Hello my friends, Mary Christmas from Follow Him. My name is St. Smith, I'm your host. I'm here with my magical co-host John by the way welcome John Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas to everybody. Yeah isn't this exciting.

John this is our third Christmas episode.

Tell me what Christmas time is like in the By The Way House.

Well, there was a time when my wife and I

were trying to make things magical, as you said,

and now the kids sometimes before Thanksgiving or can we put up the tree can we do this can we do that and

It's great. There's just a feeling. I have noticed that as my children age their Christmas lists

get shorter but somehow more expensive. John, we are joined by the perfect Christmas guest.

We have the privilege of having Sister Joy Jones with us.

Joy, Merry Christmas to you. Thank you for being on our podcast. Tell us what you love about Christmas.

What are we looking forward to to talking about today?

Oh, I love everything about Christmas that relates to the Savior.

Everything that leads us to him and that's why Christmas is so spectacular

because it is all about him. I'm delighted to see where the spirit will take us today.

The Come Follow Me Manual starts with,

Why does the birth of a baby bring such great joy?

What a wonderful, wonderful question.

Let's explore that today. John, before we move forward, I don't think Joy needs an introduction, but we better give her one. Tell our audience who Sister Jones is.

Yes, I think our audience will recognize her from a few general conference talks.

I remember once I recognized her sitting at a women's conference talk I was about to give and

suddenly I got a little more nervous but she was so

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