“WHERE 2 OR 3 ARE GATHERED….”

December 19, 2010 Sunday



Well, actually we had four of us at church today. The Robinson family and the Davis family have gone to Perth for the holidays. Samantha didn’t answer her phone when we called to say we were coming by to pick her up for church, so it was us and Raphy and Simon at church. After the sacrament, we watched the first hour of the Saturday afternoon session of conference. During the RS/Priesthood time we talked about how those talks related to the true meaning of Christmas: Brother Hales had talked about agency. It occurred to me that Christ chose to do what he did in the pre-earth life. Mary chose to bear Him here. Joseph chose to marry here in spite of her pregnancy. And finally, once again, Jesus Christ chose to fulfill the atonement. Elder Cook spoke about light. Christ is the Light of the world. Elder Edgley spoke about faith and that’s where it all begins. We must choose to have faith in Jesus Christ and his gospel and then act accordingly and there we are once again back at agency. Kind of cool how those talks all dove-tailed together. We may have been small in number but that didn’t stop us from learning from being at church today.