Christmas Cheer

We got up early this morning and finished moving everything over to our new apartment and then met President Balderama at the church to go get rice for our Christmas rice project.The project went really well and we are so grateful to everyone who donated to the effort. We were able to take 10 kgs. of rice to more than 70 families which should feed each family for close to a week.In addition we were able to give each family some canned fish and packages of noodles. They were all very thankful and appreciated the gift. We were really touched by the generosity of so many and want you all to know it was greatly appreciated. We still have some money left and some still coming so plan to do some longer term help to some older widows who are really destitute.After delivering the food we did some unpacking at our new house and then rushed over to the district center in Naic to watch the youth put on their roadshows.What they did is each branch was assigned to perform different scenes of the Christmas story such as the inn, the wise men, the angel and the shepherds, etc. and then they put it all together and also had singing and choreography throughout.They did a great job, it was really good. At the end they asked Paddocks and us to give some closing comments- they do that to us all the time but it was good. We then had to hurry back to the Punta branch Christmas party. We watched Mr. Krueger's Christmas, the youth put on their part of the play sang some songs and played some games and then I gave some closing remarks. It was was a busy day but was fun and had a good time.