13/12/2025
The Candon Stake Primary Christmas Party
held yesterday October 13, 2025 at Candon Stake Center.
What Christmas Is?
Christmas has been, and will always be, about the Father, a mother, the infant Jesus Christ, and a plan.
Christmas is about a Father—even our eternal Heavenly Father, who created the spirits of every human being, including our Savior, Jesus Christ. Jesus was the Firstborn of all our Heavenly Father’s premortal spirit children.
Christmas is about a mother, even the blessed mortal woman Mary. She was a pure and holy virgin, whom the ancient prophet Nephi described as being “most beautiful and fair above all other virgins” (1 Nephi 11:15).
Christmas is about the infant child Jesus. From the Father and from Mary came the birth of the most unique individual who ever walked the earth—Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten of the Father “after the manner of the flesh” (1 Nephi 11:18). From His mother, Mary, Jesus inherited mortality, and from God the Father, Jesus inherited the power of resurrection, immortality, and eternal life. Because of His dual nature, only He could bring about the fourth aspect of Christmas.
Christmas is about a plan—God’s plan of redemption for all His children. Why did shepherds and the Wise Men seek the newborn baby Jesus? (see Matthew 2:1). Why did Simeon and Anna rejoice and prophesy about the Christ child when Joseph and Mary brought Him to the temple just a few weeks following His birth? (see Luke 2:25–38). They rejoiced because they understood that the Savior’s mortal birth meant that the Father’s plan—rescue from temporal death and redemption from the spiritual death brought about by the Fall of Adam and Eve and by our own sins—would come to pass. And it could come to pass only through this infant, who would later accomplish an infinite atonement for all people.
