We had Christmas Eve Hamburgers. Mike from the local Mike's Burger Barn, his wife and two of their employees came personally with their new big grill and cooked 100 hamburgers and everyone got fed in an hour. That's pretty good. Mike is not a member, nor his wife, but they are so good to all of our missionaries when they go in there to eat. He loves the missionaries and has them pictured on a tee-shirt to promote his restaurant. He gave them all a free one. It is a clean place to eat. He lived in the USA for 20 years, retired and came here to do his favorite hobby, cooking. He cooks a real good steak and has the best Loc Lak in town. Loc Lak is a Cambodian dish.
After the meal we re-enacted the Nativity and then watched the First Presidency Christmas Devotional, which I was very moved by all of the devotional. Pictured here are scenes from our Nativity. It is interesting that all the costumes, except for the sheets, are things I've collected over the years. They come from Israel, Vietnam, Indonesia, USA. So it is appropriate that it is International since Jesus Christ was born for the world!
Christmas Day we had a conference similar to a Zone conference where all the Zone leaders gave year end reports, the assistants showed the old goals and then the new goals planned with each Branch President. They then had a special movie on missionary work in Cambodia and on Christ that they created. Then talked about 3 ways that President Smedley gave to help accomplish the goals. I talked on the Nativity and picturing yourself there as a shepherd. I told them about a special experience I had testifying that the Shepherds really did see the infant Christ. Also challenged them to Build their faith like Enos did. Scott talked on miracles, obeying with exactness and locking your heart (that's if they have girlfriends back home or boyfriends). Then the missionaries had 1 1/2 hours to bear testimony. It was a great meeting. We ate Shepherd's pie, salad, ice-cream and cookies,gave gifts and they went back to proselyting. A great spirit and great meeting.
Sisters, upper left are cleaning up from Christmas Day cookie bar and the Elders are "cleaning" up the ice-cream Christmas Day. 
These are the gifts the missionaries received. I wrapped each a plaque with the word JESUS on it. You have to look at it just right to see that is what it is saying. I will post a picture of the unwrapped gift. They also got worm pills. On the left are colored pencils I wrapped for each missionary so that they could use them to do a Book of Mormon Activity on Christ by underlining 4 different subjects in each a different color. They appreciated all. We also gave them a new paper back copy of the Book of Mormon to do their activity with.
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