Primary Talks

Since she became a Sunbeam, and even before that, Ever has been dying to give a talk in Primary. She finally got her chance.

Her first talk was about how she shows Christ she loves Him by keeping His commandments. We asked her questions and wrote down her answers to compose this talk:

"I show Jesus Christ love when I keep the commandments. When I keep the commandments, I make Jesus happy. Commandments are rules that teach us what to do and not do so we can be safe and happy. I try to follow Heavenly Father's commandments and no one else's. We're not supposed to tell lies to people, hit or push people, or break stuff on purpose. I help people I don't know like the good Samaritan did. Don't follow robbers. Call the policeman if robbers steal your stuff. I try to listen to my mommy and daddy and do what they ask me to do. I love Jesus so I try to follow Him."

I suggested to Jim that we may want to omit the stuff about robbers, but he wanted to stay true to her words. He also said that her statements were doctrinally sound - we do believe in being law-abiding citizens. And so we left it in for a bit of comic relief.

Here she is delivering it for the camera:

The annual Primary program was not too long after that. To prepare her part, I asked Ever, "How do you know Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love you?" She said, "I can only think of bad things." I asked, "Like what?" She answered, "Like how bad people killed Him on the cross." I asked her why Christ let bad people kill him on the cross, and she said, "Because He didn't want us to hurt." I think I then asked if He did anything with our sins, and she said something about how He took our sins. So here's the talk she gave in the Primary program (except she forgot in the video to say her introductory sentence, "My name is Ever"):

As you can see, she had it down pat. I didn't even have to practice much with her. Everyone was very impressed that she had it memorized. She also knew most of the songs they sang in the program better than her peers, although she did spend a lot of the singing time looking behind her on the stand at all the other kids.