3/27/2023
Hey another week has gone by and lots of teaching has happened this week! It is so much fun to teach!!! And we are teaching more everyday! Lots of exciting things are happening and coming up in the mission and in life! We have General Conference and Easter coming, such a fun exciting time! But here is a story that was told to me by my mission president and I love and cherish it!
As
Easter time approaches, let me share with you the tender story of an
eleven-year-old boy named Philip, a Down’s syndrome child who was in a
Sunday School class with eight other children.
Easter
Sunday the teacher brought an empty plastic egg for each child. They
were instructed to go out of the church building onto the grounds and
put into the egg something that would remind them of the meaning of
Easter.
All returned joyfully. As each egg was
opened there were exclamations of delight at a butterfly, a twig, a
flower, a blade of grass. Then the last egg was opened. It was Philip’s,
and it was empty!
Some of the children made fun of Philip. “But, teacher,” he said, “teacher, the tomb was empty.”
A
newspaper article announcing Philip’s death a few months later noted
that at the conclusion of the funeral eight children marched forward and
put a large empty egg on the small casket. On it was a banner that
said, “The tomb was empty.”
Matthew 28:1
"In
the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the
week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher."
I
have a strong testimony of our Savior Jesus Christ I know he lives! He
has walked the streets with me everyday here in NYC! Love you all have a
great week!
Elder Laing
