4th Quarter Report !

Well, its been a while and here is what we have been up to for the last quarter of 2025 !

We attempted to have a Halloween party at the request of one of the YA. Well, that YA did not come but we were entertained by a group of "new" friends from India and a few from China. It made for an interesting night, as trying to play games like Pictionary is more difficult with multi cultures, languages and word comprehension!

We hear we have the strongest attended institute classes in our stake and possibly the mission. We currently have a baptism in Feb from a young lady who has started to attend institute with her member boyfriend and started taking the lessons !

Our new convert Zac was the only one who came dressed up - bless him !

We were also able to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day or Bon Fire night - it is a day to celebrate the failure of Guy Fawkes trying to blow up the Parliament in the year 1605 !

November also brought the arrival of our newest grandbaby - Theo ! He is the perfect blend of Max and Hannah and we can not wait to get back and meet grandbaby #8 !

We had a fun Thanksgiving lunch with our Aberystwyth district ! I think it was only the 3rd or 4th time I've ever cooked a full turkey in my life !

Sis Higley from Hooper, Ut

We were also able to attend our last Sr Couple Retreat in the Bath area of England.

This retreat was to celebrate thanksgiving and then to enjoy the Bath Christmas Markets the next day

Our first train ride since arriving in the UK up to Bath!

Hot apple cider

Bath Abbey & Christmas Market

dinner together after a day of Christmas Market shopping !

The last day of the retreat we went to the Clifton bridge in Bristol for a group picture

They have a tunnel that leads to a lower look out of the bridge and we were up for the adventure !

DECEMBER !

To start of the month, our branch made toiletry bags for a local homeless shelter

We had our Christmas Zone conference down in Bristol- it takes us about 3.5-4 hours to get to Zone conference ! They had a couple of hours of instruction, played a round of scripture chase, did a white elephant exchange & then had lunch for all of us.

Sis Bigler from Arizona, Sis Parker from Germany (military family, so she is really american)

Sis Tekarika from Kiribati and Sis Maryam from Pakistan

Sis Nathaniel from Pakistan

The might Merthyr Zone !

white elephant games

oreo slide for the win at every party !

intense scripture chase !

This was 3 out of 7 zones, at this zone conference

We had a Christmas Eve afternoon get together with our little district with Cafe Rio salads and games !

Everyone from the US except Elder Ebreo (Philippines) & Sis Rhaharimalala from Madagascar !

Our little Christmas ! We had the elders come over for Christmas morning Apple French toast for breakfast & then met them later at a members house for a Christmas lunch.

Christmas morning out our window !

The next day was boxing day and we were able to spend a few hours at our branch presidents house with is family & a couple of YA.

The day started of with a competitive game of "football" and then lunch

And finally, some randomness -

first day of receiving snow since we have been in Wales !

our winter drives !

A fall sunset at our beach

The elders being funny at their flat inspection by having a "messy" flat-
the elder on the left "accidently" dropped his box of pamphlets right when we walked in - haha !