Merry Christmas and Wonderful Happy Holidays Everyone!
Highlights & Blessings
My new companion, Sister
Clark, and I had a great week of service, teaching and helping.
One highlight was
that we were able to teach a part member family in beautiful Shell Beach. The wife
is a member of our church and the husband is not. He has lots of great questions and
has a desire to learn. He is such a kind person too. The wife has been less-active so it is great that
we can teach both of them. The best part of the lesson was when Brother
K (We like to call him brother already:) committed his wife to start to read the Book of Mormon along with him and for them to start going to church together! He made our job easy:)
And the great thing is, that they
did come to church yesterday! They enjoyed our wonderful Christmas
program. Our ward did a especially good job I think:) Sister Clark and I enjoyed singing Christmas Hymns in
the church choir too. The spirit was so strong during our Christmas meeting. Sacrament Meetings always lifts my spirits.
I've always thought that Music has such a
wonderful way of bringing the Christmas spirit. We had a lot of
visitors at our meeting and I'm sure they could all feel it. It was so
wonderful that we could all gather together to remember the birth of our
Savior through music, stories and scriptures.
You Love Who You Serve
We
were able to do a fun service at the Methodist Church and wrap Christmas presents for
children and families in need. It was a good feeling helping out and being surrounded by wrapping paper, bows, gifts and mostly, caring people. I loved serving with everyone and felt love for those who the gifts were going to. We were also able to help at the Food Pantry and Food Bank in our area this week. So it was a great week for service!
New Companions :)
I
am so excited that I have this opportunity to serve with Sister Clark! I
love her already and we get along great. She is a hard worker and very
dedicated to the Lords work. She is a wonderful example of charity and love.
From the few days we've been together, I can tell we will be a great
team :)
Thanks Be Unto God
Grandma Skinner wrote me this week and
included a scripture that I thought fit perfectly with the 'He Is The
Gift' campaign. It is 2 Corinthians 9:15
"Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift". It is so true.
Everything we have is because of Christ.
We have so much to be thankful
for and even with ups and downs and good days and bad days, if we look around we will be able to recognize our many
blessings. This is such a wonderful time of year when we can turn
outward like the Savior. I liked this quote from a talk I read - "Christmas is a time of reflection on what we
can become because of God's sacred gift. As we DISCOVER the gift, we
learn of the immeasurable love of God and our absolute need for a
Savior. As we EMBRACE the gift, we strengthen our faith in Jesus Christ
and desire to become more like Him. As we SHARE the gift, we follow in
the Master's footsteps, who invited all to hear is message" - Elder
Russell M. Nelson
I'm going to try more to Discover, Embrace and Share the gift. Much love to you all! I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas. I'm looking forward to talking to my family soon!:)
Merry Christmas!
Praying for you all,
Love,
Sister Karissa <3
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