Stories: The Perfect Christmas
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| The Christmas I spent in Iwamizawa in 1979 was as good as it gets. About a week before Christmas, Elder Jensen and I were walking back to our apartment when we came upon a pine tree which had been struck by a car and knocked down. It was in three pieces. The top piece was five feet long--the perfect size for a Christmas tree for our apartment. We dragged the tree home and realized it was too wide for our small apartment. We had to take all the branches off one side of the tree and set it flush against the wall. We decorated the tree with paper chains, etc. On Christmas Eve I stayed awake until Elder Jensen and the other two missionaries were asleep. Then I got up and filled four stockings with candy and fruit I bought at the store and kept hidden and placed the stockings under the tree. Imagine the surprise when the missionaries got up and saw that Santa Claus had visited our apartment. That evening both sets of missionaries had a baptism scheduled. In the afternoon we went to the Church, which was a little house converted into a chuch. The font was a wooden box which would not fit inside the Church. To baptize someone, you would climb out a back window into the wooden box sitting on the ground outside, just below the window. It was hard to get enough warm water into the box to perform the baptism before it leaked out. On Christmas evening the baptsim preparations were completed and our two investigators received baptism. The Spirit was so strong during the service, and I remember how happy I felt. I have never had a better Christmas! |
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