The picture was taken by a ward member that loves the sister missionaries -- she has a front table with pictures of all the ones who have passed through her home. Awesome!
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Hey everyone,
It's finally Christmas this week! The great thing about that is that our mission-wide Christmas Devotional was yesterday in Dublin, and it was SO much fun to see everyone in the mission! We mostly listened to a ton of special musical numbers and performances, had a white elephant gift exchange, and a big fancy lunch that was organized by the Lewis Center ward. It was so awesome to see some of the ward members I left! Unfortunately I forgot my camera today but we took some pictures with the Carters of all the missionaries that have served in Lewis Center this past year, I'll send them next week. For the last hour of the schedule, we put on the musical devotional program and I sung in the choir (imagine that!). It felt awesome to be surrounded by such great "family" out here, since this is my first year not being home for Christmas!
Not too much else to report on in Hilliard- we were on bikes, and we're lucky to get the car on Christmas Eve, so we can visit a lot of people this week. I finally got over being sick, but then a day later Sister King got really sick, so not much has been done the past few days. It got really cold again last week, but now I'm questioning if a White Christmas is even possible- how depressing is that, since this is my one opportunity to experience that! But it's been REALLY dark and gloomy and I've only seen the sun twice in the past 2 weeks.
Something funny though is that I've met a couple people here who know a lot about San Diego. One of the members we had dinner with, Brother Lewis, served in the Carlsbad Mission, but served in Scripps Ranch, Miramar, and Fallbrook (he knows the MacDonalds!). And I found the Lundberg's son, who is Brother Young in Hilliard. During ward council he was like, what- I lived in the Penasquitos 3rd ward! So that was cool.
Can't wait to Skype home in two days! Be on by 12:10 Pacific time!
Love,
Sister Petersen
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