From Elder and Sister Black's Blog:
Saturday evening, December 20th, was the branch Christmas party. For some time now the Primary and the Youth have been practicing up to present some drama productions and songs for Christmas. It was wonderful. The chapel was filled to overflowing. The primary kids sang songs and presented some readings about Christmas, then the youth took over with drama and more songs and the branch choir also helped out. It was a program that would be a credit to any ward we have at home.
Tuesday, December 23rd, we prepared all day to have the missionaries over for our Christmas Eve dinner and party. Soeur Black had the tables decorated up nicely and we had a wonderful dinner of chicken and rice. I think it was a first for many of the African elders. The elders played the keyboard and sang Christmas carols while we were finishing the dinner. Afterwards we had some little gifts for everyone and played the gift game where you can either open a present or steal one from someone else in which case they get to open another. Everyone including us enjoyed the evening.
We called at about 7:00 am the conection was pretty bad. Michael asked us to call back later. We called back later to a members home and the conection was better.
Michael finally got his Christmas package in March. He was transfered right before Christmas, and I had sent the package to Togo.
