1098. How Joseph Smith Spent His Last Christmas, from LDS Living, and 2 beautiful Christmas Videos!



 I hope you are all feeling good, and having a wonderful Christmas season.

This first beautiful Christmas video was sent to me by a friend.

   Be sure and have your sound on, and then click on the link.  You'll love these!

I went to the Tabernacle Choir site, and also saw this one.
They both brought tears !


I love you all, and hope you are all well, and happy, and really feeling the Spirit of Christmas.


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How Joseph Smith Spent His Last Christmas


Mormon Life

The 1843 Christmas in Nauvoo was the last one Joseph Smith Jr. was to spend on earth. No one knew that just six months later he would be martyred in Carthage Jail. Perhaps no Christmas was more pleasant to the Prophet than this last one.
Joseph and Emma had just moved into the spacious quarters of the newly constructed Mansion House in Nauvoo. In the early morning hours, everyone in the household was awakened by beautiful music. A group of Saints had gathered outside the windows of the Mansion House and were serenading Joseph, his family, and guests with "Mortals awake! with angels join' . . . which caused a thrill of pleasure to run through my soul," Joseph wrote. "All of my family and boarders arose to hear the serenade, and I felt to thank my Heavenly Father for their visit, and blessed them in the name of the Lord." The group then went to Hyrum Smith's house to sing. Hyrum said that when he awakened and heard the beautiful music, "he thought . . . a cohort of angels had come to visit him" because the music sounded so heavenly.
That afternoon, a large party of about 100 people sat down with Joseph and Emma in the Mansion House to feast on Christmas dinner. Afterward, they spent the evening in music and dancing "in a most cheerful and friendly manner."
During the festivities, the Prophet's longtime beloved friend Orrin Porter Rockwell arrived from nearly a year's imprisonment without conviction in Missouri. This rare and unexpected gift closed the activities of a beautiful Christmas Day as Joseph rejoiced that God had delivered Rockwell out of the hands of his enemies.

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