Christmas Song Guessing Games

Here are a couple of games that involves guessing Christmas songs.  I got these years ago from  a PTA social.  Download the images and print up a copy for each person who wants to play.  

Name the Christmas song:

answers:

Game #2

Answers:  

Christmas greetings through the years! With love, The Magpad

"We find the real joy of Christmas when we make 

the Savior the focus of the season."  

~Thomas S. Monson

(Click on each picture to get a clear view of the words on the card)

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Married December 28, 1977

Merry Christmas! 

With love,  The Magpad

Face to Face with The Piano Guys

On Tuesday night I watched Face to Face with The Piano Guys.  

You can enjoy watching a couple of clips from the program.

The program opener was the group playing, What Makes You Beautiful.

  
 You can also see the video by clicking here

Impromptu Jaz piece with The Piano Guys and a couple of people from the audience

You can also see the video by clicking here.

Jon Schmidt is playing the piano upside down and backwards

You can also see this video by clicking here.  

Deseret News explains what The Piano Guys did during the Face to Face program:

The Piano Guys answered youths' questions about maintaining their standards in the music industry, finding happiness, keeping the Sabbath day holy and many other topics. They also performed several songs, including an arrangement of "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" and "I Need Thee Every Hour" that they created specifically for this event.

You can watch the whole program by clicking here

The Power of Music

I was blessed to grow up in a home where I was exposed to a lot of music.  My brothers and I had our own record player with a record collection of children's songs.  My mom had albums of  musicals, like Camelot and movies, like Sound of Music.  My mom played the organ at our church, so I was exposed to hymns.  My mother was also the pianist for a singing trio.  My mom listened to the radio station KABL, San Francisco (a music station that played classics)  as we drove around in the car.  We watched Andy Williams TV show faithfully.  As a teenager in the 60's and 70 I listened to a lot of Beatle's and Monkees music.  (Hey, Hey, we're the Monkees!)

I always knew music was powerful.  As I listen to Somewhere Over the Rainbow, I am taken back to my childhood where I am watching The Wizard of Oz in our family room with my family.  This clip shows how song writers use music to touch our lives and take our emotions places.

You can also see the video by clicking here

Friendship

I will alway cherish the close association and friendship we've been able to enjoy for the past 8 and 9 years with Kent and Sue Cornwall, and Walter and April Steimle as Scott, Kent and Walter served together in the Arcadia Stake.

This picture wast taken in the Steimle's lovely new home in Bakersfield.  

Jesu, the Very Thought is Sweet

I enjoyed watching Elder Richard G. Scott's funeral this past week.  As I listened to this song that was sung at his funeral, I felt so much peace.  After you listen to this song, I'm sure you will agree with me.  

You can also see the song by clicking here.  

I showed this clip from the funeral to my seminary class the next day.  Elder Scott's son, Michael W. Scott beautifully describes the type of person his father was by using the scripture mastery scripture found in  Abraham 3:22-23.

You can see the above click by clicking here.  

You can see the whole funeral by clicking here.   

The funeral program starts at 19:30 on the funeral video  

Rally 'Round the Flag - Richard Elliott

This performance by Richard Elliot is a Magnusson favorite.  Enjoy!

You can also see the video by clicking here.  

Earthquake!

All LDS missionaries safe after earthquake in Chile displaces 1 million people

I got the headline and picture from a Deseret News article  here

Many of our family and friends have called me to ask if I heard the news: There was an 8.3 earthquake in Chile! Sam is serving in Chile, Rancauga Mission. He is assigned to work in the city of San Javier. The news reported that earthquake is near the city of Illapel. I looked up the milage between the two cities and San Javier is about 150 miles south of Illapel. I’m pretty sure that Elder Magnusson is out of harm’s way, but I’m sure that there are missionaries serving in the Illapel area along with Chilean people that could use our prayers at this time.

2 hours later.....

We received this email from Sam's mission president.

Dear parents-you have seen on the news that this evening we had a strong earthquake here in Chile near Coquimbo which is about 350 miles north of us on the coast.  We felt the main earthquake and a number of aftershocks here in our mission.  We do not have cell service with some parts of the mission at this time but we have established communications with the majority of our missionaries and they are all fine.  There have been no reports of structural damage or injuries in the general population. 

We have 10 missionaries who are on the coast and they are taking precautions regarding possible tsunami events.  Those cities involved are Pichilemu and Constitución.  No other cities or areas of our mission are at risk of a tsunami.   We are blessed to have members and local leaders in both towns who take a great deal of interest in the safety and well-being of our missionaries.  

We will send out another email tomorrow after we have made contact with 100% of our missionaries.

If you have any questions please do not reply to this general email address but rather email me directly at -------------

Thanks for your prayers and support.

Warmest regards,

Presidente Warne
Misión Chile Rancagua

This email was sent to us this morning from the mission president:

Dear parents-thank you for your patience with us as we reestablish communications with our missionaries this morning.  As expected the cellular networks were overloaded last night after the earthquake and it became impossible to make contact with some sectors of our mission.  We have now had contact with 100% of our missionaries and they are all fine.  We were confident of this last evening but called each companionship this morning once service was restored.  There were no issues with tsunamis in our coastal towns of Pichilemu and Constitución.  We appreciate your love and concern for the missionaries and this great work.  Again, if you have any questions please do not reply to this email but rather contact me at -----------

Warmest regards,

Presidente Warne
Misión Chile Rancagua

Here is one more communication about the earthquake from Deseretnews.com  with the headline:  All LDS missionaries safe after earthquake in Chile.  Displaces 1 million people.  

This video talks about a missionary who was serving in Chile during the 2010 earthquake.

You can also see the video by clicking here and cue it up to 0:30-2:40