Stanford Family Home Evening: Christmas Family Home Evening 2024

Monday, December 23, 2024

Christmas Family Home Evening 2024

Read or Summarize 2 Nephi 25:26

26 And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins.

Discuss

This year, as we’ve read, learned, and studied the Book of Mormon, we’ve learned so much about the Savior and Heavenly Father’s love for us. Christmas is the time where we celebrate and reflect upon the simple, humble birth of the Savior. He was sent as a baby, innocent and perfect, as all babies are. As He grew, He learned of His sacred and divine mission. He performed miracles, He expressed His Father’s great love for us, as He taught people, took on all our pains and afflictions, died, and gave us eternal life through His resurrection. Why? Because He loves us. Oh what joy comes from the knowledge of that love! Share that love with others, teach them of the joy that Christ can bring!

This year, the theme of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ Christmas message has been to be somebody else’s angel.

Challenge

Be someone else’s angel by teaching them what Christ’s love looks like. Think about the individual. Instead of giving a group gift, do a personal one. Some ideas would be:

Write a personal note to each person in your family telling them what you love about them, and or recognizing an attribute of the Savior you notice in them.
Take a Christmas treat to someone who may feel forgotten or unloved.
Go caroling at your grandparents’ house or at a care center or retirement home.
Call a friend or neighbor and wish them a Merry Christmas and show them that you care.
Volunteer in a homeless shelter or at the bishop’s storehouse or cannery.
Come up with your own idea

Watch

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