Easter week days 3-4 Light of the world

On Tuesday I was not feeling well with a terrible headache-the kind that hurts when you move your head, so we didn't do anything on Tuesday night-except read some scriptures in the New Testament about what Jesus did.

Last night, we talked again about what Jesus did in Jerusalem during his last week of life. We read in John 12: 34-36 how the people were asking him who is the Son of man, and who is the Messiah who abideth forever. Apparently, they thought there was a distinction between the two.

He answered them,

"Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light."

So, we made candles.

I have some candle making supplies from back when I made them for the teachers in primary, they came in handy this night.

Each of the kids wanted to make a different color, so we poured wax into little jars for each of them and let them stir in whatever color they wanted. They also stirred in a little vanilla fragrance because Jesus taught at the temple the last week of his life, and they used to burn incense in temples those days, and the fragrance was to symbolize the incense.

After the wax was thoroughly colored and "fragranced", we poured them into the jello egg molds we have. William really liked this part-especially using the funnel.

Then we put them into the freezer for a few minutes.

And here are our finished egg candles!