Letter dated 24Dec2012

[Dear friends and family, as always, we were thrilled to receive this letter from Weston this morning! We hope that you are all happy and well and enjoying this beautiful Christmas season! If any of you have any messages for Weston, we will be talking to him TOMORROW(!!) and we could pass any message that you may have along to our missionary son. Have a blessed Christmas during His day! Love, Weston's editor - BWS] Dearest Family, Happy Christmas! I´m so happy that the family is all safe and together right now. I don´t have to imagine how the house is, because I know it´s warm and welcoming and Christmas is definitely in the air. I was glad to see that I had many notes to read and that you didn't wait to talk to me tomorrow! Each message was super great and I´m excited to talk about a bunch of things tomorrow. I really do hope that it will be the highlight of the day for all of us. I guarantee nothing but I promise that it will be the best Christmas gift I´ll be receiving! As soon as the post office gets back to work after all of this holiday season and gives me the package, I´ll let you know. Thanks for getting that all together. I am, without a doubt, going to freak out when I get it and just be incredibly excited for the rest of the day! I can´t wait! Just to give you a heads up, we are going to be eating at the same member´s house whom we ate with on Thanksgiving and they have several computers and we have plans to sign onto our Skypes at 4:00pm here in Spain, so that´ll be around 10:00am for you all. We might get one a bit earlier, depending, so if you start waiting at 3:30, that would be splendid! Now, just thinking, would it be possible to have the computer set up in the piano room and get a tour of how everything looks? I hope the connection will be fine, but I would love that! Also, I want to see some presents get opened! That would be fantastic! But hey, I think that it´s time for some legit Christmas miracles that I've seen during this past week. One day I went to open a new bag of bread and I was happy to see two heels at the front end of the loaf! A true Christmas miracle! Okay, here´s another one. We have been having a problem with a family that we teach because they have to work on Sunday mornings now but we've been trying to arrange different things to get the daughter to come to church, but all of our attempts were unsuccessful... but this week we visited the family of a recent convert, Meyling, and we somehow mentioned the name of the other family. It turned out that they knew them very well and I was just sitting there, unable to say much of anything for a few seconds because I was literally awed by the experience. We asked the family if they could walk to the other family's house on Sunday mornings and pick up the daughter and bring her to church and they said that it would not be a problem. That, my family, was a Christmas miracle if I ever saw one! Happy Christmas, Harry! Hope you enjoy the Grinch tonight! I love you all! Élder Xander Weston Schindler P.S. We have to go back, Kate... to the north pole!