The wise men took Him gold and myrrh,
The drummer boy took him beats,
In Paraguay, it's pakova,
They bring to Him as treats.
I, with empty hands and full heart,
Have little to give a King,
How could I match the gift He gave,
When He took away death's sting,
His birth, marked by a bright new star,
Brought hope to a darkened night,
His death, foretold by prophets of old,
Saved us from our sinner's plight.
I could give Him riches, wealth, or worlds
Could gift Him all I have to give
But I think His Christmas wish for me is that
A life like His I'll live.
After all, His most precious gift,
Is used most when I repent
His mercy makes me Homeward-bound
His love, so heaven sent
Beneath the boughs of my Christmas tree,
Sits no gift that bears His name,
But in my chest, a broken heart reads,
From Jesus: I took away your blame.
Merry Christmas
Showing posts with label A College Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A College Christmas. Show all posts
Sunday, December 15, 2019
Monday, November 27, 2017
Light the MTC
Hey fam!
So my Auntie Wea, my cousin Maija, and I created this super cool booklet to help you #lighttheworld this holiday season. I am SUPER EXCITED about it and wanted to share it with all of you.
As y'all know, I will soon be leaving on my mission to Argentina. Before I leave the country, however, I will spend six weeks training at the Missionary Training Center in Provo. There, I will *hopefully* learn to speak Spanish and teach others about the gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm super pumped! Since I'll be there for Christmas, I wanted to find a way that I could Light the World despite being in the MTC. I won't be able to participate in any of my family's service Christmas traditions, like baking cookies for friends and family, participating in local food drives, or inviting the missionaries over for Christmas dinner. In fact, I pretty much won't be able to leave the MTC much at all: I'll be hardcore training from dawn to dusk. So traditional community service just isn't going to work for me this year.
So, my aunt and cousin and I got thinking. How could I, as a missionary, light the world this Christmas?
After a super awesome brainstorming session involving lots of Didi Reese cookies (Side note: THEY ARE SO GOOD!) and paper, we came up with a booklet to help missionaries and everyone reflect on their own inner lights. After all, how can any of us light the world if we don't have light to offer to others in the first place?
The journal has prompts for each of the 25 days of service (learn more here). The prompts are designed to get you thinking about what light you have to offer the world. What specific set of life experiences, talents, and wisdoms do you have to offer the world?
College and missionary moms, this would be a GREAT thing to send to your missionaries and college kids. It's small, so it can fit easily into a package or big envelope, and it's the perfect thing to help make a child's Christmas meaningful when they are away from home. You can even send them a Christmas service package full of things that they may need to serve others, like thank you notes, candies, stamps, stationary, or basic toiletry items for the homeless. I know for me, I LOVE getting little journals or stationary items, as they are easy to pack and super useful.
You can download the journal here
Have fun lighting the world, and stay tuned for my Christmas at the MTC!
So my Auntie Wea, my cousin Maija, and I created this super cool booklet to help you #lighttheworld this holiday season. I am SUPER EXCITED about it and wanted to share it with all of you.
As y'all know, I will soon be leaving on my mission to Argentina. Before I leave the country, however, I will spend six weeks training at the Missionary Training Center in Provo. There, I will *hopefully* learn to speak Spanish and teach others about the gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm super pumped! Since I'll be there for Christmas, I wanted to find a way that I could Light the World despite being in the MTC. I won't be able to participate in any of my family's service Christmas traditions, like baking cookies for friends and family, participating in local food drives, or inviting the missionaries over for Christmas dinner. In fact, I pretty much won't be able to leave the MTC much at all: I'll be hardcore training from dawn to dusk. So traditional community service just isn't going to work for me this year.
So, my aunt and cousin and I got thinking. How could I, as a missionary, light the world this Christmas?
After a super awesome brainstorming session involving lots of Didi Reese cookies (Side note: THEY ARE SO GOOD!) and paper, we came up with a booklet to help missionaries and everyone reflect on their own inner lights. After all, how can any of us light the world if we don't have light to offer to others in the first place?
The journal has prompts for each of the 25 days of service (learn more here). The prompts are designed to get you thinking about what light you have to offer the world. What specific set of life experiences, talents, and wisdoms do you have to offer the world?
College and missionary moms, this would be a GREAT thing to send to your missionaries and college kids. It's small, so it can fit easily into a package or big envelope, and it's the perfect thing to help make a child's Christmas meaningful when they are away from home. You can even send them a Christmas service package full of things that they may need to serve others, like thank you notes, candies, stamps, stationary, or basic toiletry items for the homeless. I know for me, I LOVE getting little journals or stationary items, as they are easy to pack and super useful.
You can download the journal here
Have fun lighting the world, and stay tuned for my Christmas at the MTC!
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Light the World Part Two
So I just wanted to give you guys some more ideas with my advent calendar set up.
If you haven't read Part One of this post, go back and read it first!
Originally, I had my advent calendar on the back of my wardrobe (see the picture on the right), but I ended up moving it to my front door so all the girls in my dorm could participate too!! (left picture) I left a note on my door that said "#lighttheworld Treat under each! Feel free to participate." I've had lots of the girls in my hall show interest in participating, so I was really excited to make the calendar available to them.
Here are the very simple steps for creating your own calendar:
1.) Print out all of the cards: In my last post, I posted a link to the place where you can find them. I printed these out in color for about $2.00 at my school's library, but if you're feeling like being extra cheap, you can print them out in black and white too
2.)Write out on sticky notes your gift for each day: You can see my last post for some ideas.
3.) Tape or sticky tack the cards to your door: Under each card, put one of your sticky note rewards. That way, each day you can lift up the card and see what your surprise for the day is! Personally, I liked using sticky tack to hold down the cards because that way, it is really easy to lift up them up and see what is under them.
And that's it! My roommate and I have been doing the challenges on the cards for the past couple days, and we've been having a lot of fun lighting the world. I wish you all the best of luck in lighting up the world too!
If you haven't read Part One of this post, go back and read it first!
Originally, I had my advent calendar on the back of my wardrobe (see the picture on the right), but I ended up moving it to my front door so all the girls in my dorm could participate too!! (left picture) I left a note on my door that said "#lighttheworld Treat under each! Feel free to participate." I've had lots of the girls in my hall show interest in participating, so I was really excited to make the calendar available to them.
Here are the very simple steps for creating your own calendar:
1.) Print out all of the cards: In my last post, I posted a link to the place where you can find them. I printed these out in color for about $2.00 at my school's library, but if you're feeling like being extra cheap, you can print them out in black and white too
2.)Write out on sticky notes your gift for each day: You can see my last post for some ideas.
3.) Tape or sticky tack the cards to your door: Under each card, put one of your sticky note rewards. That way, each day you can lift up the card and see what your surprise for the day is! Personally, I liked using sticky tack to hold down the cards because that way, it is really easy to lift up them up and see what is under them.
And that's it! My roommate and I have been doing the challenges on the cards for the past couple days, and we've been having a lot of fun lighting the world. I wish you all the best of luck in lighting up the world too!
Light the World Part One
Hello guys!
So, I've got something super cool to share with you all today.
For those of you who don't know, there's a new social media Christmas challenge for this year to #lighttheworld! If you don't yet know anything about this yet, watch this sweet video to learn more.
People all across the world have taken this idea of lighting up the world and ran with it. If you just search #lighttheworld on social media, you'll find thousands of examples of people doing just that.
Well, I wanted to hop on that service bandwagon. As a college kid, however, my life is a lot different than other people's lives. I pretty much fit the stereotype of an ordinary college student. I am consistently dead broke and dead tired (but I haven't died yet!), I eat cereal for dinner sometimes (because why not?) and I walk in the snow in flip flops (hey, I was too lazy for boots). Although I love being at college, its sometimes hard to get into the true Christmas spirit when I am so far away from home. When I watched the video on lighting the world, however, I was inspired and knew I wanted to get involved in lighting the world in my own little way.
One blog that has some great ideas on how to light up the world this Christmas season is the blog Brightly Street. Please check out her AMAZING ideas here. She made a cool advent calendar to keep track of the daily themes for the Light the World challenge. I was inspired by the idea and have tweaked it to fit into my crazy college kid life. So today, I'm going to give my appropriately cheap, easy, and lazy college version of her wonderful idea.
First off, I printed out all of her advent calendar's cards (you can get them here). There are cards for each day of December, and each card has a song, scripture, video, and challenge associated with it. I then wanted to think of some way to have treats to go with my calendar. Most advent calendars come with a little piece of almost edible chocolate for each day. Instead of this, I wrote a "college" style treat for each day on sticky notes and then stuck the sticky notes under each card.
Here's the list of my treats, but feel free to get creative and make your own!
Day 1: Make a snowman
Day 2: Go Christmas shopping
Day 3: Netflix time!
Day 4: Watch the LDS Christmas Devotional in your pjs
Day 5: Vending Machine Snack
Day 6: 10 minute break for Facebook or Instagram
Day 7: Eat dessert today!
Day 8: Eat ice cream today (for me, I specified BYU Creamery ice cream because that stuff is LIFE)
Day 9: Make a blanket fort and study in it
Day 10: Movie Night!
Day 11: Call one of your little siblings or cousins
Day 12: Go for a walk and watch the sunset
Day 13: Pamper yourself! Dress up, do your nails or hair, whatever you like.
Day 14: Vending Machine Snack (you can never have too many)
Day 15: Music Jam session
Day 16: Temple Trip
I stopped here, because we all start going home for Christmas around the 17th, and for me, that's gift enough. You may want to extend or change your daily gifts, depending on your Christmas break plans. Other ideas include going out to eat with friends, Skyping people from home, going to sleep early or waking up late (which, I think, is the best gift in the world!), or go off campus exploring.
More ideas on a college Christmas coming soon!
So, I've got something super cool to share with you all today.
For those of you who don't know, there's a new social media Christmas challenge for this year to #lighttheworld! If you don't yet know anything about this yet, watch this sweet video to learn more.
People all across the world have taken this idea of lighting up the world and ran with it. If you just search #lighttheworld on social media, you'll find thousands of examples of people doing just that.
Well, I wanted to hop on that service bandwagon. As a college kid, however, my life is a lot different than other people's lives. I pretty much fit the stereotype of an ordinary college student. I am consistently dead broke and dead tired (but I haven't died yet!), I eat cereal for dinner sometimes (because why not?) and I walk in the snow in flip flops (hey, I was too lazy for boots). Although I love being at college, its sometimes hard to get into the true Christmas spirit when I am so far away from home. When I watched the video on lighting the world, however, I was inspired and knew I wanted to get involved in lighting the world in my own little way.
One blog that has some great ideas on how to light up the world this Christmas season is the blog Brightly Street. Please check out her AMAZING ideas here. She made a cool advent calendar to keep track of the daily themes for the Light the World challenge. I was inspired by the idea and have tweaked it to fit into my crazy college kid life. So today, I'm going to give my appropriately cheap, easy, and lazy college version of her wonderful idea.
First off, I printed out all of her advent calendar's cards (you can get them here). There are cards for each day of December, and each card has a song, scripture, video, and challenge associated with it. I then wanted to think of some way to have treats to go with my calendar. Most advent calendars come with a little piece of almost edible chocolate for each day. Instead of this, I wrote a "college" style treat for each day on sticky notes and then stuck the sticky notes under each card.
Here's the list of my treats, but feel free to get creative and make your own!
Day 1: Make a snowman
Day 2: Go Christmas shopping
Day 3: Netflix time!
Day 4: Watch the LDS Christmas Devotional in your pjs
Day 5: Vending Machine Snack
Day 6: 10 minute break for Facebook or Instagram
Day 7: Eat dessert today!
Day 8: Eat ice cream today (for me, I specified BYU Creamery ice cream because that stuff is LIFE)
Day 9: Make a blanket fort and study in it
Day 10: Movie Night!
Day 11: Call one of your little siblings or cousins
Day 12: Go for a walk and watch the sunset
Day 13: Pamper yourself! Dress up, do your nails or hair, whatever you like.
Day 14: Vending Machine Snack (you can never have too many)
Day 15: Music Jam session
Day 16: Temple Trip
I stopped here, because we all start going home for Christmas around the 17th, and for me, that's gift enough. You may want to extend or change your daily gifts, depending on your Christmas break plans. Other ideas include going out to eat with friends, Skyping people from home, going to sleep early or waking up late (which, I think, is the best gift in the world!), or go off campus exploring.
More ideas on a college Christmas coming soon!
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