While the annual general conference of our church was held the first weekend in
April, it takes a little while to get things over here. Although we could watch it over the Internet, not everyone has Internet at home, so for the next few weeks, they are showing it at church, one session at a time.
Last week we told the kids we were going to church to listen to general conference. After the branch president began the meeting as usual, and after having the sacrament, the elders put on a dvd of conference with Russian audio. The kids then went to play in the nursery room.
Later in the week I was talking to Liam, and i asked him if he had a favorite missionary. He said his favorite was General Conference. I asked him to clarify...he said, the general, the one with brown skin. :-) :-) We have an Elder Johnson here who has olive skin who had been standing at the front of the room putting on the dvd of conference...so of course when we said, ok kids, it's time to listen to general conference, Liam naturally assumed the person up there was...General Conference!
I forget sometimes that a four year old has only been alive for four short years. Kids really do such an amazing job of understanding the world around them. So fun to have a peek inside Liam's little mind to see those wheels spinning furiously to make sense of the world!
One of the things that is different about church here as opposed to in the US is that because the branch is small, the missionaries generally have a much more active role in teaching sunday school lessons, passing the sacrament, playing the piano, etc., rather than just teaching investigators. So my boys have seen the missionaries more in the past month here than they have in their entire lives at home. Which has entered into their consciousness and their play.
This morning I heard the following:
"Liam, pretend you're 19 years old. You have to go on your mission. I'll see you when you're 21." ...pause..."don't forget your companion!"
Love my little future missionaries!
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and sweet little missionaries they will be. Did you hear that we are getting a temple in Fort Collins?
ReplyDeleteLiam is such a stitch with his associations. For example, one day we were driving home and I was trying to keep Liam awake with questions. "Liam, what city do we live in?" [pregnant pause, one could hear the brain grasping for info at that one] "I know, we live in China City!" That's the Chinese buffet we all love to visit and the only place name he remembered that went with City! You gotta love the sweet innocence of our little ones! Oh, how I miss the daily interactions with grandchildren!
ReplyDeleteI just love those boys! And how fun for them to get a chance to interact with the elders. Yeah for missionaries!
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