Welcome to This Is The Gospel, an LDS living podcast where we feature real stories from

real people who are practicing and living their faith every day.

I'm your host, Corinne Lee.

I want to come clean about something.

Up until a few years ago, if you asked me how I felt about Easter, I would have said,

I'm more of a Christmas kind of girl.

But recently, I've had a change of heart.

Maybe it's the new Come Follow Me curriculum guiding my study of the Savior's life, but

I feel so grateful that the last week of his life was so well documented in the scriptures,

because it has helped make Easter come alive to me.

There's something amazing about being able to spend the week leading up to this holy day,

experiencing these critical events in the Savior's life as a dynamic, progressive holiday

through his apostles' words.

It's not just the resurrection of Easter Sunday that I celebrate.

There's the throwing money changers out of the temple on Monday and breaking bread with

his disciples for the last time on Thursday and being brutally denounced by the very people

he was sacrificing everything for on Good Friday.

Though we primarily focus on the beautiful miracle of the resurrection as we celebrate

Easter, there was a lot that Christ had to go through to get us all to that miracle.

And I find it comforting to know that throughout his mortal process, he chose to feel pain

in order to sucker us in ours.

While the details of those days leading up to his resurrection are sometimes hard to hear

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