February 28

This morning Scott taught his Mission Preparation Class. I love watching him teach with such enthusiasm. He has 15/17 YSAs who seldom miss, in fact, Grace Taito, who is going to serve in the Temple Square Mission, scheduled her classes so that she can attend Mission Prep with Scott.  The minute class is over, she rushes back to FNU for class.  This morning he taught about prayer and the power of getting investigators to pray.  Every week he has the class practicing as if they were missionaries. The students want so much to be prepared to do the Lord's work.  This week after class was over he told the class that he had a treat for them (ice cream bars) but they had to earn the treat by memorizing two scriptures about praying that they would need on their missions.  One, of course was Moroni 10:3-5 which is not short.  I laughed (inside) watching these young adults work hard to memorize.  One girl stood up, took her scriptures and talked to the wall.  One walked up and down in the classroom mumbling.  Another wrote the scripture on the whiteboard and stood there until he knew it.  Thomas, a favorite, is physically challenged.  I would guess that he is cerebral palsied. One side of his body does not function well.  His arm is contracted and he walks on just his toes on that side.  He is a delightful kid.  I was worried that he would have trouble memorizing, but he did not.  Scott was so cute with them.  If they said the scripture and it was not word perfect, he would not give them the ice cream bar.  He sent them off again with a "got to know it perfectly for your mission."  All but the girl who waited till last to say the scriptures to Scott got it done perfectly.  Scott gave her the ice cream bar anyway.  I am guessing she will be back next week knowing the two scriptures perfectly.

Went to the temple with much trepidation.  Scott was supposed to speak with President Davis this past week about the complaints, but the discussion never happened.  We were welcomed, and treated wonderfully.  President Davis did say that he would let us know each Wednesday what the numbers looked like for the next day and if the number coming was high we would not be able to do baptisms. Sigh.