Oh, the blessings of serving a senior mission in New York! The December senior activity in our mission is generally a memorable one we understand and this surely satisfied our expectations...and our pallets!
(It's been one week since this event, but our lives have been so busy with mission activities, there was no time until now to write about it! Our ward duties, our regular Institute teaching assignments and pulling off an hour-long Christmas program involving half the mission December 9 and another program on December 16 have kept us going. The Mission Christmas Conferences included organizing musical numbers - quartets, trios and a solo, readers, narrator, choir numbers, string players, etc. - all without a rehearsal! Things like color-coding parts, printing scripts, stapling music, assembling folders, mailing soloist's music, telephoning, praying ...and beginning the cycle over again has been the norm for the last two weeks. Then...yesterday's presentation turned out wonderfully well! It was truly like a group "testimony" set to slides and music. That's how things work in this Church when the Spirit is invited to be present. Those in charge of the food, the decorations, and just everything did such a magnificant job. President and Sister Bennion are perfect leaders. It was a memorable event for our young missionaries.)
Now, before the food gets cold...
Shrimp and scallops with rice and corn risotto, a lovely green salad for an appetizer and cheesecake for dessert was our choice, but gourmet everything was the order of the day at Sardi's famous restaurant on west 44th street right in the middle of Manhattan.
This "upscale" senior outing was planned and organized by the upscale Elder and Sister Smith, who left individual favors at our dinner table - hot chocolate mugs of New York skylines filled with candies:-) Thank you Smiths...and now we're all off to Radio City Music Hall for the Christmas Spectacular.
2 comments:
Oh. My. Gosh. An upscale restaurant in Manhatten? Are you sure your on a mission?! :0
Seeing those wonderful couple missionaries almost makes tears come to my eyes, because I love the service they (we) perform.
We want to share with your readers that the program yesterday at the first zone mission Christmas dinner and program for half of our mission was so beautifully done. We would never have guessed that it was unrehearsed. A highlight was Elder dePaula's beautiful solo, Oh Holy Night,accompanied by Sister dePaula. Our mission is blessed to have them and their talents when it comes to the Fine Arts, teaching and giving. On a personal note, we always enjoy spending time with you two! Thanks for the Sardi post and picture. We hope you'll have the merriest Christmas ever.
Elder and Sister West
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