We just came from a most amazing Christmas Program sponsored by the Kirtland Stake.  They had special instrumental numbers, a choir, organ and it was so very nice.  Of course we think that the star of our show was our own Sister Wygant from the Provo area.  She plays the flute like no other.  They have an arts college here in Mentor so there are a lot of talented young people and that showed tonight.  We wished it could have gone on for longer.  With the nativities, and special programs like this we are loving this Christmas season.  So blessed to be here. We have also had some special groups come into the Center and perform and that adds to the spirit of Christmas.
Since we are soon leaving here we had the two couples that were with us in the MTC over for dinner Friday night.  We then went down to the center for a program and came back here to play games. It is so good to be able to spend time together and we just love being together sharing silly stories, special moments, etc from our families.  If your ears were ringing we were probably talking about you.
Saturday we were invited to Elder and Sister Riches for dinner. The Jones are coming from Johnson Farm and we are going out, and the Riches served there for 7 1/2 months so we had lots to talk about.  Was another special evening.  We have also been packing and have most things ready to just put into the car tomorrow.  Will do a shift tomorrow afternoon at the center and then pull out for Garrettsville Tuesday morning. 
We started that new adventure today.  We drove to Garrettsville to the apartment and cased it out, went on down to Rootstown for church, came back to the apartment for lunch and then served the afternoon at the Johnson Home in Hiram.  Put over 100 miles on our car today and even drove 55 part of the way.  That is new for us....  The ward was great, lots of new friendly people.  I think we will love it.  We were handed a loaf of warm bread from the sister that does the sacrament bread and that will be a weekly thing.  Yummmm.....  Dan also found a cousin.... a brother Lisonbee that is a descendant of Coker Lisonbee the same as us.  What a small world! We went to the home and decided to do a bit of studying on our tour dialogue and in walked a sister from Utah, come for a tour.  Her name was even Annette so we hit it off right from the start.  So our first day at the Johnson Home we did a tour.  In fact that was the only one for the whole day.  It was so fun and we felt good about it all.  Yes, we will keep studying and get better but it was great.  Now we have that first time over with and know we can do it.  We came home and went to the program and are finally home for the evening and tired after a really very nice day.  Yeh....
Didn't take time for pictures this week, sorry.... but next week we will share some of our new things with you. We can hardly wait to get ALL unpacked and organized to hopefully find the things we think we brought with us.  Hope everyone has a great week.... remember we LOVE you all....