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| Town Hall Interior |
So as poor, lost expatriates we are managing to survive the Christmas Holidays away from home. Lest you think all we do is play, we do put in a full day at the Mission Office each day. But we do try to savor the culture of the Yorkshire area. As it got closer to Christmas, we realised that this is the home of most of our cherished Christmas images.
| Leeds Town Hall |
As Christmas grew closer we went back into the city to the Leeds Town Hall to see a production of Handel's Messiah. It was, of course, beautiful. I was whistling those tunes for days.
Christmas was getting close. On the Tuesday before Christmas we had the mission Christmas Party. President and Sister Lindley spent a great deal of effort to bring the entire mission together for a day. It was held at the RAF base in Harrogate. That base is host to about 2,000 USAF personnel and welcomed our group of about 140 missionaries to their facilities. The young missionaries love to be together and enjoyed an opportunity relax a little. In the morning they bowled and played various sports. In the afternoon was some entertainment and fun. In the evening we dressed up for a lovely dinner and the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life." It was great fun.
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| We gathered a few of our friends around us! |
So I guess you can see that we are filling our time. We do miss our family and friends but we are enjoying the wonderful experiences here. The greatest of which are the wonderful people we meet. For our Christmas dinner we enjoyed the company of a missionary fron Scotland, a missionary from Germany and a young man from South Africa who had just joined the church. We fed them Mexican food (my request). We had a wonderful time and then talked to family on Skype. So we continue to totter on in our retirement having experiences and blessings we could not have imagined. We love our Savior and rejoice in His gospel!
