Zone Leadership Christmas Party

You know how sometimes you are with a group of people and things are so delightful and fun and you just don't want it to end.  That is how this evening was with these wonderful missionaries.  The Youngs' home was beautiful and decked out in Christmas finery. It was so fun to see the fun things they had throughout their home for Christmas.  Plus their home itself had some interesting and fun touches.  Sister Young is very talented.

I didn't take pictures during the dinner and activities.  We had a great dinner with meatloaf, sweet potatoes, an amazing green salad, rolls, and chocolate cake (by Sister Twelmeyer) for dessert.  We had a great conversation about--Church history--surprise, surprise--and learned some interesting facts and stories about missionary journals that people had read and some history of the Church in Japan.

We then all signed the inside of the Christmas cards--well. the women did while the men "cheered" us on.  58 signatures!  Done!  (We have about 80 missionaries but we gave couples just one.)

We then played Christmas Chronology which was a big hit (not surprising with a bunch of Church History missionaries.)  This was a game we had made up for a Christmas party years ago.  My team did not win, so apparently I didn't remember my Christmas history very well!

Then Santa made an early visit---

The Youngs gave Jena a fidget, but she wasn't sure how it worked...

Elder Young helped her.

She is now a pro at it!

Here we are minus Gary who took the photo:

Elder and Sister Young, Elder and Sister Twelmeyer, and Sister Audenart, me, Jena

It was a wonderful night that we didn't want to end...and we didn't get to bed until 11:30 which isn't the best plan when you have to get up early the next morning!