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Welcome to ourSilent Christmas LessonPlease No TalkingThe purpose in presenting this in silence is to help you feel the spirit in different ways. You will be reading, writing, listening and watching. Each of you have been given a paper and pencil. This will be used to write your answers as well as any thoughts or feelings you may have throughout the lesson.

Two thousand and twelve years ago every one of us peered out over the veil of time and distance and watched with wonder as the birth of our Savior, our older brother, took place. What a glorious occasion that must have been! Im sure we laughed, we cried, we celebrated. This was the moment we had waited for! This was the part of our Fathers plan most precious and Holy! So glorious was this moment that we spontaneously joined our voices together and began to sing! A sublime chorus of notes and voices blended together to create one of the sweetest sounds ever to come from the Heavens! So great was our joy and our celebrating that the sounds could be heard even to the ends of the earth.

Angels We Have Heard On High

How does it make you feel knowing you were so excited that you shouted for joy, and believed when Jesus Christ was born?

Do you know who you are in relation to our Savior Jesus Christ? Who?

When you are finished put your pen on your lap and listen to the words of the song.

When darkness falls and night besets my soulHer gentle song still sings of brighter hopeAbove the voice of sorrowBeyond all bitter tearsEchoes of that lullaby linger through the years

When Mary sang her lullaby of loveAnd cradled in her arms the Holy ChildIn that poor and lowly placeHallowed by his grace'twas a lullaby to comfort all the world Darkness fell o'er Bethlehem at lastAnd hastened weary travelers to their restThe empty streets all silent,All silent was the nightAll silent 'neath the star of stars aglow with heaven's light

Then Mary sang her lullaby of loveAnd cradled in her arms the Holy ChildIn that poor and lowly placeHallowed by his grace'twas a lullaby to comfort all the world

Darkness fell o'er shepherds in the fieldsTill heaven's joyful tidings were revealedThe angels' song of gloryRe-echoed o'er the plainsWhile in a stable, soft and low, a sweeter song remained

For Mary sang her lullaby of loveAnd cradled in her arms the Holy ChildIn that poor and lowly placeHallowed by his grace'twas a lullaby to comfort all the world

Open your scriptures and read Luke 1:26-35(Holy Bible Page 1273)

.Fear Not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. Thou shalt bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.

Do you think Mary understood all that the Angel Gabriel told her?

Read Luke 1:38

What was her response?

When the Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and told her she would bringforth a son, she did not ask, "Why me?" she did not argue. She did notdoubt. She did not hesitate.

Mary believed that it would happen!How can you take Marys example and make it a part of your life?

Watch now as we go back in time and experience what it might have been like when Jesus was born.

The Nativity

There in the sheltered warmth of a cave, beneath the limestone hills of Bethlehem, Jesus was born and cradled in a manger. He left his Holy station; he left all the Glory and Majesty to enter the body of an infant.

The birth of Christ IS TRUE!Mary believed it would happen. Shepherds believed that it did indeed happen.Do you believe as they did?

President Hinckley said that because of our certain knowledge of His living reality, we, of all people can sing: Joy to the world, the Lord is come. Let earth receive her King! Let evry heart, prepare him room, and saints and angels sing. We honor Him, we worship Him, we love Him as our redeemer, The Great Jehovah of the Old Testament, the Messiah of the New Testament. The entire thrust of the testimony of the Book of Mormon and Doctrine & Covenants declares our living Lord before whom we kneel in humility and faith. It is proper during this season when we commemorate His birth that we remember the Lord Jesus Christ in reverence and with love. He has done for us what we could not do for ourselves. He has brought meaning to our mortal existence. He has given us the gift of eternal life. He was and is the Son of God, who was made flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:14). There would be no Christmas if there had not been an Easter. The babe Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another baby, without the redeeming Christ of Gethsemane and Calvary, and the triumphant fact of the Resurrection

We, as your Young Women leaders, echo the testimony of our beloved prophet President Hinckley of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Eternal, Living God. None so great has ever walked the earth. None other has made a comparable sacrifice or granted a comparable blessing. He is the Savior and the Redeemer of the world. (We) believe in Him. (We) declare His divinity without equivocation or compromise. (We) love Him. (We) speak His name in reverence and wonder. (We) worship Him as (we) worship the Father, in spirit and in truth. (We) thank Him and kneel before His beloved Son, who reached out so long ago and said to each of us come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. (Matt. 11:28)

Please watch this video about our Savior and then take a few minutes to write down your feelings about our Savior, the Redeemer of the world!

I know that my Redeemer lives

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The First Noel (Piano Solo)Sally DeFord Music, track 1205334.67 -

The First Noel (Piano Solo)Sally DeFord Music, track 1205334.67 -

When Mary Sang Her Lullaby (Heather Prusse)Sally DeFord Music, track 1316287.53 -

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