We Gather Together To Share The Lord's Blessings

We had a good Thanksgiving with all the traditional Thanksgiving food. Two traditional Thanksgiving food items that you can not get down here are sweet potatoes and cranberries so I brought canned sweet potatoes with me so that we could have sweet potato cassarole and someone else that came from the States brought canned cranberry relish. We had 13 people for Thanksgiving dinner: Daisy, Daviana and Luis Fernando (Lucho is in Colombia right now so he wasn't able to come), Kay and Leo and their baby Sofia (Kay and Leo are missionaries here. Kay is from the States and Leo is from Chile), Marta and Soledad, and then the five of us. (The picture was taken before Marta and Soledad got there.)

holding baby Sofia

-Merry Christmas-

When I got home from school the day after Thanksgiving the Christmas tree was already up. They put the ornaments on after I got home. One of my favorite traditions about Christmas is sitting around in the living room looking at the Christmas tree with the living room lights off and the Christmas tree lights on. I also like looking at all the ornaments and remembering stories. There is one ornament that Kathlyn made when she was little, it is a wreath made out of felt with little pom-pom berries on it. It only has a couple of pom-poms left because when we were in the car after church the day that Kathlyn made it she stuck one of the pom-poms up her nose. She wasn't a very good nose blower at that time so it took a little bit of work to get it out but it definitely made for good memories. I love you Kathlyn ;)

-Alpha and Church (November 28, 2009)-

Joaquin led the singing for the church service last night. Lucho usually leads the songs but since he is in Colombia right now we have had to manage without him.




The kids doing a fish puzzle during children's church.

-Juliana's Class Party-

Today Juliana had a school class party at a house on the outskirts of Santiago. She wasn't able to swim because she broke her collar bone again but they did a lot of playing in the water.

All the water activity really wore them out.

This week will be my last week of spanish classes. When I finish I will have completed 9 weeks of classes. I have learned a lot but I still have a long way to go.

Thank you all again for your prayers!

Kristin