Hey Mom it was awesome to see you yesterday and all I wanted to do too
was just look at everyone's faces but the picture was blurry so that was
a bummer. It was my best Christmas this year too. We had a lot of fun
all day. The fun started on Christmas Eve at the Woodward/Ostlund home
and it's a big family of step-brothers and step-sisters so in total we
had 18 people there I think. Sister Woodward made poppy seed chicken
which was delicious and I'm glad we didn't take any drug test's because
we would have failed. We played a game called Acquire with Bro.
Woodward before dinner and played Ninja and foosball after dinner.
Christmas morning we went over to the Summer's home to open gifts and
then went to 7-11 for Christmas breakfast haha. A couple of donuts and
hot chocolate is what I got. The Christmas conference was special as
Elder and Sister Olsen, the VC directors are going home soon so they
said their goodbyes. We watched "Elf" and I don't think I've ever
laughed at a movie so hard in my whole life! I got to sing "Santa Claus
is Comin to Town", "Joy to the World", and do the haka for the lunch
program. It was good. Then we went down to the Carter's home and I
called you. After that we had dinner and kinda sat around and played
with the kids for a bit. Bro. Carter and his youngest were sick so they
stayed downstairs as us and the other guests were upstairs. Sis.
Carter had quite the time trying to take care of us all so we decided to
relieve her of some unnecessary stress and we went back to the Summers.
We had Chinese food and Diet Coke while enjoying our time there.
Brendan and I played "Saratoga"(Stratego) together and I won, twice.
Then I played Isabelle and beat her once. Yeah I've got a great
military mind, I can beat a 13 and a 9 year old in Stratego. I'm the
next Ender Wiggin. Anyway that put a cap on our night. Today we woke
up to snow!...er slush falling from the sky. But it was white! It was
my first snowfall in DC and I'm suuuuuuuuuuuper cold because of it. We
visited the National Gallery of Art for a bit and so Michaelangelo's
David Apollo that
is there. We also visited the American History Museum and toured
pretty much everything in there. A lot of it is closed for renovation
to be opened in
October 2015.
But the best exhibit I thought was the "Star-Spangled Banner" with the
flag that flew over Fort McHenry that inspired Francis Scott Key to
write the song. It was really cool and stirred lots of patriotic
feelings.
Going back to Sunday
we had K and S at church along with K's girlfriend N.
They are out of town in Pennsylvania but it was so fantastic to get
them at church and even better that night we went to the temple with
them! They marveled at the beautiful Christmas lights surrounding the
even more beautiful temple. It was fantastic and really helped them
out. Can't wait til they get back so we can see them again!
Looks
like one really awesome recent convert in this ward, J M,
will be moving to Richmond. He found a better job with better pay there
and cheaper cost of living so he's gonna move there. He is amazing and
his testimony is so solid so I know he'll do even better there than he
is here.
As
the Christmas season comes to a close I look forward to the new year.
My goal is to have 2013 be the best year in my whole life so far. Even
better than the awesome year of 2012. I know that the Lord will extend
his blessings to me upon my faithfulness and obedience to his words
which are written by our beloved prophets and inspired leaders. I look
to make my time here worthwhile not only to myself, but to others, who
are the most important benefactor of my service.
I love you Mom! To the edge, Elder Schoemig
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