Time to Wrap Things Up?

Do you dread having a pile of presents that need wrapping? Are you short on time, and need a little extra help with that wearisome task of beautifying your gifts? Well, help is available. Sister Susan Dean has generously offered her services to assist you with that daunting task of gift wrapping. Please contact her at poohbear_6911@yahoo.com to make your appointment before time runs out. (Gifts and wrapping paper not included.)

Santa Clause is Coming to Town

All youth (and the youthful) are invited to:

Bedtime with Santa

7:00 p.m. at the church

Come in your p.j.'s for a bed time story, write a letter to Santa, make Christmas cards, craft an ornament, and get pictures with the "big guy" himself. Sure to be lots of fun!

Bring a plate of cookies to share if you can.

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Thank You!

Thank you to everyone for coming to the ward Christmas party. I hope everyone enjoyed their "journey around the world." A BIG thank you to those of you who put together booths and helped with the food that night.
Speaking of food, here is the Sweet Potato Recipe EVERYONE is asking for:

Ingredients
2 (15 ounce) cans sweet potatoes
1/4 cup orange juice
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 pinch salt
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Place sweet potatoes in a 10x6 inch shallow baking dish and pour orange juice over.
In a small bowl, combine flour, sugar, cinnamon and salt; mix together and cut in butter. Sprinkle over sweet potatoes.
Bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven, sprinkle with marshmallows and broil until browned.

The batches for the party were x4 this recipe but it should come out the same.
Enjoy!

Ward Party this Saturday

League City Ward Christmas

Dinner and Program

Saturday December 5

6:00 p.m.

at the church

We need your Help

Just a reminder that the ward Christmas party is THIS Saturday December 5th at 6:00 p.m. at the church. The theme for the night is "Light of the World" featuring Christmas celebrations from around the world. We are planning a very fun night of culture and food. Sign-up sheets have gone around the ward to give us a count of who is planning to attend, if you are planning on coming and have not let us know please e-mail me at kallie10_4@hotmail.com with the number of people in your family that will be attending, (we have only heard from a few families so far). As part of our celebrations from around the world we are going to have stations/booths featuring a specific country. We were hoping that those of you who have lived in other countries, or served as missionaries or in the military would be able to share with us those cultural celebrations. I have had only two individuals willing to help out. One from Cuba and another representing the Latino Culture. This is not hard, all you would need to do is bring some things that I'm sure you collected from that country to be displayed and either be there to tell about how Christmas is celebrated (from 6:00-6:45 p.m.) or write down (or find something from the web) something that people could read as they come to your country. You could also bring Christmas decor influenced by that country and small samples of food for people to try (but not required) If your country didn't celebrate Christmas tell us how they celebrated a different winter holiday like Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, New Year's, etc.
Here is what is needed:
1) RSVP so I know who is coming.
2) Volunteers to help cook turkey and ham, and volunteers to just warm food already prepared
3) Sign up to bring things to represent a specific country. I need to know before hand.
4)Come Saturday early to set-up your booth.
5)People to sign-up to bring your favorite dessert (if this represents another culture, all the better)
Please let me know ASAP so we can appropriately prepare.