I love Sundays. I love matching clothes. I love the Christmas season. I love when neighbors drop off treats to celebrate the Christmas season. All in all, I would say this was a pretty good Sunday.
Fun fact: I bought this dress when I was about 38 weeks pregnant with Lucy. It was on clearance but only had one size - 3T. It matched a dress that I owned at home perfectly and so I bought it. I've been waiting 2.5 years to match with this lovely little girl in our red dresses. I wanted to snap a picture of our dresses so I set up the camera on timer and we were having fun. The other kids realized what we were doing and came to join. (We look pretty rough most Sundays lately, but everyone was in nice church clothes still and miraculously the boys hair even still looked mostly done.) I love this set of pictures, so I'm posting them all. Ha.
Plus a few snapshots of these handsome boys to prove that sometimes their hair is done even if it only stays that way for less than 10 minutes.
Happy Sunday!
I'm handing out CDs of the Living Christ set to music with accompanying flashcards for Christmas because memorizing the Living Christ was such a treasure to me. I really love the connection between the Living Christ and Christmas Celebration/Worship.
As Latter-day Saints, we rejoice in the blessing of continuing revelation through modern prophets and apostles. We are thankful for their inspired words of counsel, warning, and encouragement. But most of all, we are blessed by their powerful testimonies of Jesus Christ—at Christmastime and throughout the year. These are more than just stirring words of skilled writers or public speakers or insights from scriptural experts. They are the words of God’s chosen, called, and authorized “special witnesses of the name of Christ in all the world” (Doctrine and Covenants 107:23).
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In 1838, the Prophet Joseph Smith declared, “The fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it” (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, 49). Years later, President Russell M. Nelson noted that “it was this very statement of the Prophet that provided the incentive for 15 prophets, seers, and revelators to issue and sign their testimony to commemorate the 2,000th anniversary of the Lord’s birth. That historic testimony is titled ‘The Living Christ.’ Many members have memorized its truths. Others barely know of its existence. As you seek to learn more about Jesus Christ, I urge you to study ‘The Living Christ’” (“Drawing the Power of Jesus Christ into Our Lives,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2017, 40).
