I learned in church today

[CJF]

I learned that my 8 year old's primary teacher just returned from a vacation to Russia and brought back a small gift for each of the kids in the class. The gift was a souvenir shot glass.

That. Is. Awesome.

[Copelius]

I learned that my 8 year old's primary teacher just returned from a vacation to Russia and brought back a small gift for each of the kids in the class. The gift was a souvenir shot glass.

If I ever teach primary I know what to give the kids for a gift.

[Donuthole]

We've only been in our ward for about a month, and so far it has seemed really normal.

Today, however, a sister gave a talk on the power of hymns. She started by singing, a capella, all three verses to 'I am a Child of God'. The talk also included a game of name that tune, where she would hum the melody to a song and ask the congregation to raise our hands as soon as we recognized the tune. That would have been fun under any circumstances, but the fact that she was a poor singer and wandered between keys and on/off pitch made it especially challenging.

At one point she hummed the tune to that song about the names of the 50 states-- "Alabama, Alaska, Arizona"--and when nobody recognized it (or admitted to it anyway) she said "come on nobody knows the song about the prophets?!" She then began to sing the lyrics to "Latter Day prophets" to the tune of the 50 states song. She got about 8 words in before realizing her mistake.

All in all, she probably sang or hummed verses of at least 20 songs. She then talked for like 3 minutes but I can't remember what she spoke about because I was still laughing about name that tune.

[clackamascoug]

My buddy walks out just before the Sacrament, and I get a text at 20 till asking if I'd teach Gospel Doctrine for him. I went to the clerks office, printed out the lesson, marked some more interesting segments of lesson 32 "My Redeemer Liveth." I told the class the situation and asked for their understanding and help, and the lesson went off as good as normal. It felt good to know that my buddy could lean on me, that I could get the job done, and that I'm a ready arrow if ever needed.

Flu like symptoms are their own boss.

[Pelado]

My buddy walks out just before the Sacrament, and I get a text at 20 till asking if I'd teach Gospel Doctrine for him. I went to the clerks office, printed out the lesson, marked some more interesting segments of lesson 32 "My Redeemer Liveth." I told the class the situation and asked for their understanding and help, and the lesson went off as good as normal. It felt good to know that my buddy could lean on me, that I could get the job done, and that I'm a ready arrow if ever needed.

Flu like symptoms are their own boss.

Some do tend to develop flu - like symptoms after realizing they haven't prepared for a lesson that starts in less than an hour.

[OceanBlue]

That took guts. Shame nobody requested some Allman Brothers or something.




Today, however, a sister gave a talk on the power of hymns. She started by singing, a capella, all three verses to 'I am a Child of God'. The talk also included a game of name that tune, where she would hum the melody to a song and ask the congregation to raise our hands as soon as we recognized the tune. That would have been fun under any circumstances, but the fact that she was a poor singer and wandered between keys and on/off pitch made it especially challenging.

At one point she hummed the tune to that song about the names of the 50 states-- "Alabama, Alaska, Arizona"--and when nobody recognized it (or admitted to it anyway) she said "come on nobody knows the song about the prophets?!" She then began to sing the lyrics to "Latter Day prophets" to the tune of the 50 states song. She got about 8 words in before realizing her mistake.

All in all, she probably sang or hummed verses of at least 20 songs. She then talked for like 3 minutes but I can't remember what she spoke about because I was still laughing about name that tune. [/color][/QUOTE]

[TripletDaddy]

I told the class the situation and asked for their understanding and help, and the lesson went off as good as normal.

I don't doubt this.

[RC Vikings]

My buddy walks out just before the Sacrament, and I get a text at 20 till asking if I'd teach Gospel Doctrine for him. I went to the clerks office, printed out the lesson, marked some more interesting segments of lesson 32 "My Redeemer Liveth." I told the class the situation and asked for their understanding and help, and the lesson went off as good as normal. It felt good to know that my buddy could lean on me, that I could get the job done, and that I'm a ready arrow if ever needed.

Flu like symptoms are their own boss.

Were you able to fill the whole 40 minutes or did your resort to 10 minutes of hangman at the end?

[CardiacCoug]

My buddy walks out just before the Sacrament, and I get a text at 20 till asking if I'd teach Gospel Doctrine for him. I went to the clerks office, printed out the lesson, marked some more interesting segments of lesson 32 "My Redeemer Liveth." I told the class the situation and asked for their understanding and help, and the lesson went off as good as normal. It felt good to know that my buddy could lean on me, that I could get the job done, and that I'm a ready arrow if ever needed.

For years we had GD teachers who were clearly just reading the lesson for the first time in front of the class as they taught.

Pretty sure they always thought it was a great lesson, too.

Thank goodness the last couple of years have been better in our ward -- we have some smart teachers who bring in a lot of outside/new information.

So you taught about the Book of Job, huh? Yeah pretty much just talk about how Job had a testimony of Jesus, his Redeemer, and you've nailed the Mormon version of that lesson.

[Moliere]

I learned that if you are giving a talk on agency it's probably best to not start your talk by saying that you can't say "no" to the counselor who asked you to speak.

[MarkGrace]

So the parents of some friends told me their church doesn't meet in the summer. I feel like this a genius idea and ever since hearing about it I've been annoyed that we still hold church in the summer.

[CardiacCoug]

I learned that if you are giving a talk on agency it's probably best to not start your talk by saying that you can't say "no" to the counselor who asked you to speak.

I swear this has become the standard approach for our 5-minute youth speakers lately:

1. Four minutes recapping in excruciating detail the circumstances of being texted, called, or stopped in the hall and how the Bishopric member asked you to give the talk, exactly what the Bishopric member said and how you responded, how it made you really nervous and you tried to think of ways to get out of giving the talk -- how next time it would be better to stay in class or not answer your phone if somebody in the Bishopric calls because he might be asking you to speak.

2. One minute reading something out of a church magazine. In the Name of Jesus Christ Amen.

[CardiacCoug]

So the parents of some friends told me their church doesn't meet in the summer. I feel like this a genius idea and ever since hearing about it I've been annoyed that we still hold church in the summer.

Yup the SLC Unitarian Church just has a "Summer Forum" (topics like How Liberals Can Get Elected in Utah) instead of regular church during the summer. Genius.

[TripletDaddy]

the adult speaker spoke in Sac. topic was law of chastity. She said that we should all take care to not stray too close to the line, lest we succumb. She then provided a curious barometer to help stay away from the line: never do anything you wouldn't feel comfortable doing in front of the Savior.

Not sure how that works. married people are allowed to do a lot of things that I would imagine would be awkward or uncomfortable in front of the Savior.

[creekster]

the adult speaker spoke in Sac. topic was law of chastity. She said that we should all take care to not stray too close to the line, lest we succumb. She then provided a curious barometer to help stay away from the line: never do anything you wouldn't feel comfortable doing in front of the Savior.

Not sure how that works. married people are allowed to do a lot of things that I would imagine would be awkward or uncomfortable in front of the Savior.

Sometimes I think you are just chumming for inappropriate punch lines.