I'm subbing primary today. The primary presidency has the Easter lesson scheduled. I don't want to teach a lesson on Easter during Christmas. So, I called and asked if I could teach lesson 13: the gift of the Holy Ghost. This would allow the other teachers to teach the Christmas lesson next week as the primary presidency has scheduled.
As I was preparing, I had a flash back to teaching sunbeams when I was 18. I was teaching about the Holy Ghost then too. In my brilliance, I decided to draw pictures of ghosts to explain the Holy Ghost. By the time the lesson was done, the kids were so freaked out. I remember one of them saying, "I don't want a Holy Ghost!" Now that I have children all I can think is, "Wow, that was a dumb idea" and then laugh. HA!
In other news, Ryan and I are empty-nesters. We sent our kids to Panguitch with his parents so we could take the GRE tomorrow morning. This will be my 3rd time; Ryan's first. I slept 11 hours last night! Holy sleep deprevation! It's been revitalizing to have quiet time. I'm sure I'll be amply ready to be back in mom-mode when we get them on Christmas Eve.
I remember when I taught the sunbeams when I was 18, as a sub. I read a story about a dog named Happy. I said something in this manner. "Happy was Happy because he was happy." (the dog's feelings was what the lesson was about) Okay so after I said this I laughed. And I laughed out loud and hard. I mean I sounded ridicules! The kiddies just stared at me like, "Shesh she's weird."
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It is hard to believe where those sunbeams are right now in their lives. Times goes so very quickly.
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