It's been a little over 2 weeks since my last blog. It's been very busy and things have happened. My sweet mamma, 84, passed away peacefully on December 19, 2016. She lived a long life, but it was a difficult long life. She struggled with drug addiction, and had a very difficult marriage for 57 years. But in spite of it all, she was loved by all her knew her, or for that matter, if you just met her, you fell in love with her. She was loving and kind, and had a quick wit like no other. She had a wonderful sense of humor, which I'd like to think I got from her!! I am happy she passed away peacefully, and that she is reunited with her parents and siblings, and her baby boy, Matthew Mark, who died a day after he was born. I was 3 years old at the time.
Here are some highlights of the past few weeks:
Sister Treasure hosted a cookie exchange for the Senior Sisters....
Here we all are surrounding the goodies....
Sister Peless,,.Michigan..Sister Boyer,,,Idaho...Sister Treasure....Washington....Sister Christensen.....South Jordan, Utah.....Sister Metallo.....Springville, Utah....Sister Tefteller....Highland, Utah....Sister Ross....Arizona....Sister Carpenter....Arizona
Elder Tefteller and I hosted a Christmas FHE at our home. We served dinner, and had a white elephant exchange afterwards....
Sister Christensen was delighted with her "Elephant"..
Sister Ross cheated.....she got the gift they gave.....
Elder Ross not so excited with his reindeer slippers....
Elder Dance thought he got some powder but it turned out to be a necklace....
Christmas ornaments for Elder Metallo with Sister Johnson looking on....
Elder Peless, aka, Scrooge, according to him, but not really with his stuffed animal....
Everyone kept taking Sister Treasures gifts from her...
Elder Tefteller got a Christmas tie that someone stole from him....but I got it back for him....
Sister Fuller looking at a game Elder Fuller got....
Sister Fuller got a Bacon Calendar. She was so excited....noone dared take it from her!!!
I wonder what Sister Johnson got, the Dances looking on....
I was rather amused with the way they were both sitting...with their arms folded!!! Elder Boyer and Elder Treasure....
As you can see, it's a tight squeeze but we have so much fun...when President Cato and his wife came to talk to us about their conversion, we had 28 people packed in our apartment.
Christmas from the Bountiful Cengiz.....I love it......Belle is the best!!!
Elder Tefteller taking dinner into the VC to 2 of our ward Sister Missionaries.
Coming out with an empty tray!
I bought some material for a quilt, and Paula Kay said she would make us a quilt. I told her I didn't need it until next year when we went home.....boy did she surprise us when we got this in the mail.....she even made pillow cases to match. She is amazing.....The blue gingham is on the back of the quilt.
She even made us one of her Christmas Quilts......she's the best!!!
Always a fun time when we get together and play games.....the Ross's....
this is what we woke up to one morning...pure ice on the windows of our car..
These fun beautiful sisters called me and asked if they could come help make cookies. They were going caroling and needed some cookies to take. I actually made the cookies before they got to our apartment, just because I can only bake one tray at a time....
but they ended up decorating them and packaging them....
they did an awesome job!!!!!
.....it's not Christmas without snowball cookies.....
...or pumpkin bread.......
We hope that your new year will be wonderful, filled with the love of our Heavenly Father and Savior.....Let's all be better this year and "Light the World!!!" We love you all so much and recognize how important each of you are to us!!!
Until next time.....read your scriptures, and be kind!!
Much Love, Elder and Sister Tefteller
