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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

11-3 to 12-24


I just wanted to share something pretty cool....

if you start reading the Book of Mormon today,

and read 10 pages a day,

underlining each time there is a reference to the Savior,

(ex: Messiah, the One, Jesus, etc.)

you will finish on Christmas Eve,

and literally it will be one of your best Christmas' ever!

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One year my mom called me and said

"do you want to have the best Christmas ever"?

"like ya,"

I said,

I remember, I had little kids and money was tight and I wanted nothing more than to wake up on Christmas morning after Santa had come and have tonz of presents under the tree...

that's when she explained the

November 3rd-10 page a day-best Christmas ever thing-

okay, it sounded fun, so I took the challenge and did it!

and,

it really was the best Christmas,

I don't remember what Santa brought for us under the tree that year

but, I do remember the beautiful, calm, peaceful feeling I had that year and the love I felt for Our Savior and how grateful I was for Him, and what an honor it was to celebrate Him that Christmas season...

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Now, some of my brothers and sister still do it,
it's a fun thing we look forward to...

I've skipped the last few years,

but

today we, (my little family) started the Best Ever Christmas Challenge,

we read our 10 pages tonight, and it felt good.

.

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Hey, do you want to have the best Christmas EVER???

4 comments:

Abbie said...

Love this. Thanks.

Erickson Fam said...

wow! thanks for sharing this. Money is tight this year and I want to have a wonderful Christmas and didn't exactly know how to make it happen. I can do this! (starting a little late, so I need to get busy).
Thank you again for posting this!

Erickson Fam said...

by the way.. I posted this on my blog too. Hope you don't mind. It was just to great to not share!

Unknown said...

Such a great idea. Christmas will be slim for us financially too but I hope that this and other things will bring the true meaning of CHRISTmas in to our home!