So
this Christmas was great! We went over the the Lanskrun Family's house
for Christmas Eve (which is really their big day that they celebrate
here in Chile and they call it "Noche Buena" and Santa comes that night
and they all open their gifts at midnight! We had Christmas Eve dinner
with them and it was pretty funny because we couldn`t eat the salad
because it had pig intestines in it and we have a rule that we can't eat
pig intestines for safety reasons, so we ate all of the leaves and the
outside of a half of an egg for our salad and just pushed the intestine
puree to the side of our plate. Then they brought out the main course
which was turkey and guess what? It was completely frozen :) hahaha It
was pre-cooked and just had to be heated up but it was frozen through
still so they began to cut it up into pieces and heat it up in the
microwave little by little haha I got a good laugh out of that. Then
they brought out dessert and it was these cupcakes that they made in a
cake pan (because they don't really make cupcakes in Chile so they
didn't really know how to do it and they didn't have any cupcake molds
to make it so they were pretty funny looking and they had cream on top
(the type of cream that they put on Everything here and that really
dosn't have any flavor at all. And ya know what? Although it seemed
like just about everything went wrong with that Christmas dinner, I had
the time of my life!! We focused on the reason for the season, our
Savior Jesus Christ and we had a live Nativity and laughed a whole
bunch. I cannot think of a better way to pass the Christmas season than
focusing on the true reason and finding the Joy that is possible
through our Savior, Jesus Christ!!!
We
also had a Christmas activity in which we watched "The Testament" and
you wanna know who showed up?! About 5 members of our ward and 5 OF OUR
INVESTIGATORS!! And they all loved the movie and were amazing about the
Idea that Christ came to the Americas! He visited with not only the
ancient inhabitants of Jerusalem, but he visited his "other sheep" here
in the Americas! There is a whole other part of the story of Jesus
Christ written here in the Americas by prophets of old and you can read
all about it in the Book of Mormon!! What an Incredible gift!!
I love you guys!! Hope you all had an amazing Christmas and will have a Happy New Year!!
--Hermana Harvey
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| We had a live Nativity with the Lanskrun Family on Christmas Eve! :) That was fun! |
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| Hermana Smoot doing her crunches on Christmas morning! Even on Christmas we've gotta be obedient!! :) |
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| Opened our gifts!! I loved all of them Thank YOu!! And the pajamas are super duper comfy! |
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| We made pizza on Chirstmas! It's a tradition in the Smoot house so we upheld the tradition with Hermana Smoot :) |
(WARNING!! DO NOT LOOK AT THESE PICTURES IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH!!!)
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| My Papito holding up the skin and head of the lamb right after he had skinned it. He looks WAY too happy, right?! |
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| My mamita is breaking the jaw of the lamb in this moment... It wasn't a pretty sound... |
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| Yes... that's the head of a lamb that I am holding. Fun, right? |
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