December10,2023

 Every week brings new adventures!  More snow this week which we love!  Alls beautiful again! We started Christmas partying with the senior missionary dinner Friday. The president was the host but we host the institute where it was held so we worked our tails off setting up and making rolls. We did have a good time! First time to meet some of the seniors because some went straight to assignment and can only come here flying. A couple from Fairbanks and one from Whitehorse Canada. We had crab cooked by our  pres smith. And lots of good food and fun gift game!  After a lot left but a few off us stayed and visited until our Whitehorse missionaries had to leave for the airport for a flight!  We had a great visit and laughed a lot!

We taught seminary Wednesday.  We went to the temple. We judged the gingerbread houses at FHE. We made aunt Shirleen’s desert for institute(everyone always loves that!  I made raspberry jam again for that and roll for party!  We’ve been getting prepped for our service activity tomorrow night for all YSAs. We are making quilts for the Fischer House on base.  We also went and volunteered at the USO on base helping fill bags for the single soldiers!  3000 of them!  Our military missionaries let us help them!!

We have had our tender mercies just about every day!  One this week was Isaac Kingsley showed to institute! He is someone Jordan Hirschi told us about and we left 2 invitations at his place and he came!  We were sooo excited! He was one of Jordan young men in his ward!  Also I have been trying to find quilting frames and all the stuff to make these quilts and a sister gave me hers to use but she had never used them!! Her husband bought them at an auction for her.  There were pieces missing and I was trying to still be able to use them. I was at Joann’s h getting fabric and as I pulled in there I saw good will across the street and thought I should go in there.  There is one closer to our house and I’ve been in that one!  Anyway as I left I turned the other way and then turned around and went back to goodwill!  Gary was home working on other stuff!  Anyway I went in the store and walked down one isle and tapped together were these three pieces of wood to the quilting frames!  Like no one would have even known what they were!  So can use them with the other three I’ve collected to out on quilts.  We also ordered Pizza and root beer from this famous place so hopefully we have a great turnout!! And get lots of quilts made!!  The young missionaries are going to help me organize!!

Yesterday besides putting institute back together and getting quilt stuff readier we went with Kuerths and Newmans to Palmer for lunch and to the Nativity display at our church up there!  The display was so be amazing in every room and so beautiful we felt reverent!! We saw sister Hogan too. It was stormy and the roads scarey but it was worth it for sure. We came back to a Christmas music program at Breton building which was nice.

Today we had an especially good sacrament meeting! The wives of stake presidency spoke!! Our missionaries sang! It was all beautiful!  Then we went to the military band concert on base.  It started and ended great!  The heavy rock was too wierd for Christmas!!  Still glad we went with Kuerths and sis.Pruit and Currier!  Two  weeks until Christmas!! Unbelievable!!!