Paisley: Hey, everybody, Paisley imperfect here with our very
last make a plan Monday for 2024 and there isn't a lot this week.
The focus is on Christmas. And so let's just go through this.
This is the Come follow me curriculum. What's in the come
follow me? Book for Christmas, December 23 through the 29th he
shall come into the world to redeem His people. And there are
a few things in here, Title Page of the Book of Mormon, Helaman,
chapter five, verse nine. There's some other scriptures
down here, a link to some Christmas videos if you want to
watch those Christmas music if you haven't been Christmas music
out yet. And then there's light the world.org if you need some
service activities. And then there are some other scriptures
here and hymns as well. And then this right here, Christmas study
plan. This is what we got started on last week. So we'll
get and we'll get into that here. In just a minute. We're
going to finish that up Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. And then
there's some more scriptures here, in this paragraph and in
this one, and then this one. Consider recording in a journal
how studying the Book of Mormon this year has brought you closer
to Jesus, closer to Christ. The following prompts might help.
And there's some prompts to actually get us to write some
stuff and talk, kind of write our testimony, really, of the
Book of Mormon. What we learned this year, if you want to share
the Book of Mormon as a gift, the Book of Mormon app is there
available. And then there's a talk right here, a living
witness of the living Christ from 2020 Bishop, Gerald casay,
and I am probably butchering that. I apologize that I
actually moved to Thursday because of the other the the
Christmas study plan. I moved this to Thursday and then the
rest of it ideas for teaching children. The primary teachers
are actually because there's a fifth Sunday this December, the
primary teachers are encouraged to use preparing children for a
lifetime on God's covenant path for their fifth Sunday lesson
this week, there's a primary song, a picture that we are
probably very familiar with, and then some more verses down here.
Children love stories. Tell them stories. Book of Mormon Stories.
Some more artwork and an activity page, if you want to do
that with your kids. Okay, so for Monday, so let's go back to
or let's get started, I guess on the 2024, Christmas study plan
for this week, we've got Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Monday,
the Lord provides a night without darkness in the
Americas. Tuesday, Jesus Christ was born and presented in the
temple. And Wednesday, the Wise Men worshiped Jesus and gave
gifts. So let's look at the first one, the Lord provides a
night without darkness in the Americas now over here, if you
click on this icon up here towards the top, this is the
related content icon. And there's a talk in here from
President Nelson. There isn't a lot else in here. There's a
verse or two. There's a listing of verses right there. And then
there's Nephi praise and signs of Christ's birth appear a video
that's just under five minutes long, and an opportunity to
record your impressions. There's also a song and an activity page
for kids, and then the service ideas down here at the bottom.
So I took all of this for Monday, and I put, I just put in
the video and the scriptural witnesses. This talk from
President Nelson, both of those two combined, comes to about 19
and a half minutes. So we'll say 20 minutes on Monday, on Tuesday
is this one Jesus Christ was born and presented in the
temple. There's another video here. This one right here, the
Christ child. We actually watched this for family home
evening tonight. It's very good. This one, it was, this is the
one that was released in 2019 it's still one of my favorites.
I love this one. This one is, I think I said it already, it's
just under 18 minutes. And then if we scroll down here, there's
no other related content. And so I went ahead and added this Luke
chapter two, verses, one through 38 on this one, this is
Christmas Eve. A great opportunity to read the
Christmas story from Luke, record impressions. And then
there's an activity for kids. You can print this and cut it
out and talk about the first nativity. There's also a play
script down here, if you wanted to do a play with your kids, and
some more service ideas. So all of this, I took these verses and
this video and put those together, and that comes to just
over 21 minutes, so about 20 minutes on Monday and 20 minutes
on Tuesday. Day. And then on Wednesday, the Wise Men
worshiped Jesus and gave gifts. This one has another video. This
video right here, wise men seek Jesus five minutes, 41 seconds.
And then there's a talk by President oaks over here, good
tidings of great joy from the First Presidency Christmas
Devotional two years ago in 2022 and that talk is 14, just over
14 minutes. So all told, that's about 20 minutes as well. So 20
minutes on Monday, 21 on Tuesday, 20 minutes on
Wednesday. And then I went back to here and to this talk. By,
where did it go? By Bishop casay, a living witness of Jesus
Christ, for Thursday, that talk is about 10 and a half, 10
minutes and 42 seconds. So about 11 minutes on Thursday. And
that's really about it. So what I was thinking, there are a lot
of things in here about recording our impressions as
we're talking about Christmas, and learning about Christmas. So
what if after Christmas, we decided to record our own story?
If you go to familysearch.org I totally recommend signing in.
Use your same sign in that you would use for your gospel
Library app on your phone or your tablet. If you don't have a
church login because you're not a member of the Church of Jesus,
Christ of Latter Day Saint saints, no fear, no worries at
all. Just click on this Create account up here and the top
right corner, and you can create a free account once you're
logged in. And I'm not going to log in because there's just too
much personal information on here that I don't really want to
put out on the interwebs. But once you're logged in, when you
if you click on activities right here and you go down to record
my story, there are a lot of really other cool things that
you should totally poke through. But you can go to record my
story continue when you're signed in, it will just
automatically go to this page. I just hit continue as guest so
that I can show you what it what it looks like my eight year old.
So back in January of last year, I started like a family history
I just invited some friends to join me once a month for like,
two hours to work on family history. It was just kind of our
way to block some time to make sure we actually spent some time
working on family history and gathering. Israel, my eight year
old in the last couple of months has gotten really interested in
it, but she's too young for an account still. So she's too
young to be working on her ancestry. But what she can do is
answer some of these questions. And so I've been giving her some
of these, some of these questions, and letting her
practice with her writing or her typing. And she's been answering
them. She keeps picking the fun and entertaining ones. So I'll
just click on this. If you had a superpower, what would it be?
And when you click on this, it brings this up, and it gives you
the title already, but this is recording your story. So you get
to click this button to start recording, and you get to record
your answer. If you had a superpower. What would it be?
And then what? What the what it does with that, once you've
recorded it, it puts it into your own personal, your own
personal, what's the word I'm looking for, like ancestral
file. So once, that means that once you pass away, the people
who come after you will have access to that. So what was your
favorite vacation? You can just tell about this really amazing
vacation that you took with your kids or with your parents. What
whatever your favorite vacation was, you can tell the story and
pass that story on to your grandkids, your great grandkids,
great great grandkids, and they can hear it in your own voice.
It's so cool. So for Friday and Saturday, that's what I'm going
to be working on. I can't say that I'm going to do fun and
entertaining. I don't know what I'll do, heart and soul, that
might be a little deep, what's been an important event in your
life? What do you miss the most from your childhood? Who's your
best friend? And the beauty of these is, once you've recorded
this, you can come back and record it again. My best friend
today is different than my best friend 10 years ago, which is
different from my best friend five years ago and different
from my best friend from elementary school. So while my
eight year old is talking about her best friend in the third
grade, I'm talking about my best friend in my mid 40s. Very
different place. In my life,
and she could probably record this again next year and have it
be a completely different person. But how cool would it be
to find out, like, what if somebody recorded a story about
you and then linked it? Because you can, you can link it to
people too, and linked it to they record a story talking
about you being their best friend, and then somebody,
somewhere down the road, like, let's say, 50 years from now,
you pass away, and your great great granddaughter, or great
great grandson, is listening to that story about your best
friend, and he starts wondering, Well, I wonder if my great
grandmas or my grandma, if her best friend is still alive. I
was sitting today was our family history Sunday. I'm recording
this on Sunday night. Today was our family history Sunday, and I
was sitting with one of my friends, and she found, she
actually found someone. She was going through her stuff, and
she's like, I wonder if this person is still alive. And if
that's why I can't find him, she went on Facebook and found out,
sure enough, that person is still alive, and that's why she
couldn't find him in Family Search. Anyway, it's a really
cool opportunity. And since we're recording our own stories,
and Jesus's story is so powerful and impactful to the entire
world, our stories could also be very powerful and impactful to
those who come after us, to know where they came from and maybe
where they get their personality from. Maybe grandma was a little
spicy, and maybe that's where they get their little spiciness
from. I don't know anyway. I just think it's really cool.
That's all that I've got for you today. I strongly encourage just
record one on Friday and one on Saturday doesn't have to be a
big thing, and it doesn't have to be very long. Don't feel like
you have to be like a major storyteller or anything like
that. Just, just tell a quick story that your grandkids will
love. Thank you so much, you guys for being here. I really
appreciate your time. Next year, I've looked into the doctrine
covenants a little bit, and next year is going to be a whole
different ball of wax. It's structured a little bit
differently. The Come follow me curriculum, not the curriculum
itself, but how we will do our weekly study plans, is going to
be a little bit different next year. So year, because of the
way that they because of the way that it looks in the Come follow
me book, there are a lot, there's a lot of extra. There's
a lot of extra stuff that we can add in, and opportunities for us
to really learn about the people in church history. It'll be
really cool anyway. Thank you so much for being here. You guys,
good luck with this week. Have a very merry Christmas. I wish you
a very Merry Christmas and a very happy new year until next
time. Thanks so much. You.