Grandma Michele Garvin's Testimony of the Plan of Salvation - It is true!!!!

Craig and I have been trying to find ways to help 

teach our grandchildren that death is temporary, 

since my death appears to be imminent, 

and have tried finding ways to emphasize the good news is that 

Life is ETERNAL! 

The other day my sweet hospice nurse brought over a little lesson that helped spring board ideas to share with our grandchildren.

Below is a picture copy of the white and pink glove the nurse made       for us.  We had a little FHE lesson with some of our older grandchildren who were here.  We asked them to draw what they       thought their spirit looked like on the white glove and then draw                    what their bodies looked like on the pink glove.  

We then talked about the process called, "birth".  We explained that our spirits have been alive for so much longer than our bodies.  Before we were born, we lived in Heaven with our Father and Mother and our spirit bodies had already been created in spirit forms in Heaven. (white glove)

The time finally arrived for our earthly spirits to come to earth and gain a body (this process we call "birth")

As our physical bodies were born our spirits (white glove) slipped perfectly right inside 

of our new earthly physical body (pink glove)

Wow - Pretty Impressive - It's a PERFECT  FIT!!!!

We were so exited when we found out that we got to bring 

both our spirit and our physical bodies with us to earth!

Many years went by and soon it was time for us to talk about another process we call "death".  

It didn't take long to realize that no one liked 

talking about this subject.  

Why?  

Maybe it's because we don't understand that word.

We explained to the kids that soon it was going to be time for Grandma Garvin to go through the next process called, "Death."

We tried to illustrate this process by taking off the pink glove, which represented (Grandma's physical body) and showing them that the white glove, representing

(Grandma's Spirit) was still there and would always be there!

For fun we took some flights in the air with the white glove, to show the freedom from disease and peace that Grandma Garvin's body will be able to experience after Death and Resurrection. 

We want all of our grandchildren to realize that 

Grandma's spirit will never die, 

but will last through out all Eternity!

That's the beauty and importance of being sealed together as a family for all eternity!

At the end of this little lesson, I bore my testimony to my grandchildren and told them how grateful I was for the sure knowledge I had of the great Plan of Salvation!

IT IS TRUE!!!!!

Because of the Savior and his RESURRECTION

we will ALL LIVE AGAIN!!!!!

I expressed my gratitude for my Savior and for his great love and sacrifice he gave to each of us 

through the Atonement to make it all possible.  

And to think of it...........This earth life is NOT the end.  We still have a glorious Eternity to look forward together!! 

Several ideas were taken from references below:

We took out the (pink) glove and placed it on the table.  We explained that even though the glove is shaped like a hand, it cannot move like a hand can because it is not alive.  When a hand is placed inside the glove, then the glove can move.  (We put our hand into the glove and wiggled our fingers.)  We explained that the pink glove is like our physical body, and the hand or white glove is like our spirit. 

Our bodies cannot move without our spirits inside them. 

Our spirits cannot be seen inside our bodies, just as the hand inside the glove cannot be seen. 

( Boyd K. Packer, Teach Ye Diligenty [Salt Lake City:  Deseret Book Co., 1975], pp. 231-33.)