Christmas
Everyone is asking me about Christmas. We started decorating our house yesterday. We have a lot of Santas that my wife inherited from her mother.
At church, I played the part of a wiseman in the nativity scene. The scene shows the birth of Jesus, and the angels, wisemen, and shepherds that visited Him. We were all volunteers from parts of the church. Last night the Mary was from Kazakhstan and invited friends and family who passed by to sit down and have their pictures taken with us if they had a camera. Almost every Russian speaking family had a camera.The nativity scene was outside the church. The first night it was in the parking lot, but almost nobody came. The next night we moved it next to the other Christmas events.
Inside the auditorium there was a musical, a play that told a story with songs.
Another booth ouside allowed children to dress as shepherds, wisemen, or angels and have their picture taken and then given to them. We had a table where people could have some hot chili to eat in the cold and then the gymnasium/high school room was filled with desserts where people could sit and eat at tables while musicians sang.