Thanksgiving

This year we told our children that we didn't want or need anything for Christmas. Last year as we were at the Mission Home, we all worked on packages for the missionaries who would not receive any presents or anything from home for Christmas.  I'm sure each mission has missionaries who are so far away or whose parents are not financially able to send anything - so they get nothing.  This year we asked our children to take the money they would have spent on us and do something for either the missionaries in their own area, or for our missionaries who would not receive anything. They all responded wonderfully!  We especially wanted for our children and grandchildren to have the missionary experience of serving others.  Layne and Aaron and family sent us money, which we added to our money and bought ten $20.00 Walmart Gift cards and ten $10.00 Subway gift cards. This worked out well, since the gift cards purchased in the USA do not work in Canada.

(I forgot to take a picture, so this was taken  by Sister Cannon with her phone... kind of blurry... and she added a thank you note.  Then Misty and Shelli bought a TON of stuff and mailed it to the US Post office box we use:

Finally, Chad & family and Lindsay and family went to Brooke's home for Thanksgiving. They used one day to put together lots of stockings for the missionaries. They went to the dollar store and purchased many things to put into the stockings. Then they put the piles around the family room and each child got to fill one stocking:

All then kids even sat down and made a card to put into each stocking:

They made 10 stockings for elders and 2 for sisters:

The kids really had a good time and the stockings turned out so darling!!!  

Front: Keely Mahaffey, Austin Monroe, Devon Monroe, Colby Sanders.

Couch: Sydney Mahaffey, Landon Mahaffey holding Annalese Mahaffey, Tanner Monroe holding Cambria Sanders, Kaden Monroe holding Ashlyn Monroe, and Trevor Monroe.

Thank you to our wonderful family for helping the missionaries in our mission who would not receive anything for Christmas!