Merry Christmas

Well hard to believe it's Christmas already! It sure doesn't feel much like Christmas at least weather  wise.I don't think I've ever sweat this much at Christmas time unless it was while putting gifts together on Christmas Eve after Lily had me stoke up all the fires in the house! This morning we invited the missionaries over for breakfast and open their packages from home. It was kind of fun. Later this morning we delivered a few more bags of rice that we didn't finish before and then Brother and Sister Base came over to visit. He's the 1st councilor in the branch. We had delivered some rice to the former 2nd councilor earlier and he asked if he could come over too and could he bring a friend and we said sure  and then they invited another friend so we ended up with 7 people here for the afternoon. It was fun! We taught them how to play Canadian Salad and then had fed them dinner.They loved it! Later we went to Bagangans and read the Christmas story with them and showed them the Nativity video and then after that we did the same thing with the Concepcions. It was really good. We really felt the Spirit at both families. Was probably one of the best Christmas's we've ever had.There's nothing quite like sharing the pure Spirit of the Gospel and the simple  scriptural account  of the 1st Christmas in the the humble homes of new members. Teaches us again that Christmas really has almost nothing to do with presents and lights and tinsel.It's really all about the wondrous birth of the Son of God. Being in His service this Christmas is the best gift we could ever have!