Thanksgiving Wedding

Dear families,   

Hope each of you had a good Thanksgiving, and those of you in school are getting a much-needed break, at least a little bit! 

We had 18 missionaries here for Thanksgiving dinner, and there were NO leftovers except for gravy.  So on Friday we made some Thanksgiving food and ate it for leftovers! Hopefully, the store will receive sewing machines this week so we can begin our project with the prison sewing.  Then we can really get going here.  We are buying items for customized school kits for grades 1-3 and the young adults at church will assemble the kits and help us deliver them.  The school district superintendent lady is so helpful; she made us a list of grades and what materials they use, and how many kids are in need of help.  The school kits assembled in Utah are good for older grades, but the younger ones use different sizes and items. 

Today was the Primary Sacrament meeting program in the 2 branches that use our chapel.  I was playing the piano for our branch Primary practice this morning when a lady from the other branch came in all flustered and said that their pianist could not come for their program and they were ready to start in Sacrament meeting.  So I left our practice and went to play for their program.  This was immediately followed by our branch's program. 

Friday there was a wedding of two branch  people, a middle-aged couple who had never married but had been together for 30 years.  Their son is in the branch leadership and has served a mission, but the parents had never been baptized because they were not married (it costs a lot here to live as a married couple, so people often do not do it, even though they are faithful to their partner.)  But this couple were good "members" and wanted to be baptized, so they got married on Friday, had a reception given by the branch, and then their son baptized them on Saturday and confirmed them today.  What a beautiful happening!

It is slightly cooler here now but still warm.  We are looking forward to Christmas.  We hope to hear from each of you in honor of that day. 

We would especially like to hear about Christian, Jessica, Annabelle, Ryan, Nicole and Shaylee.

We love you all and pray for you each day.

Love, Mom and Dad, Grandma and Grandpa, Elder and Sister Goff