Hi Family and Friends,We had a fun, busy week celebrating Christmas with our Mission, our Branch and starting off the year with a baptism. We're glad all the holiday celebrating is over and we're ready to get back to work. Thank you again for all of you who sent cards, letters, phone calls, and your love our way. We feel more blessed than we deserve. I have included a letter with pictures of our Mission Christmas party and the baptism. I hope you enjoy reading and looking at the pictures. Love you all!
Love,
The Frosts
January 8, 2012
Dear Family and Friends,
Christmas is finally over here in Russia and we can move on to having a great 2012! With having two dates to celebrate Christmas it feels like it goes on and on, but we had a great time celebrating with our missionaries, our Branch members and our friends and family over the phone. We really do love you all and thank you for all the Christmas Cards, Christmas wishes and the love that you sent.
This last week we had our Mission Christmas Party. Norm and I flew to Moscow a few days early so we could help the Woolleys make all the food for the party. It’s a big job and everything had to be made ahead of time and then hauled over to a building that is about an hour away from the Woolleys home. Nothing is ever convenient around here. But it all turned out well and I think we got everyone full and happy. The best part about the party is watching the missionaries all interact with each other. This is the only time during the year that they all get to be together and they love to talk with their old companions and just have fun. They played dodge ball – even Norm and I got into that a little – we had skits, presents swap, lunch, a cool history presentation on all the areas where we serve in our Mission, talks by President and Sister Woolley, we watched the movie “17 Miracles”, had an ice cream sundae bar and then one district at a time left to catch the bus or train to go home. We went on the overnight train with our missionaries, but we were all so tired that we got on the train and all went right to sleep, no games this time. We got into Voronezh at 7:30 in the morning, came home and showered, put in some laundry and then went right back to sleep. We are getting older and older with every trip we make – it’s just about killing us and we need longer and more frequent naps, but we’re still loving everything we do.
We love our missionaries so much, they are so fun, hardworking, obedient and just plain great! Best mission ever!
We had our first baptism for the year on Saturday. A cute little 11 year old boy who’s mother and grandmother are members, his grandfather was baptized two weeks ago and now we’re just waiting for his father to make the commitment. He’s a darling kid who speaks a little English and really knows the Gospel well. Right after the baptism we had a Christmas program and then a lunch at the Branch. It was Christmas Day in Russia! The missionaries did a great job singing and helping out with the program.
We started off the year with a great week and we’re looking forward to another wonderful year – six months of those being spent here in Russia. We love you all, wish you a great new year and send all our love.
Love,
The Frosts
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