It Was Warm...

Remember how I said it was warm here with no snow?......The 26th of Dezember 2014, the temperature dropped... and the Earth was covered in a white blanket. Anyways and now it is absolutely freezing and absolutely beautiful to be a missionary. 

I was so grateful to call you all this past week and see all of your amazing faces:) I had such a great time and wished I could have answered all of your questions, but I had a great time with the time we had. I can honestly say, this was the greatest Christmas I have ever had! I love the members, and they all took such good care of this week. On Monday, we were with Family Aeschbacher eating Fondue, Wednesday we were at Family Harder (a vegian/health health family) eating falsch fleisch, then Family Müller... Oh I love Family Müller! They have grown to become my absolute favorite Family. They have the two real cute daughters that said Hi to you on Skype;) They fed us breakfast, gave us Swiss shirts, feed us a huge 3000 course dinner, absolutlely amazing with salad, soup, chicken, potatoes, fruit salad, and so much more. We also played Settlers of Catan! I was almost in tears knowing how much they had sacrificed for us. 

There was one thing though that touched me the most that Christmas day. As it was getting late, we all gathered together and sang around the christmas tree with lit candles:) We sang and we were all given a chocolate ornament to hang on the tree. We went around one by one, hanging these chocolate ornaments and each was a gift. Each was a gift of Jesus, we would say, this next week I will give Jesus the gift of.. Loving everyone... forgiving more... being a better missionaries... having Him engraven on our heart. It was incredibly beautiful and touched me. That is the true meaning of Christmas. It's not about the gifts we recieve, but the gifts we give to Jesus. What will you give Him? Think about it:)

On Friday we went to the Temple, Saturday we had Raclette with the Schültz. Sunday was my birthday:) What a wonderful day as well. At Church everyone was wishing me a happy birthday and then afterwards we went to a Weniger Active famile. We traveled by train, then 45 minutes in a wild, freezing Snow storm. We ate more Raclette and had a wonderful time together. This week was the greatest week:) I am so greatful. I can feel the love of everyone and especially the love my Savior has for me. I felt it so strongly, I hope you did too. I wish you a Happy New Year's and I love you all!

Love,


Elder Annen