Last week I had taken Jenna to the church with me in order to wrap gifts for some members in the ward. Another sister had dropped by the church to donate some games – which Jenna volunteered to take home. I’m not really certain how that came about but we did end up with them.
Thursday night Jenna’s Sunday
School teacher dropped off a candy filled sock. Jenna added the small sock to our fireplace; she said it would
be for Bonnie.
It turned out to be a really nice
Christmas. Each of us had three gifts
beneath the tree plus the two games we dubbed from Santa Clause. Traditionally
we will first open our socks. Jenna
passed them out one at a time. I noticed
my sock was bulkier than it had been before I had gone to bed. Gloves, toffee, a chocolate orange and a
notebook had been added to what I had already put in.
We each ended up with chocolate oranges – though Roland’s was dark while Jenna and I both received milk. Roland also had sugar free chocolates and a McDonald’s card. Jenna and I both received peppermint bark which Roland doesn’t seem to care for all that much.
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| me doing an elf jig while singing a Christmas carol |
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| Bonnie's stocking |
After the gifts were open we watched
Light the World here. I like
watching the virtual recording as opposed to seeing it in person – which I think
I’ve only done
once. Watching so many faces (and not
just doll-sized figures on the stage) from the comfort of my couch was so much
better than going downtown Salt Lake. While I listened to the music, I filled
out this Christmas themed paper.
Afterward we played Mormon-opoly (one of the
two games from Santa) It seems like a good theme for the transition from Book
of Mormon, Christmas, and the Come Follow Me program which starts the Doctrine
and Covenants. The properties start at
the New Testament (Bethlehem, Gathsemane), Book of Mormon (Zarahemla,
Jeruselem) and church history (three places in New York, Nauvoo, Illinois and
Kirkland Ohio and the progression of the church) also included are four
newspapers instead of four railroads, “faith” and “bishop’s storehouse” instead of “chance” and “community
chest”, and “spiritual
darkeness” instead of “jail”.
I like reading the information on the
properties for example “Fayetteville
Township, New York” says
·
The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized here on April 6,
1830.
·
The
first conference was held here on June 9, 1830.
·
Where
the Book of Mormon translation was completed.
Temple
Square:
·
The
Temple Square Mission began in 1875.
·
Home
of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, which held its
first broadcast on July 15, 1929.
Some of them offer scriptures to read while the
game is being played. Bishop’s Storehouse and Faith cards also include scriptures at the end of each
direction. For example I had to pick a
property to donate to charity and then I was sent to spiritual darkness the
next round. Jenna had passed go five
times before I would make it around the board once. And they made me the banker and all of the
money and cards stuck together which added more time to the game. When I landed on Roland’s properties for the umpteenth time I forfeited the game and so Jenna
declared Roland the winner.
Jenna
took Bonnie for a walk while Roland and I ate an early lunch. She had returned after only a few minutes as
it had started raining and Bonnie doesn’t like the
rain. It was raining for most of the day and into the night. It is still raining.
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| how our tree looked Christmas morning |
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| shirt received on Christmas - the only unwrapped gift beneath the tree pictured: a chicken with the caption keeping it rural. Also got matching socks with roosters with the caption: rise and shine (pictured below) |
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| Roland sent this doll to his mom and we got to watch her open it |
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| This was taken later in the night; played our last game - not a new one |
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