We flew to Anchorage the week of November 14th and we saw the Ady family sealed in the Anchorage Temple. What a spiritual feast to have President Perkins, the Temple President, perform the sealing. It was a highlight.
When we returned we worked hard to recoup our teach-ees and found that most hadn’t known we were gone, which was good. The following week we went to zone conference in Juneau and were gone three days. In between traveling we had a fabulous Thanksgiving celebration and attended The Nutcracker, which is a community-centered event for the 7th year running. Whoever isn’t on stage is in the audience cheering their friends and family members. We were in the audience, of course, but recognized many cast members from our Ward family and community friends. It was a Sitka-style version of the story. The performers looked professional in their costumes and precision performances, but included in the story were dances of fishermen, Ice Maidens, the Snow Queen, little Herrings, and a Klondike Can-Can. It was a wow. The family we live with performed in several dances.
This week we're slammed. We have a week-full of people to see and invite to the Saturday Christmas party. Saturday morning we have a presentation of Frosty the Snowman to the Library children, complete with magic show by Richard's medical doctor, Ron Fribush, and then Saturday evening we entertain the ward children during the Christmas party while the adults have their gift exchange. We've given them a time limit of 45 minutes. We're going to try to get Dr. Fribush to repeat his magic act for the ward children.
It’s way too much fun in Sitka.
Love,
Richard and Linda, Mom and Dad, Papa and Nanny
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| Record snowfalls in November |
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| Cute snow shovelers |
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| Thanksgiving with Tambi and Scott at 1 p.m. They'll be heading for the temple soon! |
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| Tambi shows her FIRST ribboned crust |
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| Thanksgiving dinner at 6 with the Swanberg's and Ady's |
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| Pie with Jackie and Thomas at 8! Oh my! |
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| Beautiful Sitka |
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| Artist, Nancy Behnken, designed my Sister Kathy's Christmas card. Kathy was a champion blanket jumper. |
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| Snow, snow, snow. |
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| At Zone conference in Juneau we caroled with the other missionaries in the mall. Fun! |
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| Our friend, Heather Kroll from California who now lives in Juneau. Awesome! |
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| The Nutcracker. Our landlady is in the yellow skirt on the left. |
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| Costumes were outstanding. Dancing would rival any large city. |
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| Can you think of anything kids could do that would give them more confidence? |
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| Linda's primary class: Daniel, Briggs and Aubrey. |
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