That snow that fell on the 7th, didn't melt! In fact today 1/3/13, we still have ice on the driveway!
The St. George natives claim that snow like that comes to St. George about once every 30 years. We got to see it! It has made it fun to have white stuff here! We all laugh that no one has a snow shovel! We are glad we had S and the plow on the four wheeler! I don't know if I recorded that he did 22 walks that Sunday that church was cancelled. That made for a lot of people grateful for him! I am too S! I love you TONS!
Our night at the Nativity was beautiful! I recorded that I was sad that so many used excuses that they were too busy to come participate in that night. In the end, we thought we had three other groups coming with us, but we ended up taking just our family and the sister missionaries assigned to our ward. They are two cute sisters and we are grateful to have them around! They had to get special permission to be there, for the evening, but said after they loved it. We did too! This year the instructions said no outside costumes were allowed. When we got there, the shepherd and towns person costumes were gone. We managed to find a few that people had hidden to save for others they hoped were coming. B was a towns person for a change with the two littlest. I changed into white thermals that A.S. brought and got to be an angel with S! Brin wanted badly to be with her dad B so she helped with the littles. It was a year I will never forget! S and J got to be shepherds. After we had read the Christ Center Christmas book, I gained new insights and appreciation for being turned away from the Inn and Mary being all alone. Power and strength. They know!
The Sunday before Christmas was a beautiful program at Church. I loved it! Somehow as I took the sacrament, I had this feeling that this was the ACTUAL same bread that the Savior had touched! You know how special it is to see historical things. To walk in those same places. The bread was the SAME bread that He broke. Same flour, salt and water! Same! He touched it, blessed it, and gave it the believers! Eat in remembrance of HIM! It was a new experience again for me!
That night we did tithing settlement, and then we got to attend the rebaptism of Brother K (father to 8 sons and 1 daughter from Santa Clara - awesome family!!!) It was AMAZING! The spirit was sooo strong! The Stake President conducting compared it to the meeting with the believers in America when they cried and begged the Savior to not leave, they were basking in the spirit and didn't want it to end! The events leading up to this baptism are amazing, but the punch line is that they didn't expect to hear from the 1st Presidency until January or February. The stake president got a call from the prophet himself who told him to tell Brother K that "his sins are forgiven him and the Lord is pleased with him!" They tried to say let's do it after Christmas, and the Prophet said - no - make this baptism happen before Christmas! So they did! There were more people there than in our Sacrament meeting! It was powerful! As you see this humble, big man, weeping, testifying of the truthfulness of the Gospel. It was a night to never forget!
Monday we participated in the annual serving lunch with the A family at DI. Because the L's are in Africa on their mission and they usually do it, it was totally different than the past couple years. It always requires several miracles and that morning was not exception. I had all the littles and I so wanted Jr team to get to help. J was home and he is such a good help. I got to be there for quite a while. Little J tended in the car watching movies while we worked inside. It worked out beautifully! We served 140 people and we were in charge of a drink and salad.
Our night at the Nativity was beautiful! I recorded that I was sad that so many used excuses that they were too busy to come participate in that night. In the end, we thought we had three other groups coming with us, but we ended up taking just our family and the sister missionaries assigned to our ward. They are two cute sisters and we are grateful to have them around! They had to get special permission to be there, for the evening, but said after they loved it. We did too! This year the instructions said no outside costumes were allowed. When we got there, the shepherd and towns person costumes were gone. We managed to find a few that people had hidden to save for others they hoped were coming. B was a towns person for a change with the two littlest. I changed into white thermals that A.S. brought and got to be an angel with S! Brin wanted badly to be with her dad B so she helped with the littles. It was a year I will never forget! S and J got to be shepherds. After we had read the Christ Center Christmas book, I gained new insights and appreciation for being turned away from the Inn and Mary being all alone. Power and strength. They know! 
The Sunday before Christmas was a beautiful program at Church. I loved it! Somehow as I took the sacrament, I had this feeling that this was the ACTUAL same bread that the Savior had touched! You know how special it is to see historical things. To walk in those same places. The bread was the SAME bread that He broke. Same flour, salt and water! Same! He touched it, blessed it, and gave it the believers! Eat in remembrance of HIM! It was a new experience again for me!
That night we did tithing settlement, and then we got to attend the rebaptism of Brother K (father to 8 sons and 1 daughter from Santa Clara - awesome family!!!) It was AMAZING! The spirit was sooo strong! The Stake President conducting compared it to the meeting with the believers in America when they cried and begged the Savior to not leave, they were basking in the spirit and didn't want it to end! The events leading up to this baptism are amazing, but the punch line is that they didn't expect to hear from the 1st Presidency until January or February. The stake president got a call from the prophet himself who told him to tell Brother K that "his sins are forgiven him and the Lord is pleased with him!" They tried to say let's do it after Christmas, and the Prophet said - no - make this baptism happen before Christmas! So they did! There were more people there than in our Sacrament meeting! It was powerful! As you see this humble, big man, weeping, testifying of the truthfulness of the Gospel. It was a night to never forget! 
Monday we participated in the annual serving lunch with the A family at DI. Because the L's are in Africa on their mission and they usually do it, it was totally different than the past couple years. It always requires several miracles and that morning was not exception. I had all the littles and I so wanted Jr team to get to help. J was home and he is such a good help. I got to be there for quite a while. Little J tended in the car watching movies while we worked inside. It worked out beautifully! We served 140 people and we were in charge of a drink and salad.