Sunday, September 19, 2010

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."

4 comments:

  1. Haha...Suz right after posting this: "Alright I'm done. I hope everyone is happy now. Geez."

    :) Sorry...we're just fans that can't get enough

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  2. What are you doing online so quickly anyway?!?!

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  3. Great post! Thanks for humoring me!

    PS> You two do talk in person, right?

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  4. ok so it looks like to me like this new little family is missing at least one other 'somebody' or maybe lots of little someones....hmmm ;) i'm just sayin'!

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