Christmas Lunch with the Goodall Family

Merry Christmas! It's Christmas day and I went to Cornerstone Church for the morning service. The special thing this year is, a local family wanted to adopt me for an afternoon to spend Christmas with them. Liz actually recommended me as she said the family is pretty musical, and probably could clique pretty well with me. There are another 3 girls (an Indonesian and 2 China students) that joined the family for Christmas lunch, a pretty good combination for me to utilize my language capability.

What surprises me, the big house and the music certs of violin and cello of the family:

The parents still need some time to prepare the food, so we were in the piano room having some chit chat, playing piano and singing a few carols, and some card games. As we were having fun, appetizers were served, like dried berries/grapes, homemade chips and salmon slices. As we are called into the dining room, we were really surprised by the preparation made, I felt so blessed even before meal.

Appetizer and lunch table setup:

It's the British style Christmas meal, turkey with cranberry sauce, pigs in blankets, brussels sprouts, roast potatoes and stuffing. This is like a hyper-sized Sunday Roast, I love all of them! They even made Christmas puddings for us. I'm so amazed when they told me process of making the pudding, they started making it a days ago, chilled for a night, and kept it in the oven for the whole morning. Good stuffs always come with a high price =.=

Definitely one of the best Christmas meal ever:

"Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come."
-Mark 13:33-

Thank You Thank You Thank you Lord for blessing me to spend Christmas lunch with this family. Other than the good food and fellowship, I actually see another side of how local families can really love each other and also other people (outsider like me). I was amazed that the father actually spend his afternoon after lunch in the garage making his wife a customized tomato collector for gardening. It's not easy to love, but it's really overwhelming to be loved, Amen.