Gospel Principles

Jared's friend, Tony, told Colby a month or so ago that if he read the Gospel Principles Manual by March 8th, he would buy him a Webkinz. The Gospel Principles manual is the adult Sunday School manual for new members of our church. Colby came home that first day and read maybe 8 chapters, so I called Tony to make sure he was being serious. He didn't really expect a 6 year old to read a 300+ page book about doctrine, but he was being serious. Well, Colby finished it in time and he got his Webkinz (a lizard) tonight. He is so excited - so thank you Tony!

Here are a couple of funny stories about what he learned...

- "Oh, there really was a war in heaven! My (primary teacher) told me there wasn't one."

- Colby gets to the chapter on chastity which says to make sure children are old enough to understand sexual relations before discussing the material in the chapter. Colby showed me the first line... to which I told him he could skip that chapter. No questions asked... he was so excited he got to skip a chapter. Whew! I still have another year or so before I have to explain that one!

- Colby gets to the chapter on family responsibilities. Everyone is asleep at our house except for Colby & me and we are both reading. Colby stops me to read aloud the responsibilities of a parent. He tells me that the best way for parents to teach children is by example and that we need to be firm, but kind. He told me I was doing pretty good on the firm part... but that I needed to work on the kind part. Thanks pal... I've been working on that. :) He also saw that children have a responsibility to contribute to the happiness of a home. He pointed at that sentence and just smiled really cute at me.

- The missionaries came over to eat dinner with us and they always leave us with a short message. They asked Colby if he knew what the steps to repentance were. Colby whipped out his book and turned right to the page that talked about it... it actually surprised me and was really funny.