We had a very nice last day of 2011. We went to breakfast at what looks like a hole-in-the-wall bagel shop that seems to be packed with customers buying bagels and eating breakfast. A week or so ago I had noticed that it was very busy and suggested we start the last day of 2011 eating out. As we parked the car we noticed these four egrets cruising the parking lot looking for their breakfast. Mary mentioned that they looked something like hadedahs that were everywhere in South Africa. They have the same eating motion but of course they are white instead of iridescent black and they are very quiet where hadedahs are very loud. So it was a stretch but it still brought them to mind.

 

The next major action of our day was taking down Christmas and packing it away for the year. The table where the Christmas tree resided became the base for our wireless picture frame that we got for Christmas. As I was looking at the picture I realized that I had caught the two poinsettias branches that had been broken off the main plant and put in a vase in the mirror so there is a hint of Christmas still in the room.

In the evening we went over to the mission home and joined three other couples and the Andersons in a nice dinner and a lot of good conversation. We left at about 8:00 and then somehow stayed awake long enough to welcome in the new year and then thankfully go to sleep.

2011 was a good year and we are happy that we got to spend part of it here in the mission field. We look forward to a full year of service in 2012 by inviting others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end.

We are winning…