My Life in General: Christmas in the Holy Land

Bethlehem Field Trip

Today we went to Bethlehem and saw so many wonderful things about Christ’s birth. We sang every Christmas hymn probably three times throughout the day. I loved every second of it because if you know me you know I am obsessed with the Christmas holiday and all it stands for and the joy that cover the world for however short a time. We started out the day at the Herodion, which is where King Herod built his mausoleum and his fortress. We continued on and visited two churches that commemorated the shepherds that had been visited by the angels, and then we had lunch. After that we went to the Church of the Nativity. It was amazing to see how many people were there and how each of them truly revered the events that had happened in that place. We ended the day in a shepherd’s field with a testimony meeting and devotional.

This is an aerial view of the HUGE swimming pool that Herod built at the Herodion, its also where Herod had his brother-in-law killed… Herod was a little too paranoid for my taste.

This is the fortress on top of the Herodion

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So poor Andrew is about 6’4” and always is hitting his head on door frames because people are WAY shorter in the Middle East… this was the first sign this entire 4 months that he was warned about a short door.

Those stones to the far left were stones used for an attack… I wish you could see the entire size of the rock Andrew is holding it was MASSIVE… oh and Will tried to match Andrew but his rock was just a little bit smaller.