Jonah

Sela and Nina love to plan and present little lessons for family night. Sometimes Nina comes up with some real winners. Just ask Mom! Once she has a captive audience, you can just see the joy in her bright little eyes. She is not one for brevity and would go on for hours if we would just sit and obey. As the middle child, she loves all eyes on her for as long as she can get it. It thrills her to give assignments and ask questions and have us role play. And she often has us in stitches because she her lessons are a little bit of doctrine and a little bit of rock and roll. Often the girls try to mimic what the sharing time lesson was in primary. For some reason, Sela thought we needed a lesson on obedience this week so she chose to teach about Jonah. She told the story in her own words and had Nina and Rollin play instruments during the story when she said the word "storm" and "spit out." Getting them to stop playing wasn't as easy as she planned. She had us do a craft and make our own whales with a little Jonah man stuffed inside. Even Rollin took his role of newspaper ripper seriously(oh the joy of tearing, ripping, and breaking something!) and stuffed his whale(or helicopter as he calls it) quite full. Well done, Sela!