Giving gifts is one of the joys of Christmastime. And, more importantly, it's a type and shadow of God's gift to us — His only Son!

Some people put a lot of thought into the gifts they give others, especially their closest family and friends. But sometimes you just need a quick little goody. Today, we're going to show you how to use our Good Cheer Greetings to create small, last-minute Christmas gifts and stocking stuffers.

You can use these as party favors, thank-you tokens, or calendar fillers.

Whether you decorated your house weeks ago or you're just starting to put a few things up, it's wonderful when your home can reflect the true meaning of Christmas rather than just its cultural icons.

That's why we brought you our 10 Good Cheer Greetings. Today, we're going to show you some quick, easy ways to decorate your home with them … home, office cubicle, school locker, Sunday school classroom, etc.

Did you miss the Christmas gift that we gave you last week? Well, today, we're bringing you another way to use your Good Cheer Greetings (those cute Christmas printable graphics) as décor around your home this holiday season.

Chances are you're starting to get some Christmas cards in the mail. Instead of stowing them in a box or haphazardly sticking them to your fridge, why not make your own Christmas card wall display? Today, we show you how.

(Again, the point of our Good Cheer Greetings is to offer a simple, cute way to place messages about God around your home at this wonderful time of year.)

Surprise! The Gospel Blog has a Christmas gift to give each one of you!

This year, we're treating you to 10 cute digital designs that you can download, print, and use however you like.

These fun graphics display some of our favorite Christmastime scriptures and song lyrics. We hope they inspire you.

It's All Hallows' Eve, and we're just one day away from November — the month when we celebrate thankfulness and gratitude.

We at the Gospel Blog think that it's the perfect day to kick off a fun Thanksgiving project. We're calling it Dare to Share.

Here's how it works — very simple!

When you were little, did your parents (or grandma or Uncle Bob) have to drag you to church kicking and screaming, or were you the first one in the car ready to leave on Sunday morning?

Chances are that your answer isn't as simple as these two polar opposites. Maybe you liked attending church when you knew there would be a kids' class or a potluck lunch. Perhaps church was more difficult when you were smaller and constantly squirming in your seat, and it got easier when you finally grew tall enough to see over the pews to get a good view of the goings on.

For those attending GMBA Camp, it's goodbye day. The morning is usually filled with hugs, tears, exchanging of phone numbers and emails, and the frantic packing of luggage. Some campers — particularly the younger set — didn't get a wink of sleep last night, enjoying every last drop of fellowship time.

More than any of that, we believe that many campers are going home armed with important spiritual convictions, insights, and challenges that they plan to live out in their daily lives. This is the true spirit of GMBA Camp. The warm, fuzzy feeling that we have when we're there is great. But it's the takeaway that has lasting impact.

For the nine (as of our last count) souls in particular who requested baptism this week, the takeaway will be no less than life changing.

Who is featured in today's Camper Spotlight? Who gave their personal take on the camp theme? Will I see anyone I know in the photos?

Click here to satisfy your curiosity about GMBA Camp by reading the latest newsletter, Words for the Way. This is the same newsletter (with minor modifications) that the campers receive onsite each day.

Our Gospel Blog camp correspondent, Sister Linda Scolaro is bringing you the question of the day. She reports that the adult seminars have centered on themes in, believe it or not, the "Wizard of Oz."

Today we've got another camp newsletter for you. We hope you've been enjoying the spotlights, personal messages, and photos.

Click here to read Words for the Way! Another shout-out to newsletter coordinator Sister Christine Martorana for sharing these with us.

The Gospel Blog also has boots on the ground at GMBA. Sister Vicki Ali, another of our camp correspondents, is bringing you our question of the day. She asked, "If you had to pick a personal quote of the day from chapel, seminars, or your fellowship time, what would it be?"

If you missed yesterday's post, we're dedicating this week on the blog to bringing you a bit of GMBA Camp if you aren't able to attend. 

Each day, everyone at camp gets a newsletter called "Words for the Way," and we're bringing you that same newsletter so you can feel a part of the spirit even if you're hundreds of miles away. 

Click here to read today's newsletter!

We hope that you are enjoying a wonderful Independence Day! There is a lot to reflect on today in terms of our nation, and we hope that this holiday prompts you to pray for our leaders and our fellow citizens. 

The natural world is one of the clearest, most beautiful ways that we can see and experience God in a somewhat tangible way, don't you think? When we witness a wave curl and crash, or we can't look away from the flicker at the end of a wick, or we're stunned into silence by a peacock crossing our path — this actually happened to me a couple of weeks ago! — the ho-hum brushes up, even just for a moment, against hoo-whee-wow.

A picture is worth a thousand words, and people across the globe took over 1 trillion photos in 2015, estimates Mylio.com in its online magazine. (If 1 billion people take three photos per day, then that's 1 trillion-plus photos per year.) Four-by-six prints of all those photos laid side by side would reach from the earth to the moon … and back.

And those pictures aren't in private albums like they would've been before the digital age. They're online for all to see because it's effortless to share them. Of course, we see the not-so-great pictures, hastily snapped, thoughtlessly posted. You know the ones I mean. But then there are the wonderful ones … the ones that reflect …

This month, we asked our kids a very simple question: How long do you think it would take a grown-up to read all the way through the Bible and Book of Mormon?

We were wondering how different a child's perception of time is from an adult's. Also…how much confidence do they have in us as spiritual speed readers?

Here are some replies from the 6 to 10 year-olds in Columbus, OH who pondered how long it would take their mothers to read both books.

Today concludes our mission to memorize Psalm 19:7-14. How did you do? Was it difficult? Easier than you expected? Post a comment telling us about your experience. 

We've also got another free printable page with this week's graphics. When printed, they should be roughly the size of a business card so that you can cut them out and keep them handy so you can keep up your memorization in the future. We really hope that memorizing scripture has brought you into closer contact with God's word!