Alma Read-A-Thon

We had our read-a-thon today, or our Alma-a-thon.  We gathered about 9 in the morning for breakfast.  Then we had several speakers talk to the kids about different sections of Alma.  We had a great turn out and it is nice to have this over and done with.  I thought Al Clark was pretty funny.  He talked about being resurrected to your perfect form.  He had one of the kids come up and put on this muscle man costume.  So funny! Later he wrote sins all over the costume and talked about standing at the judgement seat in your perfect form with all these sins.  I don't know how to explain it well, but I enjoyed it.

My chart.  I finished Mosiah this morning.  Talk about cutting it close!

Sister Covington talked about Alma and Amulek being in prison. Stockton got tied up.  He kept getting out of his bonds too quickly though.

Sister Covington, Stockton and Josh

It was a long day, but the kids did great.  We even had Elder Evans come and teach us.  He is a General Authority and is over the missionary department right now.  He was very involved in making that decision. It was pretty cool to hear from him.  There were three seventeen year old boys that he was talking to.  They said they were pretty freaked out.  He told them to pray and find out what the Lord would want them to do. He told the kids that this was not a policy change.  The Lord is hastening his work.  They are planning on creating several missions, but they do not want to create any that they will need to close after the initial surge of missionaries is over.  They do feel that the number of missionaries will be more like a tsunami than a tidal wave.

After the read-a-thon we took the kids to see Wreck-It Ralph.  They loved it!  We splurged and let them sit in the D-Box seats.  What a great way to spend a day!