This Weeks News From NY

Hi everyone!  We started our busy week by driving a sister missionary down to the Syracuse Airport at 4:30 Monday morning.  That's the story of mission work. We had a wonderful couple of days with Mark and Mel and kids.  It was so much fun to meet Cael and know his sweet, happy personality.  The weather isn't the greatest here, but we had fairly good travel conditions.  They met the Mission mother down in Palmyra and came to the Watertown Christmas party with us and met lots of the returned soldiers and their families.  This picture is at Sackett's Harbor which is now ice.  It was cold, but fun.  We shopped at H&M (eat your heart out girls), and saw the sights at Palmyra.  At the Watertown Christmas party one of the soldiers who is home on leave for Christmas gave us an American flag that was flown over the Multi National Corps- Iraq Headquarters in Bagdad.  It had a certificate with it signed by a general and a thank you to us for our support.  We were thrilled and honored and will treasure it.  Mark and Mel left about 1:30 on Saturday and we went on to the Carthage Ward Christmas party and followed that by two baptisms for which we furnished the food and programs.  It seems we get busier and busier.  This week we have half mission Zone Conference in Utica, taking the Elders and Sisters bowling for their p day (8 of them), taking a couple down to the Temple to be sealed and trying to visit everyone to take our Christmas goodies around  and do our volunteer work.  Tomorrow night we are wrapping up our sub for Santa presents at Young Adults.  It is a busy, happy work.  We send our love to you all at this holiday season!