Missionary Christmas

 We will be spending another missionary Christmas here in Montreal.     Of course our main celebration is the birth of our beloved Savior Jesus Christ.  Without Him we would have nothing.  With Him we have everything.  We have the opportunity of having life eternal with Him and with our Heavenly Father.  My greatest desire, hope, and prayer is to see all of my children and grandchildren and their children and their children and on and on live the gospel of Jesus Christ.  My prayers are for them to do all that is required of them to reach the Celestial Kingdom and to have everlasting joy and happiness.

 Today at sacrament we heard a recent convert speak of his conversion to the church.  He said before his baptism he was one man.  Now he is a totally different man.  He loves the Lord and wants to serve him.  He has prayed and received a witness that the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith was a true prophet of the Lord.  He spoke of how each of us can come close to God and how each of us can receive all of the blessings that God wants for us.  He, a brand new member of the church, urged each person to pray and to receive this witness for himself.  The interesting thing is that he was a Muslim before and the son of an Imam.  An Imam is a leadership position in the Islamic community.  Most often it is a leader in a Mosque and in a Muslim community.  Mousa has been in Canada for 18 months and is probably in his mid thirties.

 We loved listening to the Christmas Devotional broadcast from S.L.C.  We loved hearing the Prophet Thomas S. Monson and the other speakers.  We loved hearing all of the beautiful Christmas music.

I love the Christmas season.  The only hard part about it is that I am away from my children and grandchildren and great grand daughters.  I miss them all so much.  I can't wait to see them all again.
Until then, I will continue my work and be happy serving to the best of my abilities.