This is Come Follow Me for us, a weekly podcast devoted to helping us gain a deeper love

for the Savior and his gospel through a weekly study of the Scriptures.

Hopefully this study will help further prepare us to accompany the Savior as he reckons.

Come Follow Me.

And as always, I'm your host Melanie Stroud.

This is season 3, episode 49, my full interview with Brittany Atkinson.

And as many of you may have seen on social media, Shane's sister Brittany finally lost

her battle with cancer on Christmas morning.

In the days, preceding her death as it looked like things were getting more imminent, I kept

saying to myself, not on Christmas, not on Christmas, just don't let it be on Christmas.

And then when it did happen on Christmas morning, I questioned why would it have to happen

that day.

And as the day went on, I realized what better time of the year to lose somebody than the

time that we're all talking about Jesus Christ.

The entire world is celebrating the birth of the Savior on that day.

And it's a time of year that we put up all the signs, say hope and peace and love and

joy.

And although it's going to put a little bit of sad on this day forever after for everyone,

I do think it was a little bit of a tender mercy that it happened that day.

So hopefully every year we can remember the Savior and because of his life and his death

and his resurrection that all of us can also live again and that through the doctrines

of the gospel and the ordinances, we're able to be with our families forever.

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