This year I have been acting like a Scrooge. It might have something to do with the fact that snow has lost its childhood magic when it tried to kill me on the drive home for Thanksgiving. But this year I just wasn't ready for the blustery cold that comes with Christmas. I honestly think it has to do with the fact that I have been dreaming about warm, tropical places like Aruba, St. Thomas and Key West for the past 4 months.
So I've been trying desperately hard to figure out how I can get the Christmas spirit. Our teacher gave us an assignment to find someone more stressed than you and do something nice for them. I thought I had completed the assignment when I asked my Relief Society President if she wanted to go to the temple with me, but on the drive up we saw two girls in skirts walking up University Parkway. Jane told me to pull over and offer them a ride. I was sort of reluctant because I hear my parents echoes of "don't take rides from strangers" but decided that this is BYU and they were obviously harmless.
These girls were walking from Helaman Halls to the temple in the cold wearing summer skirts. I was so glad we gave them a ride because they didn't live far from us and that would have been brutal to walk back with wet hair. They were very grateful that we could help them out and I gained some Christmas spirit hearing Christmas songs in the baptismal font.
Hello Christmas music, boots and ugly sweaters! I found Christmas!!!
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