This is come follow me for us hybrid a little bit of old a little bit of new because yeah I said it and it was good

And as I'm your host Melanie Stroud. This is season 5 episode 48 Christmas

good tidings of great joy. Okay as I was listening to this and going over this one this year,

I thought what an amazing Christmas message this is,

because I think say we lose Jesus in Christmas but we lose an opportunity to testify

if we're just saying I'm so glad the baby was born I'm so glad the baby is born oh

look at the baby in a manger and we don't talk more about what that means

what effect that moment has had in your life?

So this podcast, I really liked it because it's different from just telling the Christmas story over and over.

It's like, here's the result of that baby in a major and

maybe this year when we get around to tell the Christmas story or have all the kids

dress up like the nativity. Maybe we stop and have some of the people in the room share why it mattered.

Why that scene is so important, why we celebrate it because we can just celebrate a baby in a major and be like yeah

baby in a manger or we can celebrate what that event did for us personally

so I really like this podcast this year and listening back to this and talking about it

five years later I still feel the same way about Jesus and I'm so happy about that.

In these last five years I've seen a lot of people Jesus and I'm so happy about that.

In these last five years I've seen a lot of people leave and we have to decide what makes the difference and

I think it is focusing on Jesus Christ and reading the scriptures especially the book of Mormon every day

When we do that when we develop those habits then we make it through and we're still here five years later so if you haven't made a goal

to read the scriptures every day next year is the Book of Mormon yay

so you don't have to decide, oh, do I do come follow me or read the book

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