Family!
What a week! I can't believe that tomorrow is Christmas! Oh boy I'm excited. It always felt like we had to wait forever for Christmas but that's definitely not been the case-- Time flies!
I love that we focus on the Savior during Christmas. That sounds kind of odd but it's interesting to interact with people who don't even know why we celebrate Christmas.
We watched a slide show of pictures from across the mission and it was cool to see missionaries from the MTC as well as missionaries across the mission I've never ever seen!
We've started to read the book of mormon as a mission and really try to rediscover how much the Book of Mormon is a testimony of Chirst. We're counting all of the references to Christ (including pronouns) and it's incredible! I'm on page 12 (for real) and already have over 120. I'm excited to continue to give number updates for you (especially for Dad), it's powerful to begin to recognize how central the savior is to this work.
I love our Family christmas traditions and Pres and Sis. Dance shared some of theirs as she read a chain of scriptures from the book of mormon prophesing about Chirst birth. It was really powerful and i thought it might be a cool thing for our family to do sometime!--
Ether 3;14, 1 Nephi 11:13-22; 19:8-9; 2 Nephi 2:26; 25:19; Mosiah 3:5; Alma 5:48; 7:7 9:26-27; Helaman 14:2-6; 3 Nephi 1:12-14; 9:15-18.
I Love You!
Love, Elder Barnes
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