Last Sunday Ethan gave his very first primary talk. His subject was "The temple is the House of God" which was great because we had just been talking about temples a few days before that. I think he was a little nervous about the prospect of doing it at first but once we came up with a talk he was pretty excited. They assigned him the talk a week in advance, so I figured we had plenty of time. Well Wednesday rolled around and I realized we hadn't got anything ready yet. Oops. So I found this little book called Tiny Talks and they have a whole bunch of different subjects but the one I got was all about temples. We chose one and made some adjustments, then I typed it out and added some pictures.
He was able to memorize the entire talk by Saturday morning with only practicing it a couple times a day. That kid has an amazing memory! (He had to do the 7th Article of Faith last month and memorized that whole thing in a couple days.)
Of course I couldn't film him in church so I made him practice right before we left. He, of course, wanted to have no part in me filming him which means his back is to me so you'll have to turn it up a little to hear him. And Olivia is playing with her toys in the background (so loudly that at one point I had to stop him for a second), then she starts yelling,"Church! Church!" but you'll get the idea.
I was going to go watch him give it in primary but I missed all but the very end. Jake was there and he said he did really good and only missed one word so the primary president helped him. The primary presidency was so impressed that they asked me to save his talk so that he could give it during the the primary program in October. I mentioned it to him and he said no way, but I think if/when the primary president asks him he will probably say yes to her. I guess we'll see!
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