Have you verbalized what happened in the Garden of Gethsemane? The Savior Jesus Christ’s atonement is the pinnacle event in our eternal journey, yet it’s often the most difficult to describe.

I wanted to know how children would describe the scenes of Gethsemane. Some of the children didn’t know how to respond. But most of the children definitely have an idea of the price the Savior paid for them in that garden.

A question about repentance follows. For me, repentance represents our journey to the Garden of Gethsemane. Gratefully, we always find Jesus there and as we lay our burdens at His feet, He willingly takes them from us. “I stand all amazed at the love Jesus offers me…oh, it is wonderful to me!”

What Happened in the Garden of Gethsemane?

Shailym (10) – Jesus Christ went there to pray. He sacrificed his life for us.

Amelia (10) – Jesus asked Heavenly Father if the bitter cup could be taken from him but that couldn’t happen so he had to do it. His sweat was blood and he felt all of our sins while his followers were sleeping. And then the people came and took him away.

Lynlee (9) – In the Garden of Gethsemane, he prayed to Heavenly Father and he did the atonement so that we can repent and he got taken away by the guards so he would die because they didn’t like him. Mom said the priests were jealous because everyone liked Jesus more than them.

Ana Julia (10) – In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus Christ prayed to Heavenly Father hoping that he would forgive all the people that have sinned.

Annie (9) – He bled all our troubles and sorrows.

Nizana (5) – He prayed to live with God.

Kyla (11) – Jesus atoned for our sins which also means he suffered for all our sins and he bled from every pore of his body.

Emmett (3) – Gardens and birds were here.

Bratcher (5) – He died for us.

Dezi (12) – Jesus atoned for our sins.

Keahu (6) – Jesus went to pray and the soldiers came and Judas kissed him and betrayed him.

Emilia (5) – He climbed the hill. (She’s singing the song “Gethsemane.”)

Joshua (5) – Jesus gave a gift.

Kobe (8) – Jesus bled for us.

Ka’ihi (10) – Jesus performed the atonement for our sins and we could be forgiven. I’m guessing when he’d said he had forgiven people of their sins, it didn’t actually happen until he performed the atonement?

Kailie (11) – Jesus bled for our sins and for all the sins of the world.

Kate (10) – In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus paid for everyone’s sins in the past, present, and future.

Adam (4) – Jesus climbed the hill to the garden still, his steps were heavy and slow. Love and a prayer took him there, to the place only he could go.

Asher (7) – Jesus took our sins.

Evie (9) – Jesus repented for all of our sins.

Addy (7) – Jesus prayed to God and bled from his body due to the pain of our sins.

Beau (8) – I’m pretty sure that is where Joseph Smith or someone prayed.

Alise (12) – Christ suffered for the sins of the world.

Rory (4) – A prophet. A forest.

Chase (10) – Adam and Eve were born and they were supposed to get married and have a baby but they needed to eat the fruit and Satan told them to but they were not supposed to but Satan eventually made them eat it but they disobeyed Jesus so they had to leave the garden.

Eva (5) – Jesus brought some friends and they were getting so tired because Jesus was taking so long. Then they took him to Judas.

Rachel (8) – Jesus Christ was in the Garden of Gethsemane and he took upon him all of our sins and bled from every pore.

Samuel (6) – Jesus loved them.

Jaxon (5) – Jesus prayed.

Elisabeth (9) – Jesus prayed.

Kalani (8) – Jesus prayed and asked to forgive all the people on Earth.

Gabby (6) – Jesus prayed for everyone.

Shen (10) – Jesus prayed for us.

Kamila (5) – Jesus prayed on a big rock.

Akilah (8) – Jesus prayed so people can be forgiven.

Hina (4) – Jesus prayed. For love (made a heart with her hands).

Bailey (10) – Jesus suffered for our sins and he did the atonement.

Ian (9) – Jesus suffered for our sins, bled from every pore.

William (5) – Jesus went there and he prayed for all of the people’s sins.

McKean (8) – Jesus went to pray.

Kilikina (4) – Um, the naughty people came. (Mom- then what happened?) I don’t know.

Lila (8) – That’s the one where he bled. He suffered all our sins there and that was where people found him to take him away.

James (3) – The bugs.

Sydney (7) – Who prayed there? I don’t remember who prayed there. Somebody prayed there.

How Do We Repent?

Aubrey (4) – I just don’t know. I know lots of things. I know Jesus, I know Santa, I know diamonds, I know jewelry.

William (5) – When you make a bad choice, you repent for your bad doings. So when you pray for Jesus, you will learn to be nice to others and be kind to babies.

Tyler (7) – When we’re tempted.

Tayj (7) – By showing kindness.

Sydney (7) – Pray

Sophia (6) – What does repent mean? You say sorry.

Shen (10) – Pray.

Shazer (5) – When we say sorry.

Shailym (10) – We say, “I’m sorry,” and pray to God for forgiveness.

Samuel (6) – Believe in God.

Rory (4) – I think it means you have to do the spirit of what people ask you to do.

Rachel (8) – By praying and asking for forgiveness.

Paenoa (8) – By saying prayers and saying sorry to God or JEsus.

Nizana (5) – We say sorry.

McKean (8) – We pray to God and ask for forgiveness.

Matthew (7) – We pray.

Lynlee (9) – we stop doing the bad things that we did and we say a prayer of forgiveness

Lila (8) – We pray and ask for forgiveness.

Kyla (11) – We ask for forgiveness of everything we’ve done bad to Heavenly Father and Jesus in prayer.

Kobe (8) – In our prayers, we say sorry for the bad things we did.

Kilikina (4) – We say were are sorry to all of our family.

Keahu (6) – Do good things and obey

Kate (10) – We repent by, well, first we sin and then when we feel bad for our sin and we say we’re sorry and we don’t do it again.

Kamila (5) – It’s like when you do something bad and then you make it right and say sorry.

Kalani (8) – We can repent by saying a prayer and asking Jesus to forgive us.

Kailie (11) – We take the sacrament and we can pray and ask for repentance.

Ka’ihi (10) – Start by saying sorry to the person you did a wrong to, then you pray and say sorry for the sin you’ve done against Heavenly Father and make sure you don’t do it again.

Joshua (5) – By following the commandments

Jaxon (5) – You be kind.

James (3) – Jesus.

Ian (9) – We ask for forgiveness intently. And if we’ve done something wrong to someone else, we say sorry and we fix what’s wrong if possible. And try not to do it again.

Gabby (6) – Pray and ask Heavenly Father.

Evie (9) – By praying.

Eva (5) – By forgive our brothers, our sister and ask for forgiveness if we did something naughty.

Ethan (7) – When we forgive when we do something bad.

Emmett (3) – Candy time, conference.

Elisabeth (9) – We repent by praying and asking to be forgiven.

Dezi (12) – Partake of the sacrament, pray and repent.

Chase (10) – We ask Jesus Christ and the Lord for forgiveness and we say it in a prayer. We say, “I repent for all of these sins.”

Bratcher (5) – By being nice.

Beau (8) – You pray and forgive your sins. I don’t know how to say this.

Bailey (10) – We say a prayer and then we can ask him for forgiveness. And we can also go to the person we were mean to or something and we can help them and we can say sorry.

Ava (8) – We say sorry and we don’t do it again.

Asher (7) – Pray, read scriptures.

Annie (9) – By praying and by taking the sacrament.

Anela (5) – We repent for Jesus cause Jesus is the one about God’s child.

Ana Julia (10) – We repent whenever we do something wrong in our lives. We can repent in a prayer asking Heavenly Father to forgive us for our wrong doing.

Amelia (10) – We ask in faith for the remission of our sins, for our sins to be lifted from us and take the sacrament.

Alise (12) – We pray sincerely for forgiveness of our sins. We promise to change. We make right what we can.

Akilah (8) – By praying.

Addy (7) – by saying sorry to Heavenly Father in prayer, and saying sorry to the person we may have hurt.

Adam (4)- Do things nice and right after we did wrong. For Jesus.

Anonymous – Listening to what Heavenly Father and Jesus says.

I loved these responses! Thank you so much to the children (and their typists) who participated! Tomorrow we’ll see how the children respond when asked about the resurrection of Jesus Christ.