Obviously he didn't ask for any ideas or help with his talk or act nervous (completely opposite of me who has an extreme fear of public speaking). I kept waiting for him to start working on it during the week. Nothing happened. Then Saturday night he spent about 5-10 minutes on the computer and announced his talk was done. I asked him what he was speaking on. "The Nativity". Perfect!
On Sunday morning about 15 minutes before he needed to leave to church to start getting the sacrament ready, I asked him if I could read his talk. It was a very different Nativity Story than I'd expected. It was an unbiased, historical, non-Christian view of Christ's birth and life. I asked him what references he had used to write his talk. Wikipedia. I started laughing and panicking a bit. I showed his talk to Gavin who had the perfect solution. He opened up his scriptures to Luke 2 and had Jack read this account of the nativity story. Jack had found his talk. He read Luke 2 and gave his personal testimony of his Savior and it was amazing!
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this made me chuckle! i completely understand those independent children as i have them. i have made them that way but sometimes it bites ya!
LOL! So glad you read it through first. :) Jacob gave his first talk last month: Prayer.
That is so funny! Good for him for trying... love that!
Love it. Piper (at 4) always asks if she can talk in Sacrament meeting. Why don't they realize how scary it is?!
V--I'm so glad I read thru it first, too. Almost didn't since I wanted it to be his thing. But it had things like "some people think his life was a myth, etc." I wonder what the reaction would've been if he had just given that talk. He now knows all about www.lds.org and to use that site as a reference and NOT wiki. Love that our boys are old enough to be deacons and youth speakers!
What a cute kid. Sounds like our Cody.
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