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Idea List: Make Your Christmas Christ Centered

by Peggy Sue Clark

Peggy Sue Clark, “Idea List: Make Your Christmas Christ Centered,” New Era, Dec. 1998, 33
• Make a “give list” instead of a list of gifts you’d like to receive.

• Improve yourself in some way that would be pleasing to the Savior.

• Make time for quiet reflection and choose uplifting holiday activities instead of marathon shopping.

• Bear your testimony out loud, either at testimony meeting or to a friend or family member.

• Read the Christmas story from the Bible (see Luke 2).

• Repent prayerfully and fully of your sins before taking the sacrament. Think only about the Savior during the sacrament.

• Write about what you’re doing to make the season meaningful, either in your journal or in a letter to yourself.

• Watch the First Presidency Christmas Devotional.

• Team up with your family and be a “Secret Santa” for an individual or a family in your ward.

• Read the December New Era.

• If your ward or stake is having a Christmas social, invite a less-active member to go with you and your family.

• Check out videos from your meetinghouse library about the life of the Savior.

• Listen to beautiful Christmas music. Handel’s Messiah is a great choice.

• Think of ways your family’s Christmas traditions reinforce your testimony. Focus on those aspects of your celebration.

• Keep pictures of the Savior throughout his life around the house in places you will see them often.

• If there are small children in your home or your neighborhood, organize a live Nativity. Invite friends and neighbors. Serve Christmas cookies and hot chocolate as refreshments.