Thanks fully given for abundant blessings

*First Blessing:  Another Baptism!

I was able to help teach her.  She is from Iran, had to leave her daughter behind as she is divorced from her husband and he has forbidden her to see their daughter.  Her family know, though and are pleased and interested!!!



We have to wait for the Spanish ward to finish their meetings before we can have a baptism, so we had everyone over to our house for soup and sandwiches.

Branch members (English snow birds) and Sister Chantrill

She asked President to baptize her. 

She invited a friend too!



*We found another restaurant we really like.

*We get to have wonderful missionaries over to eat dinner.

*Or we take some out to dinner.

We drove to Badajos almost 5 hours away to see 'My Turn on Earth' that the missionaries and the branch put on.  They did a great job



A member works at this restaurant and so we ate Japanese food.  Yummy.

*Another blessing....I found roses for the 'director'.

*We got to meet up with our friend from Merida.  She is amazing!

Some of the youth performed and all of them came. 

*The sisters worked so hard and it really paid off.  An inactive sister was reactivated and several more came besides investigators.

*We got to have a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with about 40 missionaries.





 

*We got to have a wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner with about 40 missionaries and the Deeres

Pies by Rod

 We had a wonderful meal and everyone contributed

 

 

 You're eating what???

 Ummmm

That turkey gets around!

 Our APs

We ate and ate and ate!
 

 

*Christmas has begun to arrive in the form of packages of love for our missionaries.

 



 

We put up decorations and felt the Christmas Spirit begin to show.

 



Our newest office elder put up the star!

 

Our wonderful Mijas Branch Family including our new members and some less active members that are trying to come back!

 They can't take the place of our own family, but we feel such love, dedication and support from them.

 My Greatest blessing this Thanksgiving is the Plan of Salvation.  My beloved Father died 2 weeks ago.  I will miss him greatly, as will the whole family. There were so many blessings through this trial, but the greatest is the knowledge that we will be together again in the due time of the Lord, and that our loving Heavenly Father always has our best interests in mind and I can never come up with a plan better than what He  has already made for me and my loved ones.