Malia is a mighty 9th grader this year which means that she is now eligible for seminary. She had some problems with her schedule before school started, but as her counselor was tossing ideas at her, dropping seminary was definitely not an option for her. And I’m so glad. Because seminary was when the gospel kind of came alive for all our boys and honestly, I’m hoping that it will be good for Malia as well. I think she had a good dose of the “living gospel” experience at FSY this year, because FSY is basically like being in seminary all day every day for a whole week, but having the smaller, consistent doses if important. Especially because middle school is the cesspool of the world, only to be outclassed by the high school. Seriously, there is a lot of stuff that the kids really have to go blind to in order to survive the public school system. So, seminary. A valuable tool to strengthen our youth and help our kids survive in this crazy world.
In Malia’s seminary class today, the kids were put into small groups and each one of them had to teach the rest of their group about one part of the plan of salvation. Malia was assigned to enlighten the group on premortal life and because she is who she is, she drew pictures. And it was spot on. And it made me laugh because her sense of humor came through. So here is Malia’s interpretation of the council in heaven and our premortal life. Enjoy. I did!
