This was the first time in seven years that I was NOT involved in the primary program in any way. I was a primary teacher for four years and I wrote the program for the other three years. But this year, while I do technically have a primary calling working with the activity day girls, I was not involved in the arduous practicing and repetitive singing of the primary program prep. It was a treat! I loved listening to all the songs and spoken parts. I loved not knowing what was coming next! I felt the spirit! It was so fun simply to watch. For the first time in seven years I understood why everyone always says that the primary program is their favorite sacrament meeting of the year. It was awesome! Kids have such a pure spirit when they sing and talk about Jesus. They shine. We soaked up their glow. It was sweet!
This was Rose's first primary program, even though she is the absolute tallest Sunbeam ever. I think I said that about Jay when he was a Sunbeam, but Rose is a full inch taller at this age than Jay was. She's a whole head taller than the other two kids in her class. We could see her up front very well, singing her heart out nice n loud. The small Sunbeam class of three was supposed to say the first Article of Faith all together in the microphone. Rose had it all memorized perfectly. But when they got up to the podium, the teacher was whispering the words at them and only one of the three kids had his face by the microphone and Rose and the other girl seemed to think that they had to take turns in the microphone, so only the one boy said their part. I was kind of sad for Rose because she did such a good job memorizing her part and never got to say it in the microphone. But thankfully she didn't notice too much. I think she was saying it up there but not in the microphone--it was hard to tell. Anyways, Rose was confident and not a smidgen nervous. She knew at least 70% of all the songs, and sang them all too, even the ones that were supposed to be done in parts--haha. Everyone told us that Rose was "very expressive," probably referring to her dancing and wiggling that got progressively more energetic as the meeting went on.
Jay is a primary program veteran now, on his third one this year. His part was a fill in the blank: "I follow Jesus Christ by_____." At first he only said one word in the blank, but I encouraged him to at least think of one other thing to say because he is so good at speaking. Every time he said his part it changed a little. So during the program today he ended up saying "I can obey Jesus Christ by going to the temple and praying to Heavenly Father and Jesus." The video I took of him this morning was a slight variation of this. While Jay was sitting with his class up front, he made the funniest faces! Jeff and I were silently laughing our heads off. He wasn't trying to be silly, he was just letting his wiggles out with facial expressions--or at least that's what it looked like to us. A lot of them were grimaces or eyebrows up and lots of them looked like bored expressions. Ha! When Jay was standing in line with his class waiting for his turn at the microphone, he looked out and found me sitting in the middle of the chapel. He raised his hand about waist high and did a tiny little wave and a tiny little grin. I raised my hand to chest level and did a tiny little wave and smiled back at him. My boy.
I love that this is the pose they chose.
I couldn't resist the triple ponytail doo on Amber. She ripped it out in the car on the way to church, but at least I tried.
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