The True Meaning

 Well, one week until the Big Day!!! "It's Pretty Dang exciting!!"

Wednesday we had a Christmas Devotional Zone Conference and it was pretty awesome!! It was basically a 4 hour meeting about #LightTheWorld and what we can do better!!! The only bad thing about it was that now we don't have any miles on our car so we will probs be biking everyday this week!! It builds character I guess!

We had a Ward Christmas Party on Friday and Steven Pollock (investigator) came! He was really excited to be there, and it was super fun!! I don't know if I said this already last week but he said he wanted to start meeting every other day now, I guess to get the ball moving. He will be hanging with us today when we go to play chair soccer and spikeball!!

Elder Lusko gave me his original 1999 Darth Maul Lightsaber (it glows up too)! He said, "You've proven you love Star Wars more than me!" HAHA

Oh ya, Star Wars 8 got spoiled for me....so that happened! I don't really know what to expect now, because from what I heard it sounds silly. At least from what I heard, Disney is basically taking many a dumps upon Star Wars. I don't know if that's true, but of course I wouldn't be surprised. But it's all good and dandy here in the mission field, I don't have to worry about that...yet!

Yesterday was the best Sunday that I have EVER experienced!! I guess I should give some preface...I've never felt and incredible amount of appreciation for Jesus Christ during the Christmas Season for some reason, usually that happens at Easter. So yesterday was a Choir singy song sacrament day. It was pretty cool all the way up until the last song that was sung. The congregation sung Silent Night while the Choir sang another song. Within the first few words I began to cry. The spirit wrapped around me and wouldn't let go. I can honestly say that I know the true meaning of Christmas now. I love the Savior and all that he has done for me!! 

Scripture for this week is a Talk given by Elder Marcus B. Nash called Joseph Smith: Strength out of Weakness...

To sum up the talk, it is about how Joseph Smith was prepared to be a Prophet and help in the Restoration of the Gospel. One of my favorite lines in the talk is when he was talking about weaknesses...

"...out of weakness, Joseph was made strong-strong enough to do 'more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men' (D&C 135:3) than any other prophet in all history. Our unchangeable God will likewise make you and me strong out of weakness-if we will turn to Him in faith with full purpose of Heart, as did Joseph."

Our weaknesses can be made into strengths. Amen. Hallelujah! God be praised!!!

Merry Christmas!!

Elder Northrup

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