One of our favorite things to be involved with here in the Maritimes, is attending FHE with these fine people every Monday evening. Below you can see, Sister Brown,(Left), Brother and Sister Green (centre and right)The Greens work in the Mission Office with us.
We meet at the home of Brother and Sister Nieforth, below, (centre and right), and some evenings, Bill Green brings his guitar, and we all sing together. It is a lot of fun! The Green's regularly go to Senior Nursing homes and entertain the Seniors there. They are well known for their many hours of service.
Below, is Sister Harding and Greta, another fine member of our Dartmouth ward.
This is Brother and Sister Morrison, more wonderful Dartmouth ward members. Everyone has been so kind and welcoming to us, we feel like these people will be life long friends!
Another one of the highlights of our mission, is our District Meetings, Wednesdays from 10:00-12:00. This is our current District, going left to right, Elder Harding, Elder Henderson (DL), behind him is Elder McNabb , with Elder Densley tossing an apple in the air for good luck, next to Henderson, is Elder Corbett, Elder Ashby, (out for only 4 weeks), Elder Woodbury, Elder Johnonson (leaves in 2 weeks), Sister Howell and Sister Turner (our Sister Training Leaders ) and Sister Brown, who helps us in the office. What a happy young group of dedicated young people~
This past week, we had Christmas Zone Conferences, and that was so much fun! We got to travel to New Brunswick with the Leavitts, stayed overnight, then attended the NB zones, watched Meet the Mormons" with the group, had a turkey dinner served by the Moncton Ward RS --- thank you! Then we had a Talent Show -- everyone is highly encouraged to participate, and so the office staff all went over to the Mission Home and pre-recorded two songs with the Leavitts --"Isa by" and "Some Shockin' Good". It was hilarious! Elder Harding was handed a brass sculpture of a lobster,, about 14 inches long, and he stood in the back, underbeknown to the rest of us, and bounced the old lobster merrily up and down in time to the music -- we did not realize this until we played it back! What a fun guy! We also contributed to the Talent show by doing a couple of other numbers, as it could not get any worse than what we had already done --- Elder Harding dressed up in old coveralls and told two Southern stories, reminscient of his days as a Missionary in Florida, and I recicted, "The Touch of the Masters Hand", with Elder Waldie playing the violin part way through. We had a blast watching the wide variety of Talents the missionaries came out with --- throat whistling, original piano songs, quirky dance and song routines, juggling, and so on. It was great!
The best part,of course, is when "Santa" comes !
We all got to have our picture with "Santa" --- Elder Jason, a french speaking Elder from Qaudalope, really really wanted to be Santa this year --- so here he is , in all of his glory! He came in on a trolly that you stack church chairs on, pulled along by two Elders --- "Santa" explained that he had spent the summer in the Caribbean last year, so his skin was nicely "tanned" --- many of the Elders were so happy to see Santa, they ran and jumped right onto his lap -- Santa was a very good sport, and said to several of them, "Oh my son, it looks like you have been eating a lot this past year!!"
We all got to have our picture with "Santa" --- Elder Jason, a french speaking Elder from Qaudalope, really really wanted to be Santa this year --- so here he is , in all of his glory! He came in on a trolly that you stack church chairs on, pulled along by two Elders --- "Santa" explained that he had spent the summer in the Caribbean last year, so his skin was nicely "tanned" --- many of the Elders were so happy to see Santa, they ran and jumped right onto his lap -- Santa was a very good sport, and said to several of them, "Oh my son, it looks like you have been eating a lot this past year!!"
We drove back to Nova Scotia and did it all over again on Wednesday, then the Leavitts flew to NFLD and repeated the process on Friday! So we Seniors are now a bit tired out, but a good kind of Tired!
Another highlight of our week, was Elder Katcher, of the 70, came and spent 3 days in our mission a week ago. We were able to hear him speak several times and have supper with many of the senior couples at the Mission Home with Elder Katcher. These are some of our "December Blessings", for which we are grateful.
We feel the Love of the Savior, and are grateful for this opportunity to serve Him.
May God watch over and Bless all of you, in all the good work that you do in your own circle of influence.
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