CHRISTMAS 2012

What a special time of year to look back and see what has happened to bless our lives.  How grateful we are for our Savior, Jesus Christ and His atonement.  How blessed we are to have the knowledge of the restored gospel and the blessing of making covenants with our Savior and our Father in Heaven.  The most important covenants we make are in the holy temple.  We know that to get there we have already made the covenants necessary to enter there.  We love and cherish the fact that we are an eternal family bound together for all eternity.  The restored gospel of Jesus Christ is so true and fills us with peace and comfort.  We have an earthly father to lead this family in a righteous way, who is so worthy and honors his priesthood. He never wavers.  We are so blessed.
Christmas was so wonderful because we didn't do gifts. (don't have room to take anything home) {Mom's excuse for not buying me a present!} We were a bit homesick but the blessings of being missionaries overcame the emptiness.  The day was especially good because we heard from every family.  That's one of the purposes of the season, to strengthen families in the gospel.  We felt like we were right there because we could see everyone.  It was great.  WE LOVE OUR FAMILY.  I'm not sure I have said that before.  Hum!
We decided to put a 1000 piece puzzle together during the holidays.  It's under the bed still not finished.  They say doing puzzles helps delay alzheimers.  We should be pretty sharp.  We might even remember to close the trunk.
We thought we would just go to the grocery store and buy an already cooked chicken for Christmas dinner. That didn't last long.  We had a turkey feast.  It was just the two of us but it was fun.  I even did homemade rolls.

a shop in Blairsville

The 26th was district meeting so we headed to Blairsville, Georgia and dad gave a great training.
We were excited when Dave and Tiffy knocked on our door.  Tiff and I just bawled.  Shocker!
Saturday Tiffani went with us to a baptism.  It was for Donna, a special lady the elders taught.  The Spirit was so very strong.  I love baptisms.
To know what we did the next few days just go on the Jennings blog and Tiffani has posted the days.
Elder Bayles and I spoke in church on Sunday.  It was on the doctrine of Christ and keeping the Christmas spirit all year long.  I think it went well.  Everyone loved the Jennings family.

private bedroom

The kids have made friends with all the cats in the neighborhood and feed them well.  They need a pet.
I love Elder Bayles and his patience with me.

Sept 21st 1904  I went through the Temple & got ready & left Salt Lake at 5:45 PM  for Chattanooga, Tenn in company with Elders Law & Johnson.  We got to St. Louis on the morning of the 24th and stayed & visited the fair that day & at night we continued our journey arriving at Chattanooga on the 25th at about 3 o'clock P.M.  Not being anybody at the depot to meet us we had some little trouble in finding the office of the Mission.