By this shall all
men know that ye ... Jesus and His Apostles
gathered in a place, and then Jesus washed
all of their feet. And He said it was an example,
that they should all love one another as He has loved them.
It was the Last Supper, and
Jesus took His disciples to celebrate that. They all had a
supper, and they ate. And after that, He broke
bread and He blessed it. They all had chunks of
bread and a drink of water. Actually, I think
they had wine then. And then He told them that "this
is what you guys should do." And He said that the bread
symbolized His body, that they should always remember it. And the wine
represented His blood. The sacrament is like baptism
because Jesus was baptized, and--OK, I just don't get this. The sacrament is
a time in church when we eat bread
and drink some water.
It's like the Last Supper. You have to take
some bread and water. To remember about
Jesus's sacrifice. The bread means of
His body or flesh, because it's when
He was crucified. And the water reminds
us of His blood. He went to the
Garden of Gethsemane, and He bled out of every pore
and prayed that everybody would be able to repent.
It's a way to tell
Heavenly Father that I'm going to do my best
this week and I'm going to renew this covenant. You renew your
baptismal covenants. When I was Garrett's age,
whenever I took the sacrament, I'd be like, "I wonder what it
would be like to be baptized." But now I think of
what it was like to be baptized when I
take the sacrament, and it feels really good. The sacrament is a
sacred ordinance, and we don't want to be
thinking about school tomorrow. We want to be focused. When I take the
sacrament, I feel that He's just right
next to me and telling me that I'm doing a good job. I think about how much
pain He probably suffered. When we take it, we
should be remembering of what He did for us
and we should do to Him. It's important to take it, and
it's for remembrance of Him.