Feliz Navidad! We woke up this morning to.......
SILENCE! This was the quietest Christmas morning of my entire life!
No children giggles, no wake-up calls. There were no cars on the Rambla either.
I turned over and told Mike, this is too sad. I am going back to sleep. But then of course I turned by thoughts to the good things I have and to the birth of my Savior, my Loving Brother and once again reflect on how little I comprehend the significance of His sacrifice. My gratitude is much though and I hope that my actions are consistent with that gratitude. "I am trying to be like Jesus", as the Primary Song declares.
To brighten the day, I went to mormontabernaclechoir.org and played their Christmas music.
We opened our little group of presents, had breakfast and relaxed a bit.
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| Rudolph alias Hermana Orme |
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| The Lobo's are temple workers |
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| This was from our upstairs neighbors. |
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| A few more presents under our tree. |
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| Our Christmas gifts. The big box was a propane gas BBQ grill that fits on our deck and won't smoke out our neighbors like the other one we bought thinking we could just use charcoal. Good idea until we found out that the bag of charcoal was nothing more than burnt wood. Charcoal as we know it does not exist in Uruguay. |
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| Uruguay calendar for 2015. |
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| Hermana Cook liked my pins that I gave to all my grandsons. They gave these as gifts to the missionaries this year. |
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| My Christmas Card Door. We loved the notes from our Granite View Ward. |
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| President Ventura and his wife are the Temple president and matron. |
Around noon we started facetiming with our families at home.
We so enjoyed watching Christmas morning with them.
The blessings of living in the United States are not known
until you leave the country. Our people as a whole are
truly blessed with abundance. I hope that spiritual abundance
equals or more than the obvious physical abundance.
Eveyone back home had a good Christmas day.
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| The Cook's had Christmas lunch for the local missionaries. |
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| Hermana Cook got a bike for Christmas. Her doctor recommended this for her as exercise. She has feet problems so walking or running is too painful. |
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| The perfect picture to end our Christmas day. |
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