I'm trying

My husband and I teach the CTR 7 class in primary. Which means the kids are turning 8 sometime this year. I feel pretty special to be teaching them during this important year. Every time I teach I ask myself how I can get the things I am teaching to stick. We are in sr primary so we have our classroom lesson before we go into big primary for singing and sharing time. Today our lesson started out a little rough. I asked them to be quite so many times before we had even said an opening prayer. There was a moment where I looked at Dugan and thought to myself I might as well just skip the lesson and let them play games because they won't settle down. As I looked at the few who were being reverent I told myself that wouldn't be fare to the ones who were listening. I started my lesson and they settled down a little. I was glad when it was time for big primary time. I always feel the spirit when singing primary songs. In sr primary the kids in the other classes were a little antsy too. I was tired of asking my kids to be reverent and felt a little defeated for the day. That is until the closing sing. I was sitting next to one of my extra antsy children. As I began to sing along with the primary children the words to the song Im trying to be like Jesus. My sweet little student who hadn't been singing at all, stared singing with a strong sweet voice. "I'm trying to love as he did in all that I do and say." I could hardly continue to sing. By the end of the song the tears had broken through and were streaming down my face. It was such a wonderful gift from my Heavenly Father. To feel the spirit of this sweet child. I am grateful to the chorister for choosing that song.

I am in trusted with these sweet children for two hours a week and they truly are the best hours of my week. God never said it would be easy, he only said it would be worth it. I'm the luckiest girl in the world.