Yes Christmas is in December, and apologies that it has taken us so long to get the Christmas pictures up!
We've had to organize, sort, and caption them all (several hundred! Get excited parents!!!). There were three different locations for Christmas celebrations in the AL Birmingham Mission: Birmingham, Bessemer, and Huntsville. We've got great coverage of the Birmingham and Bessemer celebrations. But there were some…um…technical difficulties with Huntsville. So we only have a few from Huntsville.
Sorry Sorry Sorry!! (I have word from the Mission Presidency that they will make this up with more coverage of the Tupelo and Huntsville Zone Conferences!)
So without further ado, I present the Christmas Picture Slideshows (click on "Read More" below):
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
dawned cold and bright as missionaries from around the mission drove for hours
to get to the Birmingham Temple for the first of eight sessions between Tuesday and Friday. Although cold outside, the warmth of The
Lord’s House filled each of the missionaries of the Alabama Birmingham Mission
as they performed those works of great eternal significance. Temple Ordinance Workers willingly opened the
temple and served during the day – in a temple where most sessions are held at
night – in addition to their regular assignments. Missionaries emerge with joy and replenished
energy to further the work to which they have been called.
On Tuesday, November 26, 2013,
thirty-eight (38) newly assigned missionaries arrived from the Provo, UT
Missionary Training Center. They
constituted the largest group to ever arrive and expanded the total mission population
to nearly 300.
