Saturday Dec. 27 was our Branch Christmas Party. You are probably wondering why it was after Dec. 25, our traditional celebration of Christmas. The answer is because they don't celebrate Christmas here until January 7. It was a nice evening, and the whole branch participated. Each auxiliary either presented a skit, sang, or danced. The young single adults did a traditional Russian song and dance, and the missionaries were asked to sing an American Christmas song. After all the missionaries had performed, the branch gave each of us a gift of cookies and candies, and a Christmas hat. I am including pictures so you can see the hats we had to wear! Pretty funny.
