Merry Christmas 2024

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8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men.
15 And it came to pass, the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. (St. Luke 2:8-16)
May you and your families have a very blessed Christmas Day.

On This Christmas Eve Day

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The Savior’s birth was the beginning of giving us hope as he came as that babe in the stable to fulfill the plan to save us from sin in Gethsemane and on the Cross as the perfect lamb of God, and to give us eternal life when he rose from the dead. This is for anyone who thinks the Atonement wasn’t for them, IT WAS! And it started with his birth!!

1st Presidency’s Christmas Devotional

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This was our Church’s devotional. I have a link below, since WordPress keeps changing my blog format and I can’t imbed anymore. Hope the rest of your week isn’t too hectic as you finish your preparations for Christmas!!! (I’m not done with my knitting yet, lol). Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/broadcasts/2024-first-presidencys-christmas-devotional?lang=eng

Nativity Celebration

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This is instead of my Monday Funny this week. If you click each picture it enlarges it.

I went to volunteer at the Nativity Celebration that the local stake of my Church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) sponsors here every year. I only took picture of a fraction of all the Nativity sets, that people brought in from all over our stake (a stake is just an area that so many wards and branches are in, a ward is a certain number of people and up that meet in a building and branches are less people than a ward) off topic :P. I was told people brought in 997 Nativity sets to show, not all were members of our church and we loved having them participate, all were welcome (they take their Nativity sets home on Saturday after it closes.) We only asked the visitors to bring in a can of food for the food bank we chose. We had different choirs and bands and orchestras from different schools and Church choirs that came in to perform on Friday and Saturday. Member of our Church made refreshments too, no charge for the refreshments (hot apple cider and cookies, etc). It was fun. I wish the picture could be enlarged of the bottom left, it had roads and stairs to look realistic, so nice.

I was only there on Friday afternoon because I had to help Saturday on the alpaca farm. This Saturday will be his Christmas celebration with the alpacas. He will have some of the alpacas with costume reindeer antlers, refreshments and Santa for the kids to have pictures with (that one is a family member and they charge for the pictures) but like normal no charge for feeding the alpacas up close and personal, and chickens and peafowl, and he hopes they will buy something from his farm store to help with the cost of feed, processing the fiber into yarn, etc. I’ll try to remember to get pictures! Last year people were standing in line from the small pasture where the alpacas are, to the end of his driveway (which is about 6 car lengths). This year he got a very big connect 4 game the kids can play while standing in line to get into the pasture with the alpacas because he can only let so many people into the pasture at a time. It’s to keep the kids busy so their parents don’t go crazy, lol, hope that works out :P.

Christmas – Light the World

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Light the World

We are having our Light the World again to celebrate the Christmas season. On the page there is a Kindness Randomizer to click for an act of kindness idea to do that day, you can click it everyday for a new idea. Or you can scroll down to the 50 ways to let your light shine. Let his image shine in your countenance.

Winter is Here, We Have Snow.

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This is what I woke up to this morning, as you can see it wasn’t much, the ground isn’t quite cold enough for “fluffy stuff” to really stick around very long. Winter’s here, or at least trying to get here, we are suppose to have another warm up by this weekend into the 30’s, then we get hit with another winter blast from Canada. We only got the back side of this big storm that hit everyone with lots of snow east of us. But the weatherman said don’t worry there are more storms on the way. Sigh.

Got my Christmas tree up! I got this one 2 Christmas’ ago because my very old fiber optic tree (that I bought used in 2005) finally quit and I got this new fiber optic tree, I like all the colors it turns. It’s about a foot shorter, but I like it :). It’s feeling like Christmas is coming!!! I’m listening to all the Christmas music on my favorite radio station and loving it :). I’m trying to work on some knitting, need to push through, I have stuff that needs to get done!!!! Hopefully in a week or so I will have some progress to report.

This is Wish, the last cria born on the farm this year. He’s almost 4 months old so this is his first winter. I asked Ev, my son in law, if Wish was running and playing in the snow because of the snow on his back, but he said no, he was sitting by the barn door which stays open, except in bad storms or extreme cold, watching the snow and got snowed on, lol. But as you can see it doesn’t melt on him, because of the dense fiber which insulates his body from the cold and snow. Just thought I would throw this picture in because the cria (baby alpaca) are so cute!