The Joys of Teaching Seminary

I have somehow been tagged as a substitute teacher for the early morning seminary class for the juniors and seniors in my church. Seriously, I forgot how absolutely lackluster and probably bordering on boring high schoolers are at 6am. Not to say that at 33 I am any better at 6 am than they are. It's good to have a class that I can get at least a handful of them to participate. Really, I'm just glad that I'm only a substitute and not their full-time teacher. I don't know how teachers do it 5 days a week at 6am. Next time I substitute, I'll have to ask for insight on what is really supposed to go on in a Seminary class. Honestly, it was a long time ago for me. How am I supposed to remember how it is all supposed to go down? So, when I teach, we talk, we eat, we read scriptures, we discuss, we share insights, and then we are done.

I like to bring them food when I teach to keep them busy and happy. I'd have to come up with some other game strategy besides bringing them the breakfast of champions (fresh chocolate chip cookies & milk) every time I teach. So, usually when I substitute and take cookies, I get up early to bake them fresh. I must have been inspired last night to bake them then because this morning I ended up sleeping nearly 75 minutes through my alarm which goes off once every minute until I turn it off. Which means that either I was really tired or I didn't sleep very well, and it was probably a combination of the two. That left me approximately 15-20 min to shower, get ready, and out the door. Miracles (which coincidentally was the topic of my lesson today) do come true because I not only made it on time but a few min early AND I didn't look like I had just rolled out of bed. So, I'll point to that as my miracle of the day. The real miracle might be if I can make it through road show practice tonight with 40+ kids. I'll maybe post more some other time about the joys of directing a road show (kind of like mini plays with a bunch of kids).