WEBVTT 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:07.560 Paisley: Hey, everybody, Paisley imperfect here with our very 00:00:07.560 --> 00:00:13.320 last make a plan Monday for 2024 and there isn't a lot this week. 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:18.720 The focus is on Christmas. And so let's just go through this. 00:00:18.720 --> 00:00:22.400 This is the Come follow me curriculum. What's in the come 00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:26.240 follow me? Book for Christmas, December 23 through the 29th he 00:00:26.240 --> 00:00:29.240 shall come into the world to redeem His people. And there are 00:00:29.240 --> 00:00:32.960 a few things in here, Title Page of the Book of Mormon, Helaman, 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:36.440 chapter five, verse nine. There's some other scriptures 00:00:36.440 --> 00:00:39.920 down here, a link to some Christmas videos if you want to 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:44.740 watch those Christmas music if you haven't been Christmas music 00:00:44.800 --> 00:00:49.600 out yet. And then there's light the world.org if you need some 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:54.220 service activities. And then there are some other scriptures 00:00:54.220 --> 00:00:58.300 here and hymns as well. And then this right here, Christmas study 00:00:58.300 --> 00:01:01.200 plan. This is what we got started on last week. So we'll 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:03.420 get and we'll get into that here. In just a minute. We're 00:01:03.420 --> 00:01:07.380 going to finish that up Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. And then 00:01:07.380 --> 00:01:10.740 there's some more scriptures here, in this paragraph and in 00:01:10.740 --> 00:01:14.100 this one, and then this one. Consider recording in a journal 00:01:14.100 --> 00:01:16.800 how studying the Book of Mormon this year has brought you closer 00:01:16.800 --> 00:01:19.980 to Jesus, closer to Christ. The following prompts might help. 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:23.180 And there's some prompts to actually get us to write some 00:01:23.180 --> 00:01:26.360 stuff and talk, kind of write our testimony, really, of the 00:01:26.360 --> 00:01:31.520 Book of Mormon. What we learned this year, if you want to share 00:01:31.520 --> 00:01:34.460 the Book of Mormon as a gift, the Book of Mormon app is there 00:01:34.580 --> 00:01:37.520 available. And then there's a talk right here, a living 00:01:37.520 --> 00:01:42.520 witness of the living Christ from 2020 Bishop, Gerald casay, 00:01:42.940 --> 00:01:48.160 and I am probably butchering that. I apologize that I 00:01:48.160 --> 00:01:53.320 actually moved to Thursday because of the other the the 00:01:53.740 --> 00:01:58.000 Christmas study plan. I moved this to Thursday and then the 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:02.520 rest of it ideas for teaching children. The primary teachers 00:02:02.520 --> 00:02:05.700 are actually because there's a fifth Sunday this December, the 00:02:05.700 --> 00:02:09.600 primary teachers are encouraged to use preparing children for a 00:02:09.600 --> 00:02:12.900 lifetime on God's covenant path for their fifth Sunday lesson 00:02:12.900 --> 00:02:18.000 this week, there's a primary song, a picture that we are 00:02:18.060 --> 00:02:21.620 probably very familiar with, and then some more verses down here. 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:25.280 Children love stories. Tell them stories. Book of Mormon Stories. 00:02:25.640 --> 00:02:29.060 Some more artwork and an activity page, if you want to do 00:02:29.060 --> 00:02:34.820 that with your kids. Okay, so for Monday, so let's go back to 00:02:34.820 --> 00:02:39.440 or let's get started, I guess on the 2024, Christmas study plan 00:02:39.440 --> 00:02:44.260 for this week, we've got Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Monday, 00:02:44.320 --> 00:02:46.720 the Lord provides a night without darkness in the 00:02:46.720 --> 00:02:50.500 Americas. Tuesday, Jesus Christ was born and presented in the 00:02:50.500 --> 00:02:54.040 temple. And Wednesday, the Wise Men worshiped Jesus and gave 00:02:54.040 --> 00:02:59.260 gifts. So let's look at the first one, the Lord provides a 00:02:59.260 --> 00:03:03.120 night without darkness in the Americas now over here, if you 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:06.300 click on this icon up here towards the top, this is the 00:03:06.300 --> 00:03:09.480 related content icon. And there's a talk in here from 00:03:09.480 --> 00:03:13.620 President Nelson. There isn't a lot else in here. There's a 00:03:13.620 --> 00:03:19.020 verse or two. There's a listing of verses right there. And then 00:03:19.020 --> 00:03:23.120 there's Nephi praise and signs of Christ's birth appear a video 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:26.480 that's just under five minutes long, and an opportunity to 00:03:26.480 --> 00:03:29.600 record your impressions. There's also a song and an activity page 00:03:29.600 --> 00:03:32.360 for kids, and then the service ideas down here at the bottom. 00:03:33.260 --> 00:03:38.120 So I took all of this for Monday, and I put, I just put in 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:41.620 the video and the scriptural witnesses. This talk from 00:03:41.620 --> 00:03:46.120 President Nelson, both of those two combined, comes to about 19 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:52.120 and a half minutes. So we'll say 20 minutes on Monday, on Tuesday 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:55.060 is this one Jesus Christ was born and presented in the 00:03:55.060 --> 00:03:58.600 temple. There's another video here. This one right here, the 00:03:58.600 --> 00:04:01.020 Christ child. We actually watched this for family home 00:04:01.020 --> 00:04:06.780 evening tonight. It's very good. This one, it was, this is the 00:04:06.780 --> 00:04:11.040 one that was released in 2019 it's still one of my favorites. 00:04:11.040 --> 00:04:15.960 I love this one. This one is, I think I said it already, it's 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:19.860 just under 18 minutes. And then if we scroll down here, there's 00:04:19.860 --> 00:04:24.140 no other related content. And so I went ahead and added this Luke 00:04:24.140 --> 00:04:27.560 chapter two, verses, one through 38 on this one, this is 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:30.620 Christmas Eve. A great opportunity to read the 00:04:30.620 --> 00:04:35.660 Christmas story from Luke, record impressions. And then 00:04:35.660 --> 00:04:39.800 there's an activity for kids. You can print this and cut it 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:43.660 out and talk about the first nativity. There's also a play 00:04:43.660 --> 00:04:47.320 script down here, if you wanted to do a play with your kids, and 00:04:47.320 --> 00:04:51.820 some more service ideas. So all of this, I took these verses and 00:04:51.820 --> 00:04:55.300 this video and put those together, and that comes to just 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:59.500 over 21 minutes, so about 20 minutes on Monday and 20 minutes 00:04:59.500 --> 00:05:03.480 on Tuesday. Day. And then on Wednesday, the Wise Men 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:11.400 worshiped Jesus and gave gifts. This one has another video. This 00:05:11.400 --> 00:05:16.980 video right here, wise men seek Jesus five minutes, 41 seconds. 00:05:17.460 --> 00:05:19.980 And then there's a talk by President oaks over here, good 00:05:19.980 --> 00:05:22.640 tidings of great joy from the First Presidency Christmas 00:05:22.640 --> 00:05:28.760 Devotional two years ago in 2022 and that talk is 14, just over 00:05:28.760 --> 00:05:34.040 14 minutes. So all told, that's about 20 minutes as well. So 20 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:37.340 minutes on Monday, 21 on Tuesday, 20 minutes on 00:05:37.340 --> 00:05:44.260 Wednesday. And then I went back to here and to this talk. By, 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:50.380 where did it go? By Bishop casay, a living witness of Jesus 00:05:50.380 --> 00:05:53.800 Christ, for Thursday, that talk is about 10 and a half, 10 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:59.080 minutes and 42 seconds. So about 11 minutes on Thursday. And 00:05:59.080 --> 00:06:03.420 that's really about it. So what I was thinking, there are a lot 00:06:03.420 --> 00:06:06.480 of things in here about recording our impressions as 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:09.840 we're talking about Christmas, and learning about Christmas. So 00:06:09.840 --> 00:06:13.860 what if after Christmas, we decided to record our own story? 00:06:14.520 --> 00:06:21.440 If you go to familysearch.org I totally recommend signing in. 00:06:21.860 --> 00:06:25.100 Use your same sign in that you would use for your gospel 00:06:25.100 --> 00:06:30.620 Library app on your phone or your tablet. If you don't have a 00:06:30.620 --> 00:06:33.260 church login because you're not a member of the Church of Jesus, 00:06:33.260 --> 00:06:37.580 Christ of Latter Day Saint saints, no fear, no worries at 00:06:37.580 --> 00:06:40.840 all. Just click on this Create account up here and the top 00:06:40.840 --> 00:06:44.680 right corner, and you can create a free account once you're 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:48.340 logged in. And I'm not going to log in because there's just too 00:06:48.340 --> 00:06:50.860 much personal information on here that I don't really want to 00:06:50.860 --> 00:06:54.400 put out on the interwebs. But once you're logged in, when you 00:06:54.460 --> 00:06:58.000 if you click on activities right here and you go down to record 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:01.380 my story, there are a lot of really other cool things that 00:07:01.380 --> 00:07:04.380 you should totally poke through. But you can go to record my 00:07:04.380 --> 00:07:08.040 story continue when you're signed in, it will just 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:11.580 automatically go to this page. I just hit continue as guest so 00:07:11.580 --> 00:07:16.620 that I can show you what it what it looks like my eight year old. 00:07:16.620 --> 00:07:20.540 So back in January of last year, I started like a family history 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:24.020 I just invited some friends to join me once a month for like, 00:07:24.020 --> 00:07:27.200 two hours to work on family history. It was just kind of our 00:07:27.200 --> 00:07:31.100 way to block some time to make sure we actually spent some time 00:07:31.100 --> 00:07:36.320 working on family history and gathering. Israel, my eight year 00:07:36.320 --> 00:07:39.680 old in the last couple of months has gotten really interested in 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:44.200 it, but she's too young for an account still. So she's too 00:07:44.200 --> 00:07:49.960 young to be working on her ancestry. But what she can do is 00:07:49.960 --> 00:07:52.420 answer some of these questions. And so I've been giving her some 00:07:52.420 --> 00:07:54.400 of these, some of these questions, and letting her 00:07:54.400 --> 00:07:57.940 practice with her writing or her typing. And she's been answering 00:07:57.940 --> 00:08:01.320 them. She keeps picking the fun and entertaining ones. So I'll 00:08:01.320 --> 00:08:05.760 just click on this. If you had a superpower, what would it be? 00:08:05.760 --> 00:08:11.280 And when you click on this, it brings this up, and it gives you 00:08:11.280 --> 00:08:15.060 the title already, but this is recording your story. So you get 00:08:15.060 --> 00:08:18.600 to click this button to start recording, and you get to record 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:21.680 your answer. If you had a superpower. What would it be? 00:08:22.460 --> 00:08:27.020 And then what? What the what it does with that, once you've 00:08:27.020 --> 00:08:33.320 recorded it, it puts it into your own personal, your own 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:36.560 personal, what's the word I'm looking for, like ancestral 00:08:36.560 --> 00:08:44.140 file. So once, that means that once you pass away, the people 00:08:44.140 --> 00:08:48.580 who come after you will have access to that. So what was your 00:08:48.580 --> 00:08:51.460 favorite vacation? You can just tell about this really amazing 00:08:51.460 --> 00:08:54.940 vacation that you took with your kids or with your parents. What 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:59.380 whatever your favorite vacation was, you can tell the story and 00:08:59.380 --> 00:09:03.600 pass that story on to your grandkids, your great grandkids, 00:09:03.660 --> 00:09:08.460 great great grandkids, and they can hear it in your own voice. 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:15.780 It's so cool. So for Friday and Saturday, that's what I'm going 00:09:15.780 --> 00:09:18.540 to be working on. I can't say that I'm going to do fun and 00:09:18.540 --> 00:09:22.100 entertaining. I don't know what I'll do, heart and soul, that 00:09:22.100 --> 00:09:24.680 might be a little deep, what's been an important event in your 00:09:24.680 --> 00:09:27.320 life? What do you miss the most from your childhood? Who's your 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:32.780 best friend? And the beauty of these is, once you've recorded 00:09:32.780 --> 00:09:38.180 this, you can come back and record it again. My best friend 00:09:38.180 --> 00:09:42.940 today is different than my best friend 10 years ago, which is 00:09:42.940 --> 00:09:46.960 different from my best friend five years ago and different 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:51.220 from my best friend from elementary school. So while my 00:09:51.220 --> 00:09:53.980 eight year old is talking about her best friend in the third 00:09:53.980 --> 00:09:58.900 grade, I'm talking about my best friend in my mid 40s. Very 00:09:58.900 --> 00:10:00.840 different place. In my life, 00:10:01.860 --> 00:10:05.340 and she could probably record this again next year and have it 00:10:05.340 --> 00:10:09.060 be a completely different person. But how cool would it be 00:10:09.780 --> 00:10:13.080 to find out, like, what if somebody recorded a story about 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:17.700 you and then linked it? Because you can, you can link it to 00:10:17.700 --> 00:10:23.120 people too, and linked it to they record a story talking 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:29.120 about you being their best friend, and then somebody, 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:32.900 somewhere down the road, like, let's say, 50 years from now, 00:10:32.900 --> 00:10:35.420 you pass away, and your great great granddaughter, or great 00:10:35.420 --> 00:10:37.880 great grandson, is listening to that story about your best 00:10:37.880 --> 00:10:40.840 friend, and he starts wondering, Well, I wonder if my great 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:46.540 grandmas or my grandma, if her best friend is still alive. I 00:10:46.540 --> 00:10:49.120 was sitting today was our family history Sunday. I'm recording 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:51.940 this on Sunday night. Today was our family history Sunday, and I 00:10:51.940 --> 00:10:55.060 was sitting with one of my friends, and she found, she 00:10:55.060 --> 00:10:58.660 actually found someone. She was going through her stuff, and 00:10:58.660 --> 00:11:01.080 she's like, I wonder if this person is still alive. And if 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:03.540 that's why I can't find him, she went on Facebook and found out, 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:05.880 sure enough, that person is still alive, and that's why she 00:11:05.880 --> 00:11:10.980 couldn't find him in Family Search. Anyway, it's a really 00:11:10.980 --> 00:11:15.180 cool opportunity. And since we're recording our own stories, 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:19.620 and Jesus's story is so powerful and impactful to the entire 00:11:19.620 --> 00:11:24.500 world, our stories could also be very powerful and impactful to 00:11:24.500 --> 00:11:27.980 those who come after us, to know where they came from and maybe 00:11:27.980 --> 00:11:31.460 where they get their personality from. Maybe grandma was a little 00:11:31.460 --> 00:11:35.120 spicy, and maybe that's where they get their little spiciness 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:39.920 from. I don't know anyway. I just think it's really cool. 00:11:40.040 --> 00:11:44.380 That's all that I've got for you today. I strongly encourage just 00:11:44.380 --> 00:11:48.340 record one on Friday and one on Saturday doesn't have to be a 00:11:48.340 --> 00:11:51.100 big thing, and it doesn't have to be very long. Don't feel like 00:11:51.100 --> 00:11:53.980 you have to be like a major storyteller or anything like 00:11:53.980 --> 00:11:58.900 that. Just, just tell a quick story that your grandkids will 00:11:58.900 --> 00:12:03.540 love. Thank you so much, you guys for being here. I really 00:12:03.540 --> 00:12:07.560 appreciate your time. Next year, I've looked into the doctrine 00:12:07.560 --> 00:12:10.800 covenants a little bit, and next year is going to be a whole 00:12:10.800 --> 00:12:13.440 different ball of wax. It's structured a little bit 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:16.740 differently. The Come follow me curriculum, not the curriculum 00:12:16.740 --> 00:12:21.000 itself, but how we will do our weekly study plans, is going to 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:24.140 be a little bit different next year. So year, because of the 00:12:24.140 --> 00:12:28.820 way that they because of the way that it looks in the Come follow 00:12:28.820 --> 00:12:32.900 me book, there are a lot, there's a lot of extra. There's 00:12:32.900 --> 00:12:36.560 a lot of extra stuff that we can add in, and opportunities for us 00:12:36.560 --> 00:12:39.740 to really learn about the people in church history. It'll be 00:12:39.740 --> 00:12:43.180 really cool anyway. Thank you so much for being here. You guys, 00:12:43.180 --> 00:12:47.860 good luck with this week. Have a very merry Christmas. I wish you 00:12:47.860 --> 00:12:52.840 a very Merry Christmas and a very happy new year until next 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:59.200 time. Thanks so much. You.