The Book of Mormon

This year Connor has moved up from Nursery to the Sunbeam class which has been a little bit of an adjustment. The first couple of weeks he really missed nursery but he has really come around. He really loves his class and his teachers.

The theme for primary this year is “The scriptures are the word of God.” and with that our primary presidency has challenged every primary child to read The Book of Mormon by the end of the year. A great Challenge… but for Connor I didn’t really take it to seriously. I started to be more diligent about reading to him from the “children’s version” of the scriptures every night… but I didn’t really feel like I was getting anywhere. Until…

About 3 weeks ago Connor came out of his class Super Excited, because he was given his First Book of Mormon. Just for him. His amazing teachers had taken pictures of each of their children and put it on a lamented card in their book. He was such a happy little boy. Once again.. something I thought was a really great idea… but I had my doubts about reading to him from it every night. I thought he would get bored… etc.

I have to say that I was wrong. Every night since that Sunday Connor has requested and remembered to read his Book of Mormon. I love it… Chloe, Connor and I read our silly bedtime books, then I put Chloe down and it’s Connor and Mommy time. We snuggle in bed and read a chapter every night from his Book of Mormon. He listens so intensely.  Sometimes he’ll stop me and say… What you say Mommy? In the first couple of Chapters when we were talking about getting the plates from Laban. Connor was really into it, it was cute. He stopped me and told me, “Mommy I get the Book from Laban, I kill Laban.” Even before we talked about Nephi killing Laban. It really shocked me because Connor never says that. Even playing around he never says he’s going to kill anything. It was interesting. This has been such an amazing experience for me. I have loved every minute reading to my boy. I love our time together sharing something so spiritual. I know he can feel the spirit. I am grateful for this Challenge. I am sure we won’t finish it by the end of the year but just the challenge of reading it every night is something I really hope we can stick to. I am so proud of my “big boy.”