Christmas Day

Christmas Day is always a little interesting when you are a missionary overseas.   It is the big holidays when you miss your family most.   However, with Skype our kids were able to open their prezzies with grandma and grandpa and say hello to everyone. Each year our kids just get one present from us. Makayla desperately wanted a new baseball glove. So, she got a pink one. Dawson wanted a blue scooter and Brayden wanted a bike. They were all pretty easy things to obtain, but the excitement on their faces when they opened them was endless.  Luckily we were invited to our friends house to spend Christmas with their family.  This family is one of the newest families to our church and Melissa and Debbie have been friends for quite a while.  But, it was a beautiful time with them. The temperature was warm. Melissa made yummy ice cream cakes.  She made a violet crumble one and a strawberry mars bar one. They were yum! We headed to our friends house with our bathers  and food to share in a wonderful morning.   Afterwards we headed to another friends house to share dinner.  It was a lovely day. I have posted some pictures below. The thing we loved most about this day. Was that we were able to share with them the true meaning of Christmas. Both the families we had lunch with, the husband is not a believer yet. But, we pray every day that God will grab a hold of their lives and that they would be changed.  Their children all believe in Jesus and have asked Jesus to be their Lord and Saviour. Pray with us that 2013 would be the year God grabs a hold of their hearts.