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Christmas cards through the years

by Liz on December 17, 2016

2016:

2015:

(Nate’s second Christmas serving in Peru as a full-time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.)

2014:

Nate was spending his first Christmas away from home serving in Peru as a full-time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Here he is in the jungle on a preparation day, out for a hike.

2013:

2003:

2001, taken just before Eliza was born in October:

Looks like I have some digging to do to find the other photos between 1993 and 2013! I’m excited to find them and post them here!

“Bear, borne, carry, deliver. These are powerful, heartening messianic words. They convey help and hope for safe movement from where we are to where we need to be—but cannot get without assistance. These words also connote burden, struggle, and fatigue—words most appropriate in describing the mission of Him who, at unspeakable cost, lifts us up when we have fallen, carries us forward when strength is gone, delivers us safely home when safety seems far beyond our reach. ‘My Father sent me,’ He said, ‘that I might be lifted up upon the cross; … that as I have been lifted up … even so should men be lifted up … to … me.”

“But can you hear in this language another arena of human endeavor in which we use words like bear and borne, carry and lift, labor and deliver? As Jesus said to John while in the very act of Atonement, so He says to us all, “Behold thy mother!”

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, “Behold Thy Mother,” October 2015