Tonight Deacon had the scripture. "Let me go get the dictionary," he announces, running off. "Dictionaries have great scriptures in them!"
He returns with a pocket-sized German-English dictionary and begins reading. "The Lamanites pooped fire out of their bums."
He turns the page. "Then they stuck their fingers in the fire, and their fingers were dead!!!"
He continues to read about various body parts getting burned by fire, until he announces, "Then their whole bodies fell in the fire, and they died. But they came back to life. There they are behind the couch! And they're shooting me!"
At which point screaming erupts as all the children run from the Lamanites.
Calm is restored, and McKay teaches us the story of the Tree of Life. I'm asking the children to explain the symbolism behind the fruit, the iron rod, etc., and they're doing remarkably well. I'm impressed. Then I ask, "What does the great and spacious building represent?"
Parker responds, in all seriousness, "Barack Obama."
The lesson went downhill from there. "What could be some of the filthiness of the world, that the river could be representing?"
Parker had an idea. "Like those bikini girls in Las Vegas with an American flag on their bikinis."
I'm wondering how Parker knows about Las Vegas bikini girls, as I answer, "Yes...that could be filthiness."
McKay interrupts, "Wait, I thought the dirty river was chocolate milk."
Trying to bring a little spirituality back into the lesson, I conclude with a question. "So, what do you learn from the story of the Tree of Life?"
Parker exclaims, "Never wear a bikini! Especially if you're a man!"
Yep. That's family home evening around here.
3 comments:
Better than ours...we where talking about the commandments and Bridger says--"I've never heard of commandments or Moses!"
For our family home evening, we ordered a movie from Net Flicks, so you've both done better than us.
wait, the dirty river isn't chocolate milk then?
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