Archive for December, 2007

The Gingerbread Train

First off in the news, on the night of Christmas Eve, the missionaries from the Camelback 2nd Branch joined together in a collaborative effort to create the most amazing Gingerbread Train ever. The inspiration came from hundreds of Mexican-modified cars. Though it may not be very clear from the photograph, it included a spoiler, [...]

Merry Christmas to All!

Well, here’s me, wishing all of you very, very Merry Christmases. I’m enjoying myself here in Arizona, though it’s still not quite cold enough for snow. For some reason (maybe statistics, maybe the current weather), I doubt that I’ll be having a White Christmas. Though I don’t know, the sun is just about bright enough [...]

The Christmas Season

My goodness. I do enjoy the Christmas season, I must admit. I do have to say, however, that it’s not really like Christmas if there aren’t certain qualifications: It must be cold, there must be snow, and one must be with one’s family.
Apart from those certain qualifications (which are not currently met for me), this [...]

Assorted Shtuffs

Wowee… This week has been just about superb. First off, we had transfers. That was good fun. I’m enjoying having a new companion, despite the fact that he snores, and I can’t complain about the other new elder in the district.
I don’t know if I mentioned this, but before we had an elder here who [...]

Crazy-go-nuts…

That’s the only word that I can describe for right now. It’s not so much the mission that’s got me feeling that way, but all the stuff that I just read in a bunch of emails… I had a record 17 new emails this week… Crazy, eh?
Sadly, Cinny, my dog, died this week. There isn’t [...]