“The celebration of Christmas helps us keep our promise to always remember Him and His gifts to us. And that remembrance creates a desire in us to give gifts to Him. He has told us what we could give Him to bring Him joy. First, we can, out of faith in Him, give a broken heart and a contrite spirit. We can repent and make sacred covenants with Him. . . . Second, you can give Him the gift of doing for others what He would do for them.”
-Henry B. Eyring
Hope your Sunday was the Best! Love, Joy
Natasha got to visit Santa today! Fun!
Who doesn’t love a great Christmas movie! Here is a list of our favorites:
For years we would read the Christmas story from the scriptures, then watched “It’s A Wonderful Life.” (I’ve told this story before on here, but I have to share it again.) One year we could not find the movie. We searched and found the case for the movie, but no movie was found. Then one of the kids said, “Let’s watch, ‘What About Bob’!” It’s a movie about a guy who thinks he needs a psychiatrist and has all of these issues. He becomes very attached to his shrink and follows him to his vacation home. The plot takes a turn near the end of the movie, and it’s quite funny to see how things turn out. It’s doesn’t have any ties to Christmas, but it became our traditional Christmas Eve movie for a while, until we got a new copy of “It’s a Wonderful Life!”
Updated December, 12, 2023-
Our favorite Christmas movie is “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Some of the things we love about it are: 1-The innocence of the time the movie takes place, which is around World War II. 2-An important part of the story is about sacrifice. George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) is the main character, and always puts other peoples needs first and foremost, in spite of the fact that he has big dreams of traveling the world and seeing new places. 3-The movie speaks truth. It tells us that God is real and aware of us and what is going on in our lives. And that He will help us, and bless us. 4-That angels are near and helping whether we see them or not. Some people don’t like that others see angels with wings, but I love it. It’s just symbolic and means they can move quickly to aid or help us. 5-This is such an important thing to know, is that we are all significant, we all matter. If we had never been born life would be different for all who love us.
I love that there are wonderful stories that teach us important things. I am grateful for this time of year when we get these reminders while being entertained too. Merry Christmas
“Remember, honey contains all of the substances necessary to sustain mortal life. And the doctrine and gospel of Christ is the only way to obtain eternal life. Only when our testimony transcends what is in our mind and burrows deep into our heart will our motivation to love and to serve become like unto the Savior’s. It is then, and only then, that we become deeply converted disciples of Christ empowered by the Spirit to reach the hearts of our fellowmen.
When our hearts are no longer set upon the things of this world, we will no longer aspire to the honors of men or seek only to gratify our pride (see D&C 121:35–37). “
-M. Russell Ballard
Hope your Sunday was the Best! Love, Joy
A funny story that happened when my son Riley was little, about 2-3 years old. His dad and I were doing chores, and we were folding a tablecloth together. I didn’t like the way my darlin was doing it, and he didn’t like the way I was doing it. We said a few words in a tone that said we were bugged by each other. Riley was watching the whole thing and said, “Just share, k?” We both looked at each other and busted up laughing. We still laugh about it and quote him to this day.
What does that have to do with family history? Not much, except that it is best done when we share our information and what we know. Family Search has some great information about sharing! You can read about it here!
Happy Family History Friday! Love, Joy
When I was just twenty-one years old, I served an LDS mission to Texas. I arrived in March. The temperature was beautiful and mild during the day, and became cold at night. For some reason, while packing to go on my mission I packed a hot water bottle that belonged to my maternal grandma. I don’t remember why I packed it, but at night when things cooled down, I would fill it with hot water and snuggle in bed with it till I fell asleep. Soon, it was summer and quite hot. We didn’t have air conditioning in all of the places I lived on my mission. It was quite difficult to fall asleep when it was so hot. Sometime between filling the hot water bottle to stay warm and summer coming the lid became stuck on the hot water bottle. I could not remove it, no matter how hard I tried. A nice benefit to not being able to remove the lid and summer coming was that now my hot water bottle was a cold hot water bottle. I would fall asleep moving it to various place on my body my, neck, legs, back, until I would finally be able to fall asleep. I was so grateful for my cold hot water bottle.
Riley recently bought Natasha a package of “Silly Bands”.
They are cute little rubber bracelets.
They become the shape of something familiar when they are laying on the counter. Like the outline of a boot, or a star, or anything else.
Natasha went a little crazy and put the whole container on her wrist.
“Silly Bands,” gotta love ’em!!
I love them!
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