They can feel the spirit too...

Last Monday night for Family Home Evening we had a lesson about Easter. We didn't talk about Easter eggs, jelly beans and the Easter bunny. We talked about Jesus, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. Here is the lesson if you want to do it next year...Easter Lesson. Anyways, I used the Gospel Art kit to supplement the lesson so Rowdy and Avery could take turns holding the pictures.

The picture above is one of the pictures that we used in the lesson. It is called The Triumphal Entry. It depicts when Jesus traveled with His disciples to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover, and He entered the city riding on the colt of a donkey. Large crowds of people gathered to honor Jesus. They spread clothing and palm branches in His path. The people rejoiced and shouted, "Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord" (Mark 11:9).

The kids really seemed to enjoy the lesson and were attentive the entire time, mainly because they got to find things, open things and hold pictures. We had fun and we all felt the Spirit.

But it wasn't until Sunday that I felt that they might have understood and retained some of what we talked about. When we walked into church and this same picture was hanging on the wall just as we walked in the building both Avery and Rowdy with so much excitement and joy said "Look! There is the picture of Jesus from Family Home Evening!"

I didn't even notice it...but they did! I was so proud of them!