Monday night we held YSA Family Home Evening at the school. We showed them Mr Kruger’s Christmas and the Piano Guys great video that was made just a couple of miles from our home in Provo. Then it was time for games – the love Book of Mormon Bingo and the chocolate prizes they get for bingo. It was great to have a good turnout and everyone seems to have had lots of fun and fellowship.

The other important event in our lives yesterday was that our granddaughter Hermana McKay Pier returned from the Seattle mission. Our grandson Elder Shane Webb returned last week from Spain and was there to greet his sister. I am going to ask them if they can understand each other’s Spanish as the Castilian Spanish they speak in Spain is quite different from that spoken in Mexico! Just added a picture with all of the gang…McKay looks a little teary eyed in this one.

I was fixing lunch about an hour ago when a bird I had never seen before landed in the back yard to join the crowd of weavers and sparrows for lunch. I managed to get a couple of pictures of it eating – the chunk of bread you see got stuck on his beak and he had a hard time getting it off. A quick look at birds of South Africa turned up the fact that it is a crested barbet. I include a professional shot from the web with no bread. In looking at the pictures I do not think they show how strange and kind of ugly it is. Notice the single band of red on the tail!

The last picture is of a LilacBreasted Roller – we saw two of these flying along when we were in Botswana – or maybe Mafikeng but could not get a picture. They are very beautiful and are a blur of color when flying