Jingle all the Way

Merry Christmas everyone. As you may have noticed we did not post our Blog last week. Our internet totally died last Saturday so we have been out of touch with the world this past week so the events we have posted happened not this week but last.
I am now doing my best to post this with our good neighbors computer


This week we have had several activities, a Temple trip, Zone Conference, School concert and our Branch Christmas party. Its been a fun week.

At our Zone Conference this week our district was ask to perform so Sister Balling and Zalenski decided to play their  ukuleles and have us sing Mele Kalikimaka and Jingle bells. This is probably the only time you will ever see a picture of Elder and Sister Lybbert in a musical performance so I thought it should be recorded. We thought we could get by mouthing the words but the rest of the group were not a whole lot better than us so it was entertaining if nothing else.
It was a great zone conference and it was great visiting with the other senior couples and having President and Sister Batt talk to us.

One of the Sister Missionaries brought her Jingle Dress that she had made.  They are made of cotton fabric and then metal cones are sewn on. The cones are made from the tops of snuff cans and bent around a wood dowel. At Pow wows the Jingle dance is performed by light footwork close to the ground, the feet never crossing and never turning backward or in a complete circle. As they dance a pleasant tingling sound is made.

The Elementary School concert was a fun to watch. What they lacked in talent they made up in enthusiasm. This little girl always gives us a hug every time we see her and she especially likes Elder Lybbert. We met her several times when we visited at Antonias and she hasn't forgotten us.

The mission had a Temple Excursion to Snowflake for the young missionaries and us Seniors could go if we took the Elders in our area. They had a special session for us on Monday and it was a great experience to be in the Temple with all those cream of the crop young people. One of our missionaries, Elder Earl is next to me and Elder Amott is on the back row second in from the right. Great missionaries.

Last week was an exciting week, taking goodies to friends and giving the Christmas message. There are so many needy people here we have no problem giving at Christmas time. Today a Sister phoned to ask if there were any gloves in some second hand clothing we had at the Church because she would like to give her husband a gift and he needed gloves. I told her we would find some gloves for her. She then asked if we had any of that pretty paper and if I could wrap them for her and put her husbands name on it.  We went to Bashes and bought some gloves and wrapped them for her.

Hopefully next week we will get our internet back and I will tell you about our fun Christmas party.
Thanks to all our friends and family who like us enough to read our Blog. We love and miss you all. We do love the work here and will miss our friends here when we leave.  You really do learn to love the people you serve.
Love to all,
Elder and Sister Lybbert