The Week of Christmas

There are no classes for a couple of weeks so we are getting to know the area.  We went the the Temple a couple of days before Christmas, we drove to a Chapel in Queens to park our car then took the subway to Manhattan.  I had to get a picture of Elder Bushman on the train!  We felt out of our element this first time, but it will be easy-peasy from now on!!  We will work in the Temple twice a month starting in January.

We are running into so many people we have connections with, it's amazing!! The first one in the Temple was a friend who was in my ward growing up in Heber City, Nancy Daybell, then we saw these dear friends from Abilene, the Whites!!  We had a good visit with them and had lunch after the temple session.

I didn't get any Christmasy pictures for Christmas Day, but the weather was rather balmy for Dec. in New York!  Our apt. got so warm I had to open the door!!  We had all the missionaries in our district over for breakfast which was really nice, they're a great group of young people, doing lots of good things.  We had fun watching the little girls back home opening their presents.  Technology is a wonderful blessing.

The day after Christmas we went to the far eastern end of Long Island, Montauk Point.  This is the lighthouse there, I love the ocean and it was fun to see it all around.  Off to the right is the Atlantic Ocean and to the left is Long Island Sound.  It was a fun excursion, it's about 2 hours from us.  To get there you have to go through the Hamptons, it's a very picturesque area, you'll have to take my word for it since I didn't take pictures there!

The camera doesn't pick it up, but you can easily see Connecticut from here.

We had to do a selfie!

This was some kind of Manta Ray that had washed up on the shore.