Holidays on the Island
Thanksgiving Day, 2013, was great. We spent the day at a
missionary zone conference attended by President J. Devn Cornish of the
Caribbean Area Presidency, and President and Sister Smartt. We received great
counsel and words of wisdom that inspired us to become better missionaries. MB
added some little turkeys to the luncheon.
Our Christmas Holidays were made so special by the fun visit
of Elder Costley’s sister, Kevon and her husband Brent Miller. They were so
much fun! We did lots of traveling including the Island of Vieques . We were
able to attend church there and enjoyed visiting with the four elders assigned
to that island. We finished up their visit with a trip to “Old San Juan”. We
love you Kevon and Brent!
Elder and Sister Costley and the four “young” Elder and
Sister missionaries in our Caguas Ward were asked to share a talent at the ward
Christmas party. NB got to work with the scissors and we all did the silhouette
puppet show to the song “Mary’s Boy Child”. It turned out great. We so enjoyed the dinner and visiting with
the ward members – in English. Our Spanish
is still very limited. MB contributed the little “Reindeer” cupcakes.
Each “Zone” in our mission was invited to Pres. Smartt’s
home for a lovely Christmas luncheon of good old American food. We had a great visit
with the president and his family for a couple hours – a Christmas treat.
