Family Home Evening

After General Conference yesterday, Eric and I were both extremely touched by the new fund the Church has put together to help people attending the temple for the first time. We've decided to donate to that fund and help the girls save their "monies" to help, too. So we printed out the above picture with the caption "Helping Other Families Be Together Forever" and put it on a jar. We talked about how much we love each other and how much we love to be together and how we never want to be apart. We then talked about what it means to be sealed using a simple object lesson. We talked about sweet Mallory and how, because we are sealed, we will see her again and be with her forever. Eric showed a picture of the world and how lucky we are to have so many temples close to us and how lots of places in the world do not live close to a temple at all and how hard it would be for a family to not be able to be sealed. Then we let the girls do a few jobs (put away toys, etc) to earn some coins to put in the jar. Boy, were they excited! It was the best part of the whole lesson for Emiline! We'll see how long they stay interested in it, but are going to do our best to fill the jar this week (it's a small jar) and then turn it in on Sunday. Next week for Family Home Evening, we'll head to the temple.