Holidays in the Alps
Thanksgiving and Christmas on a mission are very special, indeed. We've made a lot of new Facebook friends, several of which are senior couples who have since been released. One, in fact, Kathey Mackay, is pretty much directly responsible for the fact that I own a pair of lederhosen. I was hesitant, anticipating untold ridicule from our children, but she challenged me openly, posting, "Oh, the worst thing that can happen to you is that somebody will hand you a tuba!" The inevitable result: A more somber conclusion is the overall impression I get that while the couples are overjoyed to be reunited with their families (as we certainly will be), they also sorely miss the friends and places they experienced on their missions. Leesa and I have been so completely accepted by the members of the Freiburg ward, the young missionaries, the other senior couples in the mission, and both our mission presidents and their wives, that we are led to two in...