So we have had lots of festivities to start bringing the spirit of Christmas into our home. We went to 2 Christmas parties already and last night we were privileged to go to the Christmas Devotional! We were happily keeping the Sabbath day holy by taking a nap when we kept getting interupted by our annoying cell phones. People kept calling about every 15 minutes, so each time we were 1/2 alseep when another call would come... So, 4:00 rolled around and another call came in.I sleepily answered it and my visiting teac
her invited us to go to the devotional with them cuz they had extra tickets!So, we were like "yeah! cool!"
and they were like "okay we'll bring the tickets over right now!"
"oh! okay!" ( while I'm thinking I'm all gross with bed head from sleeping etc...)
So 2 minutes later the door bell rings (no joke)
Francisco jumps out of bed and gets dressed super quick and I too am quickly throwing on clothes to be decent enough to get the door.
Anyway, so we had to get ready in just minutes to get to the devotional on time! It was nuts!
but we got there, everything was beautiful and the talks were awesome! One of our favorite parts was when the entire audien
ce (21,000 people) sang "Joy to the World". It was so powerful and beautiful. We also loved President Uchtdorf's talk on how Christmas is about light and that we don't need a lot of material things to have a good Christmas; that the bad economy might even be a blessing to some to remember the true meaning of Christmas. Then President Eyring talked about traditions. We loved his story of the live nativity and Samuel the Lamanite. :) We also loved his testimony at the end. It was so direct, so simple and so powerful. and of course President Monson's talk was great! He talked about giving and charity and the true meaning behind Christmas, to remember Christ.
We are so happy for this time of year and the opportunity that we have to share with other our beliefs about the Son of God, the Redeemer and Savior of the world with our friends and loved ones!
ce (21,000 people) sang "Joy to the World". It was so powerful and beautiful. We also loved President Uchtdorf's talk on how Christmas is about light and that we don't need a lot of material things to have a good Christmas; that the bad economy might even be a blessing to some to remember the true meaning of Christmas. Then President Eyring talked about traditions. We loved his story of the live nativity and Samuel the Lamanite. :) We also loved his testimony at the end. It was so direct, so simple and so powerful. and of course President Monson's talk was great! He talked about giving and charity and the true meaning behind Christmas, to remember Christ.Afterwards we went
to Temple Square to see the lights. It was cold but it was nice!Francisco and I are so happy that my parents are coming for the holidays and that baby Claire is being born! phew!!! That was a lot!
For those of you who would like to see the Christmas devotional, here is the link!
http://www.lds.org/move/index.html?type=Christmas&event=2008&lang=english
And here is our awesome Christmas present to ourselves!
8 comments:
I am excited! I am going to watch the rest of the devotional tonight. I started last night, but got interrupted by fam! I love your Christmas present to yourselves. Good choice. ANd guess what? Our meeting with president Lewis is tomorrow night. We're almost there to the temple!Ahhhhh! I love you.
The devotional sounds like a neat experience. 21,000 people, wow! Sorry about your bad luck with the nap.
I love your red coat Ema! So cute! Also, congrats on the TV! It's big! Wasn't devotional AWESOME?! We were there too, I can't believe we didn't see you! Hee hee :)
I was there too! I loved all the parts you mentioned. It was so amazing. I loved being there. You two are so cute in your pictures. We forgot our camera! UGH- we were so mad. Anyway...sweet present to yourselves! Clay would be jealous if he saw that:)
Lex came be boppin home from school with the reindeer antlers on again. I should count how many days in a row she wears them.
Ok. I'm a terrible mother/mother-in-law. I haven't commented on your blog. Oh me oh my. I repent. I apologize. I grovel... will that do? Truly, I am sorry. I loved this post. I love your red coat Emmers and I love how Francisco matches you and I love how darned cute you both are and I love that you got to go to the devotional (I'm completely jealous!) and I'll have to watch the devotional sometime soon. We turned on Dad's computer and 'listened' to it but I'd taken two Benadryl and all I heard was the last sentence that Pres Eyring made about Samuel the Lamanite. It sounded hilarious... and then I was in lalaland again. And, I am excited to see you too! I cannot cannot wait. Pray for good weather for me, k? I love you both!
Here's another comment. To make up for my lack of comments. What do you want me to say Francisco? I posted something new Emily, since you complained about that too. ;) Well, guess I'd better stop "commenting" now. Love ya! Mamaknerrd
Oh my goodness, I haven't commented since the 14th of December! Guess I'd better comment again. I just looked at your pictures yet again. What a handsome couple you make. :) (Was that a good comment?) It has been super icy here and I'm worried about the weather for when I am supposed to show up there. Please envision and pray for good weather at BOTH airports, please? I love you guys and can't wait to see you. Ummm, I'd like to comment on a different post.
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