This week on Monday Elders Allred, Ewell and Smith put up the office Christmas tree. They had a fun time doing this and there was only three legs for the tree, so we had to do some inventive work to get it to stand straight, then we found another leg but it was shorter than the rest, interesting, but it is Madagascar. The next picture is of Sister Cornelius by the finished tree. We haven't had a lot of rain this week, we think Madagascar is in a drought like Southern Utah. We have been praying for rain for here and there. It has been hot here all week. We planted a small garden of tomatoes and corn, the tomato plants are huge, but no tomatoes on them yet. The corn stalks aren't very tall but we have a lot of corn coming on. It will be interesting to see how well it does. The next picture is of a Muslim Mosque across from a lake that used to be covered with green plants. The people get into the lake, cut the plants ou,t and feed them to their cows. We drive by this place about every week when we go shopping and have watched them cutting the plants and hauling them off in hand pulled carts. We need to get a picture of that. It seems like we never have our camera with us when we need it. Next week will be very busy for us with auditors, meals, Zone Conference, and saying goodbye to the Grays our Humanitarian couple. We are having our office Christmas party on Monday, Zone Conference on Tuesday, a farewell dinner on Wednesday, and the Grays depart Thursday.

We send our love to all of you and hope you have a wonderful week.

Elder & Sister Cornelius