Feliz Natal!!!

Hey everyone, Merry Christmas! Hope everyone had an amazing Christmas and was able to focus on Christ this Christmas season! 


This year for Christmas, as I'm here in Brazil serving a mission, I've been able to focus 100% on Christ's birth this past month. It's been really enlightening. One of the things I've found really interesting is his infinite love for us. While I was reading Jesus the Christ, I re-read a chapter called "the need for a redeemer", which I found super interesting. In it he compares how a plant can't change into a person alone, that plant would need some sort of outside force to change it into a human. It's the same way with us, we aren't able to be changed and advance into resurrection, if it weren't for a redeemer. It was needed for us to have Jesus be born as a man, pass through all the trials man passes through, to make the sacrifice for us to be able to become perfect beings. 


As I was also studying this month in Alma 40, I deepened my understanding of how perfectly we will be judged. He describes this as the resurrection of our souls. Through this resurrection everyone will return to the state and receive the characteristics they had on earth. Then in Alma 42 he goes on to explain how this perfect restoration, for judgment, needed a savior, who we know is Christ. In Alma 42 verse 15 it says 
"And now, the plan of mercy could not be brought about except an atonement should be made; therefore God himself atoned for the sins of the world, to bring about the plan of mercy, to appease the demands of justice, that God might be a perfect, just God, and a merciful God also."


The need we had, and still infinitely have for Christ is so needed for us. He is the reason that we are able to feel never ending happiness and joy, because he came to earth we can live forever, because he came to earth we can know that our families are eternal, because he came to earth we can be forgiven. I know that Jesus Christ loves every single one of us, and that he died because of his love for us, I know that we have a plan to live with him again, that it was essential for him to come to earth, and to have a manly birth. Merry Christmas everyone! 





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