Week 11 (Nov. 24-30)
Monday, November 25, 2013 It was pretty cold walking this
morning. Don’t know what the temp is but
didn’t get above 19 degrees yesterday so it was cold. As soon as we got to work for the
afternoon shift there were two cars that came together. They were of the same family and traveling
together but from North Carolina and New Hampshire. One of the families had a foreign exchange
student from France. Between the
families there were 15 people in the group.
At the end of the tour, one of the Fathers thanked me for the nice tour
and said he had been there 5 or 6 times and had never heard as many details as
he heard today. He thought it was great
and it made me feel good! -- Before we gathered for Home evening, I along
with Elder Johnson gave a blessing to
brother Van Bennett. He is a
regular Church attendee but still having problems with the word of wisdom. There were not as many people to Family Home
evening as usually attend.
After the meeting we hurried home where I watched BYU in a tournament in
Kansas City. They ended up pulling it
out in the end but was a great game to watch with many lead changes and almost
20 tie scores.
The FM missionaries brought the Poinsettias the day before Thanksgiving. They were the final and important aspect for the Christmas decorations. It took our entire shift getting them arranged that day.
Thanksgiving
We spent Thanksgiving at the Director's Residence (Johnsons) with the other 4 missionary couples. It was a delicious meal and a very enjoyable day. I took pumpkin pie and fruit salad.
THANKSGIVING, Thursday, November 27, 2013. Today was supposedly our day off but no such thing. We went back to the Memorial for Thanksgiving Dinner with the other four couples at 1:00pm. We have a very lovely dinner and then we played Sally Dyches ”dice game”. Turned out to be a different version of some type of white elephant gift thing but it was fun anyway. I certainly ate more than I should have. When we got back to the apartment I started working on some “book” work and paying some of the monthly bills that had arrived as well as a couple more football games on the TV.
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| Taking home left-overs was funny because we look like some of the FHE people every week . |
Christmas Lights and Live Nativity Pageant
Friday night, November 29, the Christmas lights were turned on following a life Nativity Pageant. |
| The manger is on the hill under the star |
Our stake (Montpelier) was in charge of the program that night then it was repeated on Saturday night with the Concord New Hampshire stake. Those two nights were the coldest it has been all year. The young people in the pageant, as well as the hundreds of spectators were all freezing to death. Everyone was anxious for warm apple cider and donuts that we served after the program. (It warmed up significantly the following week).
Friday, November 29 - Today marks the beginning of our Christmas Lights as the Memorial. As a result our shift changes for the next month or so. We started with the long shift today, from 1:00pm to 9:00pm. We had lots of visitors to give tours to during the daytime and then in the evening we hosted a Live Nativity for members of the Montpelier Stake. One of the members brought her sheep and a donkey to go along with the “real” people who took part. We served hot cider and apple cider donuts to all who came. We tried to count but with the people going between both buildings it was more like a guess. We estimated there were 450 guests here just in the evening. I was working in the Visitor Center when up comes this man and gave me a big hug. It was Earl Wright from Midway. We knew he had family here but didn’t know where. He was to the lighting with his daughter and after visiting with them we found the daughter is the wife of the Stake President, President Weeks (we found out he used t live in Walsburg). Anyway it was good to see him but it also seemed like a long day and we were both very tired.
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| Johnsons brought many nativities from around the world to display |
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