Barrett's email - Monday, December 19th



The stage where we had our christmas show

The 'chapel' of the my new branch building. It divides in half for priesthood and relief society with a metal garage-type door from the ceiling

Ice skating on Red Square

the Christmas tree

Cheburashka ice skating

 and curling

What a week! First of all I got transferred. I am now in the south zone on the metro stop 'universitet'. They only have a branch down here. There were only about 40 members at church, and only 2 hours, sacrament and priestood/relief society. It was new.

Did I tell you I opened my package?!?! Holy Cow! it was incredible! Thank you so much for everything. I love all the cards. I opened everything but the stocking and the pictures. I'm saving those for Christmas morning. I made the muffins and took them over to a members house for my last visit before transfers. They loved them.

Last week the stake put on a huge christmas show. It was incredible. They had a ton of people there and professional performers, and we (the missionaries) sang "we three kings", the Sisters sang "what child is this", and we all participated in the finale "Oh, holy night". It was fantastic.

Today for P-day we went ice skating on Red Square. Holy cow, how awesome is that. It was fun. My first time iceskating, I think. I liked it a lot.

Well, Not much time left (too much time instant messaging. hehe). I can't wait to talk to you. Holy cow! Do you remember how far away this day seemed? I do.

Have a great week. Tell everyone I love them

Love you

Elder Hamp

* Barrett and I happened to be on-line at the same time when he was emailing home so we were able to email back and forth to make the arrangements for the phone call home...possible skype home.