A White Christmas Eve

Wow! It’s snowing!!

Yep, it’s a White Christmas Eve.  It started out like this – doesn’t even show in the picture.

Now it’s picking up and sticking to the ground.

 

An hour later.

This is what my windshield looked like when I started up the car . . .

Tonight we went to the Jones’ home for a Christmas Eve dinner.  it was fun!  We were kinda nervous driving out there in the snow, but it wasn’t bad at all.

Elder Nickerson getting ready for seconds.

I want this in our wall – so true.

We played a game with beans – the women won!

Sunday, a Day of Rest

One of my favorite things to do at Christmas – look at the lights.

    

Only in the East do you see we wreaths on every home and candles in the windows.  So warm looking.

                    

Wow, Sunday a day of rest. After this week it was really needed.

In the next couple of transfers we will be getting a boat load of new missionaries and 4 more senior couples coming to our mission just in February.  Elder Jones and I left the mission office Friday morning about 9:30 AM and went west into Virginia and West Virginia looking for housing for the missionaries and there is very few apartments in these areas. We did find one small house for rent but the place looked like it lost in the Civil War.

I can not tell you how exciting and how much fun it is to be here at this time. All the new missionaries now coming in groups of 20-25 with only 4-6 going home. These young missionaries are so pumped up and ready to serve their Heavenly Father and share their testimonies of the truthfulness of the message from our Lord and our Heavenly Father.  [Elder Boehrer]

Ahh, yes, Sees Candy 

Elder Boehrer and I went for a ride tonight and saw some Christmas lights.  We also had another motive for looking at lights was a box of Sees Candy that I left at the office.  Nothing temps me more than Sees candy and nothing stops me from gorging myself with it.  Sad, but true.

A Typical P Day

Today Elder Boehrer and I went ‘shopping’ today.  Between now and February the mission has to come up with approximately six fully furnished apartments for four senior couples and four missionaries.  By June we will need approximately forty to sixty more.  Yep, the mission is growing in leaps and bounds.  It is always interesting to me to see how the Lord works.  When we think it is impossible to get something done, to find a way, to come up with all that is needed, it all falls into place.  When we are prayerful and do what we can to get the work and research done, it happens.  It never fails to amaze me – never.  It’s called having faith

I took some random pictures of our day, just to remember what our P-Days are like. . .

First stop – Ashley Furniture.  Yep, those chairs were comfortable – maybe too comfortable.

 

      

 

         

Two Goodwill Stores – always have a bargain. By they way, if I look cold – you’re right – it’s FREEZING and it hasn’t even snowed yet!

Lunch on the run.

First Day of Winter

Getting Ready for Snow

    

It is cold outside, even though it’s 37 degrees and falling, it is really cold.  I know in some places it is 10 degrees, etc. but for us California people, it’s COLD.  We might even have snow tomorrow.  For sure, I’ll let you know.  It will be our first time living in snow.  Usually we just visit snow . . .

DC Temple at Christmas

The Nickersons; Jones; Boehrers; Mortensons

Tonight us, and the Nickersons, Mortensons, and Jones went to the DC Temple to see the Christmas decorations.  First we ate at Ruby Tuesday Restaurant.  It was good, of course, and the company was great!

     

It was unbelievable.  The pictures I took don’t even do it justice.  Every tree was decorated with multiple colored lights.  Inside there was a beautiful display of nativity scenes.  Then we went back outside and saw a life size nativity scene.  In years past the scene was done with real people who stood for hours and tried not move.  Guess it was too hard to get people to do that…hummm, wonder why??  Anyways, it awe inspiring.  In my naivety, I can’t understand why when people come to the temple to visit they don’t ALL have a burning desire to learn more about the church.

 

The Jones’

 

A Greeter – He was Friendly!

A couple of parking helpers – Elders Larsen and Chafin

 

The Nickersons, Mortensons and Sister Jones

The Life Size Nativity Scene

 

This one is from USA