Primary Teachers

So this summer Joe and I have been called as primary teachers and we teach the 9-11 yr olds. it is quite an adventure and we do our best to keep them entertained and interested in what we are teaching. We only have about 5 local kids but because west yellowstone is such a tourist town our numbers fluctuate alot and we also have some kids that are here for the summer, On july 5th we had 31 kids! Sometimes it's hard to know if the kids are enjoying class or if we are getting through to them at all but one thing i know i learned from my mother is to be an animated teacher and i never even realized it until one week we got a less active girl and her sister to come back for the second week in a row- the sister wasn't even supposed to be in our class but her sister had told her that we were the cool and funny teachers =) that was fun to hear. Last week we also had a mother of one of our students tell us that our lessons were really spiritual which is just so fun to hear. i love to know that these children are able to recognize the spirit and truth that are present when we discuss this gospel and it's been fun to see them grow more and more interested and have more of a desire to know for themselves as the summer has gone on. when we started the summer one of our students asked us if we were christian and now i have seen there testimonies and interest grow and they have such different questions now. It was so fun on SUnday during sharing time when our students raised their hands and knew the answers because they were things that we had taken the time to discuss and answer questions about. i could remember teaching the lesson that had to do with what we were discussing in sharing time and that it was stuff that the kids didn't really know but then to see them on sunday offering such perfect answers was so much fun Joe and I were totally doing the proud and happy primary teacher dance in the back of the room =)
I'm so thankful that we have been given this calling and entrusted with such a great responsibility, it has been wonderful =)