Speaking of Indonesia...: Christmas in Surabaya

Christmas has come and gone yet it doesn't seem like we celebrated Christmas this year! On the 23rd some of the elders came over and assembled food baskets to take to members, investigators or neighbors in need. Since it was also Elder Barlow's birthday we also had chocolate cake and ice cream!

On the 25th the first set of elders arrived at 6:30 am to begin Skyping families! The Skyping and facetiming went on all day....literally! We ate several times during the day...cold cereal, French toast, omelets with bacon and hash browns. We had juice and milk and fruit as well! The elders watched four or five animated movies (Mega mind ... Lion King ... Toy Story 2 ... Mulan ... not sure what else). It's fun to listen to them laugh and just have a good time watching movies. We read the Nativity from Luke chapter 2 and passed out Christmas stockings to each elder. Around 7:00 pm they headed for home :). The only downside was Elder Anderson has been sick for nearly two weeks...fever, headache, intestinal problems...he spent much of the day in the bathroom or sleeping! The elders gave him a blessing and I'm praying he will get better soon!

Bagging rice for food baskets