This week I'm really excited for Christmas. I love how we get to celebrate the birth of our Savior at this time of the year. I love seeing the lights, and I love seeing all of the people here, often with friends or family. We were talking to a member about the lights, and we were talking about our Savior - we have over 5 million lights on Temple Square, I certainly don't notice the one light that is a little dimmer or the one light that may have burnt out. But our Savior notices. He notices each and every single one of us, He knows exactly where we are in our spiritual growth, and how to help us shine brighter. He knows when we are a little dimmer, and He knows when we feel like our struggles are so great that we're just about burnt out. And He is mindful of us, and He wants to help us and to heal us to and to lift our burdens. Jesus Christ is the Light of the World, and He shares that light with each us so that on the days when we feel dim, we can find warmth in His light.
I love you and all and hope you have a very Merry Christmas, I hope as you celebrate you remember our Savior, Jesus Christ. Not just that He was born, but that He lived a perfect life and sacrificed Himself for each one of us. I read something about Shepherds and Sheep Herders the other day. A shepherd knows each and every one of his sheep, often giving them all a name. A sheep herder is someone who just drives the sheep forward in one big woolly mass. Jesus Christ is a Shepherd. He knows us all, and He loves us all. He suffered for each of us individually, not in one great human mass. I know that He lives, and that if it weren't for His perfect life and resurrection, we wouldn't have Christmas, because He would of just been a normal baby born in a stable. But He wasn't a normal baby, He was the Son of God. And I'm so grateful for Him.
Monday is my new day for Pday. I have realized though that I'm a holiday magnet - if there's a holiday coming up, that's probably the day my next pday will be haha. So with Christmas on Monday, my Pday got changed to today. I guess two pdays in a week is our reward for no pday the last week and a half haha.
Love you all! Hope this email goes through :)
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