Happy Easter

Happy Easter from our family to yours.

I am so grateful for the Savior, Jesus Christ. I know that He lives and that through Him, we also will live again after we die. As I have lost many loved ones to death (and know that eventually all those whom I love will die,) the knowledge of the resurrection brings peace and joy to my soul.

Nearly 100 years before the birth of Christ, a prophet named Amulek testified of Christ, of His divine mission, and of the resurrection:

40 And he shall come into the ^aworld to ^bredeem his people; and he shall ^ctake upon him the transgressions of those who believe on his name; and these are they that shall have eternal life, and salvation cometh to none else.

41 Therefore the wicked remain as though there had been ^ano redemption made, except it be the loosing of the bands of death; for behold, the day cometh that ^ball shall rise from the dead and stand before God, and be ^cjudged according to their works.

42 Now, there is a death which is called a temporal death; and the death of Christ shall loose the ^abands of this temporal death, that all shall be raised from this temporal death.

43 The spirit and the body shall be ^areunited again in its ^bperfect form; both limb and joint shall be restored to its proper frame, even as we now are at this time; and we shall be brought to stand before God, ^cknowing even as we know now, and have a bright ^drecollection of all our ^eguilt.

44 Now, this restoration shall come to all, both old and young, both bond and free, both male and female, both the wicked and the righteous; and even there shall not so much as a hair of their heads be lost; but every thing shall be ^arestored to its perfect frame, as it is now, or in the body, and shall be brought and be arraigned before the bar of Christ the Son, and God the ^bFather, and the Holy Spirit, which is ^cone Eternal God, to be ^djudged according to their works, whether they be good or whether they be evil.-- Alma 11

Today was my first day in a new assignment at church; I'll be working with the children of our congregation each week and learning from them as I strive to teach them about Christ. We read scriptures from the New Testament together about the death and resurrection of Jesus. I was touched by the words to a song that we sang towards the end of the meeting:

"Did Jesus really live again, after He had died? Oh yes, and so shall I!" (Children's Songbook, pg. 64) What a blessing to have that knowledge and have your life influenced by it. He is our Savior and Redeemer.