Christmas Devotional

That's pretty funny about the rebellion with the girls, I could totally see them all doing that, ya if I were you I would call their bluff too. Where do they even get money? How does Clara pay for gas she doesnt have a job does she? She should work at Harry and David like I did when I was 15 on the line, lol. That would be funny I could see her whining about that. lol Good stuff.

Well any who, wow that temple trip sounds way awesome, 45 worthy priesthood holders going to the temple! That's so crazy. It weird how growing up in the ward and then coming on a mission and serving in many wards and being able to attend PEC weekly, how much you learn and understand more about the church and how a ward works and all that. I've come to realize how awesome our ward is, and how strong it is. That's awesome.

Well, so this week we got to go down to Grand Junction again because we had a Christmas Devotional. So we drove down the night before and stayed the night there BUT it snowed like over a foot and we had to come down from the mountains so it was crazy! We went the long way because the fast way was over Douglas pass which is gnarly way high up its kinda like "the shelf" but two ways up then down. It was so slippery and of course we have little Toyota Corrollas, two wheel drive coming over a mountain pass, it was so gnarly. We drove like 35mph the whole time it was crazy! It ended up taking about 5 or so hours to get there. Once we got on the well travelled high way it was a little better, but still pretty bad and of course there are tons of stupid people thinking they can go fast, we saw 7 cars the had spun out and were in the ditch, it was crazy.

But the devotional was really good we talked alot about Christ of course read The Christmas story in Luke, watched a few little movies and sung alot. It was fun. President and Sister Christison, our mission president after they had received their call in 2007, but before they had to report to Denver went on a trip to Jerusalem and got to go the the Mount of Olives and so he gave a training on that and the atonement and when they were there they bought a whole bunch of olive oil and actually consecrated it there near where Christ performed the Atonement and gave every missionary a little bottle of the consecrated oil from those same trees that Jesus was amongst. It was really awesome. Its really neat to have. The whole devotional was awesome and very spiritual. we also got a knitted hat, and a Christmas CD. It was nice. Lots of work that's alot of hats to knit lol .

Well so that was the highlight for the week for sure, all the driving in the snow wasn't fun (actually it kinda was lol) but it was worth it. Rangely got dumped on with snow too about a foot or so, this morning we woke up and it was -10 out side brutal huh. Well I better get going, but I just want to tell you how grateful I am for Jesus Christ and for this wonderful season for us to recognize his birth and all he did for each of us. I love you very much!
Elder Dunn