On Saturday we got an email from our Bishop letting us know that the area authorities were canceling church because of winter conditions. I have never had church cancelled and this was a bit unreal to me. Kefford still needed to go in for Bishopric meetings and while he was gone he sent me a text asking if I would have the kids each prepare a three minute talk. I thought that was a good idea for our Sabbath snow in and let the kids know to pick their own topics and write a talk. Avynlea and Rylee both decided to use this opportunity to pass of some goals in their Faith in God books and Ryker did the same in his Duty to God book.
After Kefford got home we gathered the kids together for a Sunday Family Home Evening.
After an opening prayer and song Kenedy was up first. She talked to us about using Faith to get through trials. Unlike the other kids she did not use the morning to prepare and ended up just winging it. I was really impressed with her talk because I would never have guessed she was speaking on the fly, it sounded prepared and she did awesome!
Ryker talked to us about Repentance and how important it is and what a blessing it is to have the ability to repent when we make mistakes.
Avynlea talked about how taking the Sacrament each week helps us renew the covenants we made when we were baptized.
Rylee also talked about Faith but she talked about how to grow our Faith.
The kids all did a really great job and I was really impressed with what they were able to come up with in just a couple of hours.
Avynlea was in charge of directing the music and she had a lot of fun with that. She especially made herself happy when she used her Kindle to play the hymns.
After lunch Ryker and Rylee put on their snow gear to head out into the backyard. They went out with the intention of having some fun in the snow but barely made it past the icy porch. Rylee had to hold onto the pillar to keep herself upright while Ryker biffed it a couple of times. They were funny to watch and at some point they made it to the snow and tried rolling the snow to make snowmen but quickly grew tired of that game and came inside.
