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You know there was a running joke I learned when I was growing up. It was about a man who was running in place on a man hole cover repeating the words, 98. He kept doing this when a man came up to him and asked him why he was doing it. He just kept saying 98....98.... and jogging in place. So this other guy asked if he could try it. The first guy stopped and walked off of it. The second guy got on and started jogging in place and questionably started saying 98....98.... The first guy quickly removed the manhole cover and the second guy dropped down the whole. The cover was replaced and he got back up on it and jogging in place again started saying 99....99.... Ok it is much more funny to see it done in person but you get the idea. So yes it has been a month since I last posted, and a lot has happened. Mainly I have been getting many more hours then I thought to be getting and it has worn me out. I thought to write today since it is the eve of Christmas. The day the world celebrates the birth of our Lord and Savior. Now I know many of you are LDS and you know what we believe in. I want to add to the testimonies that have been born by those many years ago that the Savior really has come and saved us all. He is our old brother and friend. I remember spending Christmas of 2006 alone and knowing I wasn't. He was there with me. He knows who I am and what I was to become in the following years. He paved the way for me to come unto Him and follow Him. If it weren't for His Atonement I could have been cleansed and washed clean from those sins I have had for so long. My anger, my depression, my hurt and pain have been washed away and if I continue to remember to rely on Him and ask for His love and forgiveness I can be fully healed. I am not perfect, far from it, but if each day I strive to do as He would want me to I can one day be like Him. I have a long way to go, but I have started and am continuing. And that is what matters.

So for this Christmas season and for His birth if I can strive everyday to do one thing He would do, I will come closer to Him and be perfected in Him. I testify He is the Living Son of God, He is our Savior and Lord. The King of Kings, our Redeemer and Judge. Praise all glory to His name. And to each may we all have Christ in our hearts this holiday season. I so testify and bear witness in the sacred name of Jesus Christ, Amen.