What are some things that you look forward to every Christmas season? Are there traditions that you have? Well, as you know, I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and there are some things as I thought about it, that we do every year that I think might be unique to Latter-day Saints. So today, I'm going to talk about 10 Christmas traditions that I look forward to as a Latter-day Saint. So let's get to it.
So the first thing that I'm going to talk about is the #LightTheWorld campaign that the church has. Every December, they come out with a service calendar, and they give you ideas on every day on things that you can do to help light the world and make it a better place. We've had so much fun with this already this year. One of the things that it's suggested that you do is for Monday, the 7th was signs of Christmas, lift others, like Jesus did decorate a neighbor's door with Christmas Greetings, and share a picture of what you wrote on social media. So we did this with our children. What we did is we cut out snowflakes, made a little Christmas card, and I decided that we were going to take it to one of our neighbors, one of our friends in the ward, and they have small children. So we thought it'd be fun for them. My son Xavier was having a blast with this. He's eight years old and just really enjoyed cutting out the snowflakes. I think we all enjoyed it. And then we go to this family's home and they actually had some stairs that we had to walk up to get to their door. So everyone was trying to be really quiet. And then we decorate the door with all these snowflakes who put the card on there. It's just a surprise for them when they they come out and they see that someone's decorated their door. And we have this nice little Christmas message for them. And so that was one of the ideas. We've been doing it all December long. And it's just a great way to keep Top of Mind ways where you can look outside of yourself and help others and to bring a smile to other people's life. So anyway, I really enjoy that. And that is the #LightTheWorld campaign that the Church does. If you want to see what the calendar is all about, you can go to comeuntochrist.org. And you'll just scroll down and see all the different things that they have with Light The World. The service calendar is just part of it. But that part that's really fun. We really enjoy that and you can print the calendar out as a PDF, to look through all the different ideas that they have for the month of December.
One thing that we look forward to every Christmas is the Tabernacle Choir concert. This year with the COVID restrictions, there's no Tabernacle Choir concert, one of the many things this year that has been cancelled because of COVID-19. And it's really something that is, you know, disappointing for. For me personally, I love the choir. Whenever I listen to the Tabernacle Choir, I feel the spirit. The Tabernacle Choir is very special, and the music touches my heart touches my soul. To hear them live is really something incredible. And if you are ever in Salt Lake, and there's not a pandemic going on, you really need to make it to temple square and see the Tabernacle Choir. Think of a free live performance every Sunday as part of music and the spoken word. Often you can also catch them practicing. So this year, you'll just have to try and catch some of their previous recorded Christmas concerts. They're always fantastic. That has always been something that we really enjoys either going and seeing them in person, or at least watching it on TV.... (tune in to the podcast for the full show)
So until next time, cheers from the Pacific Northwest. And Merry Christmas, everyone.
