42. "Surely there could not be a happier people!"
We live in a world with many problems. When we turn on the news, or read the paper, a lot of the news is negative. Yes, the Christmas Season does soften people's hearts more than other times of the year. We often read of good deeds done by very caring and unselfish people. There are numerous places we can donate money to make the lives of the less fortunate people better. This truly is the time to do that. I have often wondered what it would have been like to have lived in the Americas, right after Jesus Christ came and visited and taught them. Some of the scriptures in 4th Nephi in The Book Of Mormon give us an idea of those days: (4th Nephi is just one chapter, so I'll mention the verse number) 2. And it came to pass in the thirty and sixth year, (remember that Jesus came and taught them in A.D. 34 and 35 -- they reckoned their time from the birth of Christ,--so this was the next year) the people were all converted unto the Lord, upon all the face of the land