Christmas in our Stake- Webster

When our Grandmother was, alive we would gather as family each Christmas and go Christmas carolling  in a very rural community of Upper Kispiox Valley. Homes were far apart but we travelled to each home to sing for our friends and family.  

We arrived one Christmas Eve at a home of a very elderly German woman who was bedridden and we knew she was very religious.  Her family asked if we would please come in and gather around her bedside to sing for her. We opened with Away in a Manger and this tiny frail woman had such tears of joy running down her cheeks that we could hardly sing as we all had tears ourselves as we felt the spirit so strongly in that small room that night. We closed with Silent Night and this lady had all of us bend over to to kiss each one of us in thanks. She spoke German but we all knew she was thanking us with such gratitude for thinking to come to her home and sing.

Mrs Steinbeizzer passed away shortly after and her family told us that our family coming to sing around her bedside was such a blessing at that time. Just small gestures of this kind can mean so much for others and we are blessed for doing it. 

Submitted by Stephanie Webster

Kamloops 2nd Ward