well here it is Jan 4 2009, another year behind us. The holiday was quite different this year as we were not with family. We have a new family here in Atlanta, we went over to Brother and Sister Sharps home for Christmas Eve. They have a lovely home that was decorated with lots of nativity scenes. It was very nice and she was a very gracious lady. On Christmas day we opened our presents from our kids, thanks for the nice sweat suit, scriptures for dad and the wonderful photo album. You made our day.
We had breakfast with the other missionaries here strawberry waffles and blueberry pancakes with all the trimmings. Later in the afternoon we had ham sandwiches with all the fixins and watched a very touching movie called the Christmas shoes.
One of the sisters read a bulletin from home and I thought it had a very great idea. One of the sisters in her ward said that they discussed with their children how we need to keep the spirit of Christmas and they could do it by following this simple rule. The children would get the following for Christmas: Something they want, something they need, something to wear and something to read. If we would all follow those simple rules wouldn't Christmas be much simpler??
On New years eve we went over the the Hendersons, they work in the temple, they had a real southern dinner, collard greens, macaroni and cheese, deviled eggs, and lots and lots of pecans, sugared pecans, pecan pies, Cinnamon pecans and plain pecans he bought about 300 lbs and he shells them by hand. He has a little crusher then just shells them. talk about patient. Well we are doing fine, I can't believe that 4 months has passed and we are good.
Still waiting for the equipment to be replaced in
Elberton but hope it will be here this week. Moving onward ever onward.!!!!!