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Elder Nelson - Merry Christmas!

Dear Family,

Mission NewsSunday night and Monday night we had a Christmas Devotional for all of the missionaries. Half came on Sunday night and half on Monday night. Mom was in charge of the treats after the devotionals. I was in charge of the hot chocolate. It is a bit more difficult than you think to provide hot chocolate for 100 people.

Christmas Treats provided by the senior missionaries. Some of the mail was put on the stage for the missionaries to pick up. We had about 600 packages for Christmas. I am responsible for distributing the mail. I am glad Christmas is over.
The Devotionals were very, very nice. The music was provided by the missionaries (mostly) and it was very good.

Saturday we attended the baptism of a young college graduate in Woodbridge. There were 14 senior missionaries and 6 young missionaries at the baptism. There were 3 friends who also attended.

Fun StuffThey weather has been very nice. Sunny and warm-ish – 60 degrees.

Christmas day as we were fixing breakfast our Spanish sisters, Sister Takahashi and Sister Young stopped by. We invited them for breakfast and we had a delightful time. We fixed a couple of dishes for the Christmas dinner with the senior missionaries. We had a delicious dinner and a very nice visit. We came home and watched “The Other Side of Heaven 2” about Elder Groberg first time as mission president in Tonga. He had a very different kind of experience that our president. We liked it. In between times we visited with you all.

Vennard, Zabriskie, Gowan, Cook, Larsen, Nelson at the Senior Christmas get together.
The Vennards, who are very well off, gave all of the Seniors a picture of Joseph and Mary (12x14” nicely framed). They got the artwork from Salt Lake and had it printed on canvas and mounted in nice frames.


I usually have about a 5 pound Christmas. However this year I think I pretty well held my weight steady despite many, many sweet temptations.

WES NewsWe are still cleaning up a few issues. We should receive a partial payment from the company that bought the business in January. The final payment will come in June.

Family NewsAll seemed to have a had a Merry Christmas. Chelsea was at Lance’s. Chelsea was the game organizer including a Spooky scavenger hunt. Kent and Lindsey were at Lindsey’s brothers place in Cedar City. McKay arrived late from the Hawaii (BYU football game) on Christmas day. The girls opened their presents on the 26th. After Christmas Derek and family are going exploring in Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama.

Love you all,

Dad

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