2015 Christmas Jar....

This year for our family Christmas jar, I decided that taking the money we saved up for the year which was about $80 in change...we would make more jars and pass them out.
I made 40 jars...we went down to stg last night to the temple grounds and passed them out to people we did not know, the boys pasted out rain deer candy canes to the little kids.
Complete strangers looked at us and many of them asked "is this really for me" "why" ....our answer was "yes, Merry Christmas".
passing them out was SUCH a good feeling, I wish i could do it every night...Im so thankful that I had the prompting to do something a little different with our jar this year. I think it really helped ppl feel the spirit last night and remember there is still good ppl in the world who are selfless and kind and just trying to make a little difference.

As we were making our rounds around the temple there was this older lady walking all alone, bundled up, I gave kaylin a jar and he ran over to her and handed it to her and she said "is this for me" and he told her "yes, merry christmas" and as we all passed her we said merry christmas and she said "thank you, merry christmas". We made our way around the temple and stopped back at the car for some more jars and went back into the gates by the nativity and started handing out more jars and candy canes. The little old lady was right next to us against a trash can holding her jar close to her and watching the nativity...crying. She pulled me over and I just felt something so special when she touched me...she said "when your son gave me this it truly brought tender mercys to me, it gave me answers to some prayers I have been searching for, thank you so much". I teared up a little and gave her a big hug and told her Merry Christmas and thank you. That feeling hasn't left me and it just keeps playing over and over in my mind. We were meant to be there at that moment that night...just that one act was worth all the time it took to make them...I would do it over and over again just to help one person...just to give one person some light in an hour of need. I wish I could have gotten her name and number and maybe someday we will run into her again.

It was a little bit of a rough night with the boys down there, they were hunger and tired and some of our plans that i planned didnt turn out and the boys were upset because we didnt go do anything "fun"....but they are young and as they get older they will see how helping others is the most important thing you could do.
Iam thankful for my sweet hubby who may have not wanted to go to stg but did it anyways for me...just that one little old lady made everything worth it!

I am thank for my savior and for the Christmas season and the true meaning of it. Im lucky to have my family and to know that I will always and forever have them because the savior Jesus Christ made that possible with his sacrifice for us all.