12/25/25 Feliz Navidad

Hello all!

Obviously P-day was pushed back to Christmas day. This last week and a half was fun. Obviously waiting a little longer for a rest was tiring but I made the most of it.
First big events was last Thursday where we had a trip to the temple with half the mission (the mission is a little too big to go all together). This was also my second time inside the Oakland temple and I got to see more of the interior and it was all beautiful. My favorite was as usual the chandelier in the Celestial room. Also the bus ride with 1/4 of mission (1/2 split among 2 busses) was chaos with half a dozen conversations happening simultaneously.
The next day we had a movie night with the Quinns everybody got to vote on the Christmas movie we were to watch, Home Alone won by a landslide. It was a relaxing and fun night. We had a blast.
Of course not all sunshine and rainbows as the rain from Washington has made it down to here so quite drenched I have become. This weather has pushed us to walk more often then bike. But all is well then ends well.
And then Christmas eve a fairly regular day except for a bike crash. I took a wet turn too tight my bike went one way and my body went another. I slid a foot or two across the asphalt... it hurt, but only minor scrapes and bruises hopefully nothing broken.
Today (Christmas) was lots of fun. We ate breakfast with the Santa rosa missionaries and I overate and then kicked back and relaxed for the majority of the day then, we had a Dinner with a Ward member where I overate again... I will exercise off all the Christmas stuff this next week.

Merry Christmas,
Elder Hsu 

Pics-
1: rainy night
2-4: dew at the temple gardens

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