Welcome to Part 2 with Sister Joy Jones. Christmas.

Joy, you mentioned your time serving as primary president and traveling to different countries.

I think our listeners would love to know what that was like to you.

There are not words to describe what I felt in those experiences. I just hold those tender

experiences in my heart and truly looking into the eyes of children.

When we're talking about Christmas, I mean Christmas is about children.

We've talked about remembering the sacred and wondrous gift of birth and babies.

Babies make us feel such hope and newness of life and our Savior brings a perfect brightness of hope and the promise of eternal life.

When I look into the eyes of babies, I have to comment on that first sentence in the Come

Follow Me lesson, why does the birth of a baby bring such great

joy there is nothing like holding an infant it's almost what I would imagine a

celestial experience to be.

And I want to know, brethren, where do you look first when you hold a little baby?

Where do you look first?

Those big bright eyes.

Yes. You look right into those beautiful eyes. Eyes are

truly the window to those precious souls as far as I'm concerned. I used to stare into the eyes of my babies and I would

literally ask little one where have you just been? You know those moments where you contemplate, where they've been, what they still remember, what they've experienced.

Babies connect me to heaven. They connect me to my heavenly father and to my

heavenly home. They truly bring a spiritual connection. Babies thin the veil. It's just

sacred to hold a baby. I was thinking about all the art depictions that we see of how the

Savior might appear, what he might look like. We see so many beautiful representations.

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