Christmas in Australia
When we met with President Wi Repa as we left Perth and headed to Karratha, we asked him what would he like us to do. He responded take good care of your young missionaries and make sure they have a good Christmas. There wasn’t a lot of service we could do around town because everyone is out of town so we focused on the 4 elders in our district, the Pilbara District.
Christmas eve daytime we had a district meeting and the 2 elders from Port Hedlund were here. After the meeting was over we ran to the bakery to pick up the bread for the day and then we jumped into Christmas eve activities. First, we made gingerbread houses. This is no small task in Australia because they do not have cute little kits at Walmart. Elder Darton and I made all the walls and roofs for the gingerbread houses. Now, we had never done this before so I can’t say they were the greatest, in fact one of our walls was cracked when we started and then one of the roof pieces cracked as we were trying to assemble. The elders from Port Hedlund did an amazing job and I will attach pictures. We then ate the typical Stobbe family Christmas eve buffet but there was nothing typical about it. In our family we let everyone chose their favorite food item and that creates the menu. This year the Pilbara District family buffet consisted of Chop Suey, Rice, Guacamole and chips, unfuneral potatoes (because they looked and tasted nothing like funeral potatoes), ham, monkey bread, baklava and a little bit of lemon cheesecake.
Normally, we have a nice looking buffet layed out on a counter with a few Christmas decorations interspersed. This years had a few dishes in the kitchen, a few in the family room, a few on a counter in the dining room and a lot of Gingerbread house decorations scattered all over.
After dinner we went into the backyard because we thought it would be fun to show them the Mentos and Diet Cole geiser. The experiment was a total flop. We think all products are not created equal here in Australia. Everything seems to be just a little different. It was totally fine though because they all ended up trying to remove a dead palm frawn from the palm tree in the back yard, swinging on it, pulling it etc. until it finally came down. All in all it was a very fun day/night and I hope everyone enjoyed themselves.
Christmas Day
We hosted a dinner for the district that was the same 4 elders we had on Christmas eve but also another senior couple that serve in Port Hedlund. We had Turkey, Mashed Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, brisket, peas, stuffing and chocolate cherry brownies for dessert.
This is the condition of the beaters. HAHA
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