Sunday, December 19th, 2010 - 10th Day

I woke up this morning, it's raining outside, but Sunday's are usually great days, so I was still pretty excited.   Meetings were great, as they usually are around Christmas time.  My daughter, Amber, got back from College today, and it's so great to have her here.  Her boyfriend, Mitch, drove her all the way down to Provo from Rexburg, ID when she then took Kaylee's van down to St. George.  I think that qualifies as a "Service of the Day".   In church, there were some wonderful stories of giving and kindness.  One true story told of a man that came and knocked on a couples door and asked if they needed their lights put up on their house.  The couple, not wanting to be an inconvenience, said, "No, it's alright, we'll be ok this year, we don't have any lights anyway".   That next morning, they awoke and saw that the man had went to the store, bought Christmas lights, and was putting them on their house.  He spent half the day putting Christmas lights up for them.  I love Christmas stories like that, it's what Christmas is all about.  It was fun to be nice to people today, especially children, they're so bright eyed, and when you say hi they get all excited, especially if you get down on their level, or call them by their first name.  So, after having a great church, we went over to Pam and Rhys Weaver's house (very good friends of ours), and celebrated her birthday.  I saw a lot of acts of service today, and that always warms the holiday season.  Things I learned today, 1st, if you eat your weight in chocolate chip cookies, you're going to gain weight, even if you do go to the gym.   2nd, same applies to fudge, ice cream, or any other food that tastes really delicious.  3rd, people are generally really nice people.  4th, my Bishop has a lot of Nativities in his house (over 400!).