For the next several days I will be posting about the World Congress of Families. This year it is being held in Sydney, Australia.  Remember how we helped to raise funds for Angela to attend? She is sending daily reports of the presentations, interviews she is able to have, and more. I am excited to share with you what she is experiencing. There are so many around the world - politicians, religious leaders, community organizers, trained professionals, and others - who are dedicated to defending the family. I will try to post each day's events in order so you are not reading them backwards as you scroll down. I have broken up Angela's summaries into several posts so it isn't overwhelming to see a HUGE post. Remember, if you have any questions you would like her to ask when she gives her interviews, leave them in the comments and I will pass them along to her.

An Easter Countdown: The Atonement

This activity goes along with day seven of The Living Christ: An Easter Countdown.

carnations

Two simple object lessons were done today to show how Christ takes away our sins. The first was a replica of this one shown by Jocelyn with a white carnation and water dyed red. Although we could see pink tinges in the center of the flowers just a few hours later, we will have to wait several days to see the full results. Oh yes, and everyone wanted their own flower so I guess we'll have lots of red tinged carnations!

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The other object lesson we did also included dye and water. As we talked about sins that we commit we added a drop of food coloring into a small bowl of water. (Just a drop is PLENTY for this lesson) Then as we discussed the cleansing power of the atonement we added a few drops of bleach (more like a spoonful) to the dyed water and watched as the color was taken away.

Simple, yet effective, visual lessons that helped the younger ones particularly learn about the power of the atonement in our lives. How grateful we are to a loving Savior and Redeemer!

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2 comments:

  1. Yay for the carnations! And I LOVE the bleach analogy! Excellent!

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  2. The flower idea is so fun. I remember doing the same thing to lilies of the valley.

    The dye and bleach lesson is in the Primary outline for tomorrow's lesson. Trouble for me is that a boy did "exactly" the same lesson last week for his talk. I've been trying to think of other ideas all week.

    Thanks for sharing!

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