Teaching Moroni’s promise

July 19, 2008

My son is about to give his first talk in Sacrament meeting on Sunday.  It will be interesting to see how it goes.  Most of my kids have spoken in Primary before, but those are basically reading talks, they are given a set script and they just read the lines.

This time I wanted to sit down and get some input, get him to own the talk a bit.  At twelve speaking is an intimidating process but it is something that gives him a chance to grow and I am happy he had the experience.  Given that statement I also want him to understand what he is talking about so that he is just not doing a seminary answer talk, where he reads the latest story from the Ensign, New Era or Friend. Read the rest of this entry »