"All I want for Christmas --- Grand babies with 2 front teeth!"

It is incredible how fast 5 days can pass by.

Here is a look at some of our Christmas highlights:

We were so busy chasing after the grands that we didn't get nearly as many photos as we should have.  The ones we took of the teens were all too dark and blurry (such a bummer).

But Christmas was a wonderful time spent with family and friends.  

We sang Christmas carols, ate pie, played games, watched Christmas videos, ate pie, shared gifts, 

ate more pie, and cleaned up the whole mess.

If you happen to be in the neighborhood,
 stop in for a slice of pie!

From Boy to Man

 I sent this first photo to Joshua last week and this is the response I received:

2011@ Home

"Wow my goodness, I looked at that picture of Noelle and I, and it was really weird. I am soooo not that boy anymore. I don´t even remember being him. That´s so weird. Its like it´s a different person 
I´m looking at. What they say about conversion really is true; you become a new creature in Christ. I was wondering if I could really say I am converted (and not just with a testimony), and after seeing that great change of heart, looking back a year at a past me, I really do know I have indeed tasted of that mighty change." 

Can you see that change in him!?

I comes from serving other's needs, and not always your own.  It comes from working hard, dang hard, and loving it in spite of the calluses, criticism and closed doors.  All with the hope that someone else will have that same "great change of heart" and turn to Christ.  

2012 Campina Grande, Brazil

"Testimony comes of the Holy Ghost, but Conversion comes of the Atonement. Testimony weathers the storms, and brings us to learn of Christ. 

Conversion walks out into the tempest, to bring lost sheep into the shelter." 

--Elder Joshua Farr

Missão João Pessoa

2 December 2012