More Christmas in Taiwan

We went Christmas Caroling with the Senior Missionary couples to the Taipei Train Station and a Hospital. Some stopped to take pictures of us and listened to the carols. We had fun passing out candy canes and missionary cards.

There was a little competition next to us in the Train Station. A group of young soccer players were next to us by the Christmas Tree, and several of them were showing off their nimble ball skills.  Hard to compete with that.

Sister Shen invited us to her Ward Christmas Party, and gave us a Christmas gift.  Her ward is located about 30 minutes from our apartment on the MRT.  Sister Shen is a dedicated Temple worker.  She was converted to the church when she was 21 and then one year later served a mission.  After her mission she taught school and is now retired. She never married, and is now 71 years old. We just couldn't say no when she invited us.  

We were sitting across from this cute family when Sister Shen started taking pictures with her IPad  The part of the evening that was unusual to us is that the Ward Christmas Party was on Sunday at 5pm. There was a program after the dinner, and then Santa arrived with a wrapped package for everyone including us.  They insisted that we each take a package.  It was cookies which we gave to the Missionaries.  We found out that the ward had been recently divided from another ward, and there is only 9 children in the new ward.