I am suppose to do Sharing Time in Primary this coming Easter Sunday and I need some ideas! I found an idea at http://www.lds.org/ Sharing Time - Testimony of Easter It's a little program with thoughts, scriptures and songs:

The Easter story is a story of love. Heavenly Father loves us so much that He sent His Son to earth to atone for our sins. Jesus loves Heavenly Father; He was willing to obey Him. And Jesus loves each one of us. He gave His life so that we may be forgiven when we do something wrong and repent. . . . . .

. . .Jesus died and then was resurrected, which means that He lived—and lives—again. We do not fully understand how Jesus can live again, so we think of it as a miracle. There are many miracles all around us that help us understand the resurrection of Jesus.

Winter time is long and dark; The flowers and seeds are sleeping. They wait for the light of the sun to awaken them. The warmth of spring brings them to life again, Like a testimony of the Easter story. A wonderful thing happens in spring—The birds sing, the grass becomes green, The world is awake with the promise of life, Restoring the earth in its fullness.


Song: “Nature’s Easter Story”

Tiny brown buds become blossoms on a tree

Dry bulbs pressed deep into the earth bloom again.

A little egg inside a nest becomes a bird.

From a gray cocoon, hidden beneath a leaf, comes a beautiful butterfly.

These tiny miracles help us to understand the greatest miracle of all, the Resurrection. When the stone was rolled away that Easter day, Jesus had risen from His tomb.

“He is not here: for he is risen” (Matt. 28:6).

I would like to also use these pictures for F.H.E tomorrow, I think it's a great way to explain the Easter Story to our little kids. Please leave a comment if you have any ideas for an Easter themed sharing time.

This year we are starting a new tradition of having our Easter Egg hunt on the first day of spring. The Easter bunny will come and hopefully it will be nice weather so he can hide eggs in our back yard for the first time since we have lived in our house. The first year for Easter it was raining and last year Penny was in the Hospital with Pnemonia. Since we don't have family close by we are just going to have a little potluck with some friends, have the kids make a homemade Easter Bunny bag and then they can follow the foot prints of the Easter bunny to the back yard. We will color eggs for our F.H.E activity. Then on Easter Sunday we want to go watch the sunrise (we are going to wake up the kids instead of them waking us up :) and then at 7:30 am there is going to be a special musical program at the Boise Temple outside. Hopefully it will be a special day focused on the true meaning of Easter.

So, that sums up what we have to look forward to this week!

Good Night Friends and Family

Love ya :)