Sunday, December 28, 2014
Tithing Settlement
Austin survived his first tithing settlement. He really enjoyed visiting with all of the families and getting to know people better. He gave each family a new Book of Mormon and asked them to read and mark it next year as a family.
Christmas Message
On December's Fast Sunday, Bishop Nunn was the last one to bear his testimony, and he stood up and challenged us to avoid anything negative and to be positive and post positive things. Share the goodness.
For our Christmas Sacrament Meeting, we opened with the organ and piano playing an awesome arrangement of Joy to the World with the congregation standing to sing. Then the choir sang a couple songs and there were a couple other musical numbers, and Brother Olsen and Brother Zemp were the speakers. Bishop Nunn gave the closing remarks. He told about a Christmas when he was young when his family was living in the bunkhouse - 24 feet by 24 feet. His Dad was working at a logging camp as a buckerman (and that's not how he got his name) and had an accident and broken his ribs. That Christmas, their gifts were wooden horses and wooden trains and wooden guns that his parents had cut out. A few years later they received real bebe guns. He said that every Christmas is not perfect and happy for everyone. Some years will be a wooden horse Christmas, and some years will be a store-bought, just what you wished for, with all of your family around you - Christmas. No matter what kind it is, serve others, enjoy what you do have, and remember the reason we celebrate Christmas - the birth and life of Jesus Christ.
We closed with the organ and piano and all of the congregation singing O Holy Night. I wish every person in the world could experience the Spirit of a powerful Christmas Sacrament Meeting.
For our Christmas Sacrament Meeting, we opened with the organ and piano playing an awesome arrangement of Joy to the World with the congregation standing to sing. Then the choir sang a couple songs and there were a couple other musical numbers, and Brother Olsen and Brother Zemp were the speakers. Bishop Nunn gave the closing remarks. He told about a Christmas when he was young when his family was living in the bunkhouse - 24 feet by 24 feet. His Dad was working at a logging camp as a buckerman (and that's not how he got his name) and had an accident and broken his ribs. That Christmas, their gifts were wooden horses and wooden trains and wooden guns that his parents had cut out. A few years later they received real bebe guns. He said that every Christmas is not perfect and happy for everyone. Some years will be a wooden horse Christmas, and some years will be a store-bought, just what you wished for, with all of your family around you - Christmas. No matter what kind it is, serve others, enjoy what you do have, and remember the reason we celebrate Christmas - the birth and life of Jesus Christ.
We closed with the organ and piano and all of the congregation singing O Holy Night. I wish every person in the world could experience the Spirit of a powerful Christmas Sacrament Meeting.
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