Well I am reading a
few emails from y’all this week and everyone is talking about Thanksgiving…
yeah that came and went without me hardly realizing it. Although on Saturday I
decided to be more festive and I made a list of my blessings… :D ß that’s how I felt
And that’s how I still
feel! Because there is something so exciting going on in the missionary world
right now… soon to be “in the Christian world right now” because pretty soon
everyone who believes in Jesus Christ will know about it! And even people who
don’t.
This year in
celebration of Christmas, the church launched a huge and I mean huge iniciative
to help us all feel Christ at Christmastime. They made a seriously beautiful
video called He is the Gift, and on Friday, they launched it on Youtube and on
an amazing website called christmas.mormon.org. We got to spend an hour
on this website this week (which is totally totally not normal!) and it was so
beautiful! Spiritual feast!
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| mormon.org/Christmas/Story |
I didn’t even miss out on Thanksgiving haha.
Starting today, the video will play on the screens in Times Square until
January first :D And you all should go to Youtube this Sunday December 7, but
I’m not gonna tell you why.
The scriptures say
that the gospel will be carried to the four corners of the earth, that every
nation will hear it in their own tongue. This year, 220 million people will see
a 30-second version of the video. It’s really crazy and beautiful to live in this
time, when prophecies are being fulfilled. I always pictured some big guy with
a megaphone when I heard these scriptures, but now I realize how funny that is.
It’s not gonna be anything like how I pictured. It’s going to be through means
we already have—the internet, missionaries, and members of the church who
invite their loved ones: one here, one there—until everyone has heard the
gospel, the good news.
It is the best news I
have in my life, and it’s important to me to help others feel it.
To my family and
friends who are reading this, I love you a lot. You are in my thoughts a
ton!!!! You are in my prayers. I am excited to come back and see you. I am
learning how to receive the Gift for myself this week through some of the
things I printed off from links I followed on the site christmas.mormon.org.
The Gift make changes in my life—peace, hope, confidence, love—every day that I
am willing to subject my own will to a Someone whose will is much bigger and
wiser.
As Caitlin taught me,
God is big and He is close.
In the name of Jesus
Christ, amen.
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| mormon.org/Christmas/Story |
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