Primary

This morning, as I was preparing my lesson for RS today (about 20 pages of introduction for the new Joseph Smith manual), I got a phone call from the primary secretary reminding me that John was supposed to give a talk in primary today. Um, next time, do me a favor and remind me a little bit earlier, ok? One hour before church is not the best of a reminder…I’m just sayin. Anyway, I took a break from my OWN lesson planning to throw together a talk suitable for John, and I must say it was a cute one.

He read this poem (meaning that I whispered into his ear and then he said it), and held up these pictures that I took from a Greg Olsen calendar.

As the shepherd knows his lambs

God above knows who I am.

All I do or think or say,

With love He guides me every day!

Easy for him, easy for me, but with enough punch to make a good little primary talk for a four year old. He did great, and wasn’t all grumpy and shy like I thought he might be. When he was done and he was going to go and sit down, a couple of little kids in his class started clapping for him. Now I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had applause after I give a talk or a lesson, so he must have done pretty dang good!

And speaking of primary, is there a tactful way to tell someone who calls and asks you to sub for their primary class that ‘No, I’m not going to be out of town or teaching a lesson somewhere else, but I’d really just rather not?’ I didn’t think so.