We have been so happy to have participated in Valeria's baptism on Christmas Eve morning. Valeria is a very special lady--early 30's and has a little 4 year old daughter, Elizabeth. Valeria speaks a few languages and is working on a few more. She asked Chris and I to speak at her baptism and we were honored to do it. This is the 4th time I have had to speak in church in Italian and I think I'm getting better at it. Below is Anziano Brown who baptized her and Sister Dustin and Sister Sargeant who taught her.
With Elizabeth and us after the baptism.
After the baptism was over we had a missionary Christmas Eve party with all the missionaries in our district at our apartment. We had tortellini soup and yummy buns!
After the meal we played some games then watched "Its a Wonderful Life" with Jimmy Stewart. Had lots of popcorn and Root Beer (that we found in an "American store" here--each can cost 2.50 Euro! and a box of Fruit Loops was 16 Euro!!!!) That was one of the approved movies for the mission. It was great because a few of them had never seen it before so they really enjoyed it. After that we headed over to a Senior's home to do some caroling and then to Centro Bari to carol some more. We got a bit silly when we were in downtown Bari since very few people were there. The lights were beautiful and music was playing--all American Christmas carols so we just sang with them and had a blast.
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