A wonderfully creative sister and her husband collect shells to make picture frames that they give away to new members. She made a nativity out of some of the shells and gave us one. It is so simple yet so beautiful.
Christmas has been a very relaxing and stress free one. We have had a wonderful time putting together a night of caroling to the missionaries in the missionary training center in our building. We also went caroling to the building close to us where two of the area presidency and their family live. We also arranged for the senior couples to provide gifts for the 65 missionaries as well which both the seniors and the missionary elders and sisters thoroughly enjoyed. We had 5 big bags of presents in our apartment and felt very much like Santa's workshop!
We also had the opportunity to go to the beach on Christmas morning with about 10 other couples. It was a beautiful sunny day and the morning was delightful. The water was warm and we had a lovely trip since there was little traffic out on Christmas day. While there, Sherrie fell in love with a palm leaf hat. She negotiated for a palm leaf grass hopper to go on top and I was able to get a video of the fellow teaching us how to make one. It was very clever.
Our activities at the institute are slow right now with school being out and the institute activities on hold until January 11th. We are excited about Wendy and two of her friends flying down on the 31st to spend 8 days with us. We plan to see some of the beautiful sights here. She is also bringing some books to donate to a private school here which is so wonderful since they have very little or nothing in the way of supplies. She is on the board of directors for "Books for a Better World" which distributes books all over the world to promote literacy.
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