Tonight, after dinner Aaron, Candice and the kids all gathered for Family Home Evening. Aislyn accompanied on the piano as we sang a song from her piano book. "Pop Corn Popping on the Apricot Tree."
Aislyn prepared the lesson. She chose to tell us about Jesus and how he was taught by Joseph how to be a carpenter. Her story was short and told about him learning how to work with his hands in Joseph's shop.
We also talked about how Jesus was teaching in the temple to the Elders and his parents went three days from the place they went for the Passover. During our lesson, Joel followed Aislyn as she tucked away her picture back in the blue box of pictures.
Joel decided he wanted one of them and pulled one at random to bring to his Daddy to share with the rest of us. Was it by coincidence that he pulled the picture of Jesus in the Temple at age twelve teaching the Elders? We all just sat there in awe by how Joel just went over and pulled it out.
He was sure a sweet addition to our lesson. Aaron read the story and finished off the lesson. After that Ella played a song from her piano book as we sang, the closing song.
We had prayer and closed our family home evening. I was touched by all their participation, even Joel's help and the prayers for those in the family, Kris, on his mission and a little friend, Lindsay H. who had surgery this week, to remember them in our prayers.
It was a little bit of heaven.
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