Yesterday we went to the next meeting with Emma's leader Traci Nuttal and the other delegates in her group. We met in the Auditorium of the Vet hospital by the U. It was fun to find out that Traci is the mother-in-law of Janette Tilby Nuttal who used to live in our ward, it sure is a small world.

We were instructed on things that we should be doing.  We need to work on getting Emma's passport, filling out the health forms and continuing our fundraising.  One mother in our group is sending 2 kids this year and has sent one of them in the past so we listened to her ideas on raising money.  They did a dance earning about $2000. They have entered as many contests as possible and her son won one of the essay writing contests. 

Emma was also given some homework (she wasn't too happy about that:). She has to study up on our government and familiarize herself with the government officials who serve our country.  She also has to do project fair presentation where she will choose something from France or London that she is interested in and learn everything about it and then present it to our delegation.

By the way, Gideon, Emma's 2 year old brother is taking all these pictures.  We had to give him something to so he wasn't such a distraction.  Not sure that this was the best thing;)

So then we left with renewed confidence and LOTS to do. Here is Emma outside the building.  She just had to climb this mountain of snow.

ALSO, today we had another donation from Ryan and Shelly, $25. ( $4770 to go)THANK YOU RYAN AND SHELLY!!

OH!! and we got 2 more people for flags, that's $80 ( $4690 to go).

And I forgot to mention that Cindy and Rob gave her two large garbage sacks of aluminum cans at our Thanksgiving Party and on Christmas Grandma brought her two small bags also.  We just need to take them in and see what we can get.  EVERY PENNY COUNTS!

WE ARE SO GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE SUPPORT.  SO MANY PEOPLE WANT TO HELP AND THERE ARE SO MANY WAYS TO DO IT!!