Week 33- Thanksgiving Service

Happy December everyone! It has been quite the week,  but the highlight was of course Thanksgiving! We had a couple of service opportunities which were fun. In the afternoon we helped a bit with a Thanksgiving dinner that was served at a housing community, then we went around a nursing home with a poster and talked to them and had them put something they were thankful for on our poster! There was one sweet lady who was having such a hard day because she didn't have any family to be with, and her husband had died a couple months ago and she cried. So sad! We sang her some primary songs/hymns and she loved it so much. 

We volunteer in a Nature Center each week
and get to make fun crafts!

...and hold weird cochroach looking things.

We have also been starting light the world visits! The new Christ Child video is so beautiful--I hope you all have watched it. We are so excited to get in the Christmas spirit more by serving as Christ would! I invite everyone to go and sign up for those daily service prompts:)

Eat soup to stay warm!

Have a great week everyone!

Love,  Sister Potts 

FUN FACTS ABOUT THE GRANDIN GALLERY:

1. Have you ever wondered where the original painting of Christ visiting the Americas is? Well now you know... PALMYRA! 

2. I mean technically there's another original in the conference center, but the original original is in the Grandin Building.

3. There is a painter named CCA Christensen who is Danish and joined the church in the mid 1800s. He was going to art school but ended up dropping out to serve a mission. That's why his portraits have a unique style, he learned landscapes but not people!

4. The Grandin Gallery also houses the original paintings of Mormon and Moroni. Notice that both the plates and a bracelet were handed down from father to son!

5. The crowning feature is an original 1830's Book of Mormon in immaculate condition, it even has its gold title still intact!! It was donated by a Palmyra resident whose only request was that it never leave Palmyra.