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Malad City, Idaho
December 23, 2021 |Vol. 141 No. 29
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Christmas Messages From Church Leaders
Victory Baptist Church
The Malad Idaho LDS Stake
“It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” as a favorite Christmas song proclaims! All around us are symbols of the season: Christmas trees decorated to perfection, lights inside and out, nativity scenes portraying the birth of the Christ Child and beautifully wrapped presents under the tree. Our hearts are a little softer and our desires to serve others more pronounced. We make time in our busy lives to remember the Lord Jesus Christ and bear testimony of His miraculous birth and life.
Christmas is the season when we celebrate the greatest gift ever given. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son” (John 3:16). The prophet Isaiah spoke of the Savior’s birth, “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6). Then came that night of nights when the shep-
herds were abiding in the fields and the angel of the Lord appeared to them announcing, “Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy. . .For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2:10). The shepherds, with haste, went to the manger to pay honor to Christ the Lord. Later, wise men journeyed from the East to Jerusalem, saying: “Where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the east and are come to wor-
Pastor Jack Harwell We are celebrating Christmas, the time over 2000 years ago when a savior was born. He came to be our Salvation and we needed Him. He came to live a life and keep the Law of God when we could not. He was the only one who could do what was needed to be done so we could have Salva-
tion. After living a life to fulfill the Law of God he laid down His life, it was not taken from Him. He died to pay the debt we owe to God. He died to give us a chance to have God’s Salvation. In John, Chapter three, it tells us that God so loved the world He gve us his only begotten Son, and if we believe in Him we will have eter-
nal life with Him. That belief is that Jesus was God come in the flesh and that we are sinners and we need Him. We need to see that—that He is the only way and that we can’t live good enough and expect Him
ship him. . . And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother and fell down and worshipped Him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh" (Matthew 2:2,11). What gifts will you and I give to Him this year? Elder Neal A. Maxwell, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, once observed that “each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!”
President Russell M. Nelson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pleaded with us “to counter the lure of the world by making time for the Lord in your life—each and every day.” The angels and heavenly hosts made time to sing and proclaim His birth. The Shepherds made time for Jesus by leaving their flocks in search of Him. And the wise men traveled a great distance to worship the babe in Bethlehem. All were busy. All had other responsi-
bilities and demands on their time. The call to go to the manger was not convenient. Yet each one, in his or her own way, made time for Jesus and were changed forever. Another disciple changed forever by the Master was Simon Peter. After His resurrection, Jesus met with his Apostles. They ate together and as He prepared to depart, “Jesus saith to Simon Peter, .
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Oneida County Ambulance A Vital Part of Community and the Season Last week, the Oneida County Ambulance EMT crew conducted the extrication of a trapped motorist after a rollover on the I-15, just outside of Exit 13. While an extrication is somewhat uncommon, it is certainly not an unfamiliar task for the members of the ambulance team, who respond to all kinds of incidents in town and on the local roadways. EMTs (Emergency Medical Technicians) are the first line of response for emergency incidents that occur throughout the valley and surrounding areas. Trissa Nesbit started taking EMT classes in 2016, and progressed through the Advanced EMT program to the point where she is now teaching an Advanced
course herself. She also works for the Oneida County Ambulance. Having always wanted to work in emergency medicine, she took the opportunity to do exactly that when she moved back to Malad from South Dakota a few years ago. Given its relatively small population, one might expect that many of the calls are fairly routine. And indeed, that is often true. “A lot of our runs are taking people from our hospital to a higher level of care at different hospitals,” Trissa says. Many of these cases have underlying conditions that are quite serious, and require transport to facilities with more specialized staff for intervention. “We do those
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transports and then we also get a lot of calls for sick people needing to be taken to the hospital, home accidents and numerous car accidents/ rollovers.” Medical
calls are fairly constant during the week, and given the busy status of the I-15, traffic incidents are also a regular feature of the job, especially during weather events.
While Oneida County’s ambulance doesn’t have any paramedics, Nesbit explains that “We have EMR (Emergency Medical Responder), EMT (Emergency
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