Our Easter Family Message

First, we just wanted to wish everybody a Happy Easter. Secondly, we wanted to share a little thought from our family to yours. After Taylor collected her plastic eggs, we got in a circle and began to open them one by one. In most of the eggs there was a little piece of candy. But three of the eggs were different. In one egg was a set of scriptural verses that we turned to and read about the life, ministry, atonement, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In the next egg was a picture of Christ. We talked about how Christ was placed in a tomb as His burial place. The final egg was empty and it was cute how Taylor immediately got ready to throw this egg on the floor as she declared, "all gone." I grabbed her hand and said that this was a special egg. We had such a special experience as we talked about how glad we were that this egg was empty because it represented the empty tomb of the Savior when He was resurrected. It is this thought that we wish to share with all. As each of us both individually and as families go through our seperate hardships, the only empty feeling or place should be the tomb in which our Savior left behind. Because He is risen, we too can rise above our trials, sorrows, loses, and difficult times. How grateful we are for the Atonement of Jesus Christ and that because of Him, we can truly be together as a family, FOREVER!!