Church News

Today Chris and I were subs for Sam's nursery class. There are about eight kids on the roll for the class, but we only had Sam and two other boys. Sam is in our Junior nursery class, so all the kids are really young and don't have good attention spans for a lesson, so we sang songs and played instruments, had snack and tried to keep them entertained with the toys, that are predominantly for girls. All the good toys seem to be in the Senior nursery class so Chris and I were going in between classes, a lot. Our only mishap was when Troy's mom left. He cried and cried, but he wouldn't be comforted by me. He wanted a man, so Weston's dad helped while Chris was getting snack from the other room. He had to leave too, so Troy started crying again. Chris took him from me, but he was afraid of Chris' wrist brace (Chris sprained his wrist hardcore yesterday at soccer) he was fine as long as he didn't see Chris' hand. He was still crying at the beginning of "big toys in the gym" play time, so Chris tried to take him back to our room, which upset Weston. It seems Weston also wanted a male figure around. It was nice to see how Sam plays in nursery, hopefully the other kids won't let him push them around too much.

I left Chris with the boys at the end to go into Primary and help Landon give a talk for closing exercises. It was his first one ever, but we weren't worried because we know he likes to talk into microphones. We held up a picture of Jesus and he repeated after me.

"We are all children of our Heavenly Father. Before I was born, I lived with Jesus and heavenly Father. I was still a spirit. This means that I did not have a body yet. Everyone on earth was once a spirit. We were all Heavenly Father's children. Because God is the father of my spirit, I can learn to be more like him here on earth."

Pretty good huh! Chris wrote it for him, but when I asked Chris if he wanted to help Landon, he said it was okay if I did it. Which was good since all the boys in nursery were daddy's boys, and had Chris left to help Landon, I would have had to deal with three crying little boys.

Now you may ask..."Didn't you need to be in the Library, since you are a church Librarian?" Well yes. I should have been in the Library between classes, but the other librarian said I could skip out on her today. Hope she doesn't mind me skipping out again in a few weeks. The Primary President is asking the parents of Landon's class to help out while their teacher is out with her newborn baby.

In other news: I've been a librarian for about four months now and finally today, the bishopric gave me some keys. I must thank Christopher for pestering not just the councilor in charge of the Library, but all three members of the Bishopric last week. I can finally do my job without waiting for other people to open the library for me. Woo hoo!