This is why I love family wards.

We love the Hickory ward we attend.  Ben was just called as Elder's Quorum 1st councilor, and I was just set apart as RS Secretary! Kind of cool to share these callings, but I feel in over my head as secretary  since I still don't know many people! Guess this is a blessing in disguise, so I can get to know them and serve people better. 

Anywho, today was our annual Primary Sacrament Meeting.  We showed up just at the beginning, and since it's a popular week for visitors it was already packed. But you have to get a good seat on Primary Sunday, right? So we marched up to the front and sat by some strangers... new friends... just a few rows from the front. It was Ben's first Primary Sunday in years, and we had  a great time (too good of a time) enjoying the ward children. 

In fact, we made a list of our favorite things. 

• The blonde kid who points his hands like guns with one eye closed at the audience
• The spiky-haired kid by Gabe jumping up and down waving (will someone just wave back?)
• Mis-reading the scripture to say..."Whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have neverlasting life"
• The sulky 11-ys-olds that don't want to be here
• Gabe, 7, sticks his tongue out and points his finger to the audience during his song solo (KISS fan?)
• The kid by the lightswitch who keeps turning it on and off (happens when there are over 60 kids...)
• The overambitious chorister who tried separating the songs into parts 
• In the middle of his solo verse of "Follow the Prophet" an older boy says into the mic, "Oh I just forgot."
• Trying not to sing aloud to your favorite Primary songs
• Little girl sits back in her chair, bored, and rests her script over her mouth
• "When Christ was in the Garden of Gotham..."
• Ben singing aloud with the Primary to their verse of the congregational hymn
• Little boy by the pulpit scrunches up his face and holds up balled fists to sing the song with rock-like passion
• By the end of the program half the kids aren't standing or singing along anymore. 

"Can we teach our kids to do funny stuff on the stand?" -Susannah

"Like what, give high-fives?" - Ben

"Yeah, run through the aisle and give high-fives like contestants on a gameshow!"

"I don't think we'll have to teach them that."