MERRY CHRISTMAS!
FUN AND FRIENDS WILL MAKE IT
MERRY!
Yeah for the Meyers! We love it when they visit the temple!
Lauren with Jaimi Meyers last week.
Brother and Sister Hatch at the Oakland Temple!! They visited this week!
And look who was waiting at the door of the Visitor's Center to greet them!
White Elephant Gifts for the Zone Conference party!
She said the foot massager is in the package with the yellow bow and everyone was trading for it!
Hey! She didn't tell us what she got!
You can tell some of those packages were "wrapped" by Elders!
Sister Orantes and Sister Johnson
They look like they are having lots of fun!
The Christmas Tree that Steve Johnson decorated BY HIMSELF!
There is a first time for everything.
Greetings!
Hahaha the tree looks.......interesting!
Hahaha just kidding, tell Dad I'm proud of him too and that it looks
great! Just maybe consider taking some of the ribbon off... hehe :-) And
I did get the big poster from the ward! I forgot to thank him! So thank
you Daddio, it was so nice and everyone was so sweet to do that!! And
I'm happy for Brad that he's almost done with school. Hallelujah!
Yes
it was good to see the Meyer's again! They also brought me some
peppermint bark that I haven't devoured yet but will soon! :-)
It
was raining a lot at the beginning of the week so it was slow in the
VC, but the last few nights really picked up! I think it will stay
pretty busy from now on too since Christmas is approaching us. By the
way, have you watched He is the Gift yet? You probably have. Just
reminding you if you haven't! And we got those red scarves from Salt
Lake. They want us to wear them when we're at the front door and on
outside tour for Christmas but we have also been wearing them in the
Visitor's Center to match. :) And that picture is from us
practicing our Christmas program! We are singing Christmas Eve and
Christmas Day at the Visitor's Center. Did I tell you I'm playing flute
for some of the songs? :) The songs this year are really simple and easy
because we didn't have much time to put something together, but it is
going to be fun. :) So that's one of the cool bonuses about being a VC
sister is you get to do a Christmas program!
This
past week we also had our Christmas Zone conference! Sister Orantes and
I gave a training and it went really well (thank heavens) and we had a
really nice Christmas lunch provided by the Oakland Stake and then a
white elephant gift exchange in each zone! (There were 3 zones at our
conference.) The gift I brought was a foot massage machine that has been
in our apartment for a long time. When I first got there we gave a lot
of stuff away and I wanted to give it away because it was in the way and
really dirty but I never got around to it. I'm happy I didn't though
because it was the perfect white elephant gift! So I cleaned it all up
and wrapped it (never tested it to see if it actually worked
though...oops :)) and it was a hit! A lot of missionaries wanted it and
kept stealing it from people during the exchange. Haha so I was happy
about that :) The gift that President and Sister Meredith gave all the
missionaries is a temple recommend holder with a picture of the Oakland
Temple, the Golden Gate bridge, and a quote and their names signed on
the back. It was so nice of them!! So that was a fun day!
Other
than that and the VC being a blast with all the sisters, one of our
investigator's who is going to get baptized in January continues to blow
our minds because of how awesome she is. She visited Washington D.C.
over the weekend and before we told her to look up what ward she can go
to on Sunday
there, she already had! And she had a great experience at church there
by herself and also a great experience that she told us about when she
visited the temple. I just think it's amazing how the Lord let's
miracles happen all the time if we're obedient, seeking and praying for
them. :)
Oh yeah! We got transfer calls on
Saturday and I am staying in Berkeley with Sister Orantes! Woohoo! We
are so happy we get to stay together. There are a lot of other changes
though happening in the VC with the sisters (all of them will still be
in the visitor's center, they are mostly just getting switched around).
As for calling on Christmas, I will let you know the details next Monday. I do know that it will be in the morning of Christmas day though!
That's all for this week - here are some more pictures! Love you!!!
Love,
Sister Johnson
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