Sacrament Meeting With Trey and Trenton

So I was in sacrament meeting with Trey and Trenton the other day because Amber was home with sick kids and we had a pretty neat experience. In an effort to help the boys focus on Christ for the sacrament I invited them to think about the symbolism for the bread, water and the covering of the sacrament with the cloth.  A minute later Trey whispers, "Dad, I think I know the answer." I asked him to wait a couple minutes until the sacrament was done and then we would talk about it. He faced the front again only to turn back to me a few seconds later and say, "Dad, can't I just tell you right now?"  I responded in the affirmative and Trey proceeded to tell me (with agreement from Trenton) that the reason why the bread and water were covered was so that the teenagers that were blessing the sacrament wouldn't sneak any bread or water before it was time :-)

I got a good chuckle out of that but wanted them to still understand it a little better and so I invited them to tell me what the bread and water represented...they responded correctly that it represented the body and blood of Christ. I then had them recall how Jesus' friends had covered his body when they put it in the tomb and that is when the light clicked on for Trey and I watched as the Holy Ghost taught him about the sacrament.  

"Oooohhhhh!" He said, "Now I get it! The cloth covers e bread and water just like Jesus' body was covered in the tomb and then when they uncover the bread and water it is like the resurrection when Jesus' body was uncovered!"  Such a cool experience to see how the spirit works with all of us to understand things that will help us in our quest to become more like the Savior and understand Him better. Also a testimony to the reality of God and that He really does help us individually and teach us individually.

Because of Him...The power of Christ over death

Because of Him

This week we celebrate Christ's victory over death. Tonight's family home evening lesson was about the Atonement and Resurrection of Our Savior, The Lord Jesus Christ. We took the kids to the cemetery to see the grave sites of my three brothers and one sister. This hallowed ground was once a place of tears and sorrow but will, in the day of the resurrection, be a place of joy and triumph. To quote from the prophet Abinadi: 

  "6 And now if Christ had not come into the world, speaking of things to come as though they had already come, there could have been no redemption.

7 And if Christ had not risen from the dead, or have broken the bands of death that the grave should have no victory, and that death should have no sting, there could have been no resurrection.

8 But there is a resurrection, therefore the grave hath no victory, and the sting of death is swallowed up in Christ.

9 He is the light and the life of the world; yea, a light that is endless, that can never be darkened; yea, and also a life which is endless, that there can be no more death."

 (Mosiah 16:6-9)