Feliz Navidad 2014

December flew by in a blur. 

We spent our days:

*Working with the missionaries to share the message He is the Gift -

*Traveling the mission for interviews with 238 amazing missionaries like these two -

*Making paper Christmas trees -

*Decorating our home for the holidays with this group -

*Caroling -

*Seeing a favorite former missionary who came back to visit - 

*Checking out the office Christmas tree. Hermana Wynn & Hermana Kauer made an ornament for each missionary. I LOVE this tree!

*Gathering a family photo for each of our missionaries and making them into a video to show at our Christmas Conference -

*Making a ring for each missionary out of a baby coconut that we gathered from a tree on the Concepcion temple grounds -

Baking sugar cookies for a zone meeting and chocolate chip cookies for a ward party -

*Attending a few wonderful Christmas concerts -

*Having a Christmas conference with all 238 young missionaries and 12 senior missionaries -

*Caroling at the hospital - 

*Enjoying every minute we got to spend with the Mills family -

*Having a fun Christmas day activity with the missionaries - 

*Having interviews, dinner and a final testimony meeting with these faithful missionaries before taking them to the airport for their return home -

*And picking up this awesome new group of missionaries -

*Having lunch and visiting with the families who came to pick up their missionaries -

*And celebrating our 1/2 way mark -

We really, really love our mission and are grateful for each day we get to spend here in Concepcion.