HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Here are some photos from our Thanksgiving and the day Giovanna and the girls put up our first Christmas tree! It has been a challenge to get Sara to leave the ornaments alone but she is now obeying and not touching the tree. We went to a Thanksgiving lunch with a couple of other seminary families in the apartment building next to us. We had a wonderful time and it was more children at the party than adults and we had so much fun watching them play together. Ingrid began to do something new, stick her tongue out! I got a few pictures of it and it was hilarious. After the lunch, we went for a family walk together with the girls in a new double stroller that Giovanna got from the sharing shop on campus. Sara loves her sister so much and this stroller lets them sit side by side and Sara held Ingrid's hand the entire time.

As I watched parades and football on TV, people were asked before commercials what they are thankful for. Everyone said the common things like family, friends, material things, etc... and it brought tears to my eyes as I never heard one person mention that they are thankful for what Jesus Christ did for us on the cross. In Isaiah chapters 52 and 53, the prophet Isaiah described what the Savior would endure hundreds of years before Christ came. In 52:14, Isaiah says that the Messiah would be beaten and disfigured so badly that He would not even be recognizable; beaten worse than any man would ever be beaten. Yet, at Thanksgiving, all we can think about is turkey, football, and family. That's all nice, but it is nothing in comparison to the love, grace, and glory of Jesus Christ. Thank you Jesus....