Lesson #3 I Can Pray to Heavenly Father

We had a pretty good lesson this last Sunday, and fun too, all girls again, my assistant there and sanity was back!
I have to tell you, I decorated the whole room for Valentines, I thought it would go good with "HF love us" theme, and it did, I decorated one of the boards with HF, Jesus and some pictures of kids, together with hearts all around the room, and they just seem very interested in the decorations.
So, when lesson time started, I sat them down in fron of that board, and ask them who they saw, they got it all right and made the connection with them and the hearts very well, I was really proud of them, I tell you, it never seize to amaze me how much they relate to pictures, I gotta always remember that.
Talking about pictures, I tried to do some songs without pictures, like "Soy un hijo de Dios" and it didn't work very well, so that was a good test on how much they relate to the HF and world pictures, they did work good with "A Happy Family" because I had the pictures for that one. Favorite on Sunday, definitely "Si en tu cara enojo hay" ("If there's a frawn in your face"? don't really know the name in English), they loved the face that turns happy with just turning it.
At the end of the class, each one of them using their handout from the nursery manual that they had colored, took turns praying and did very well with help.
A really nice reward for me was later in the day at home, I was babysitting my niece, I am giving her a snack, and she tells me "Tia we haven't said the prayer" and folds her arms and starts, I guess that's the whole reason why you put effort in your classes, even when you don't notice, they really are listening! Gotta love this calling!

Lesson #2: HF has a plan for me

So, I decided I was going to focus on one thing only for them to learn, if they learned that, I would be a happy camper. My main focus was on them learning they have a body that HF gave them when he sent them here to their parents on earth, and it is one just like His. Now, a lesson you have planned in your head sometimes doesn't work as planned when your assistant doesn't come, sometimes you don't know how much you depend on a person until that person is gone, granted, she's been gone before, but I've always had somebody else (usually my husband) to help me, not this time, my husband was busy and the missionaries couldn't come, so it was just me, BUSY, CHAOTIC, BUSY, to say the least, but still wonderful, I had a couple of things to do with them but instead I concentrated my efforts in tracing their hands and making a flower out of them, and I multi-task and taught the lesson while I was tracing their hands, I knew I wasn't going to have more time, so while tracing I was talking to them about the lesson and how our little fingers are just like HF's, they liked that, and they colored them too, so that bought me some time to get the snacks ready.
We did sing too, not very succesfully, I have to say, this week, they did good on "Soy un hijo de Dios" they all seem to know that song now, but when we or I started singing "A Happy Family" they seemed to have forgotten it, that caught me by surprise, they knew it pretty well a month ago, so off we go to learn it again :), of course they did the "Popcorn song" and "Itsy Bitsy Spider" well too, but that just seemed to be the end of their interest in singing, they were just too excited to get their flowers done, and again, it was just me, so the process wasn't going too fast, I kind of entertained them making them color the color page on the manual,
they did like that and gave me the chance to finish the flowers. 2 hours flew by, before I knew it the kids from the other ward were coming, none my kids were picked up, and I hadn't cleaned up yet, so yes, it was busy, of course chaotic, but still, wouldn't change my calling for anything in the world right now :).

P.S. I'll post some pictures of the project later, they loved their flowers and loved more that they could write with them. Note to self, bring camera every Sunday, they were excited to have their pictures taken.

I am a Child of God

Ok, something in trying to teach them "I am a Child of God", specially in Spanish to my mostly English speaking two years old, is talking about it before, it seems to work every time, what works best is something that goes like this. I bring up the print of Heavenly Father on top of the world and all the little faces (I printed them from the Super Little Singers CD ) and give each of the faces, and ask them, who is he? pointing at HF, and they answer, so I say and who are you?, and they say their names, but now they are getting the hint, so they also answer now, I am a child of God, and I go to each of them and tell them ".... you are a son/daugther of God" and they LOVE that, they go, Thank you, or yes! it is sooo cute! :) and then they pay more attention to the song and now after a couple of months of doing this, most of my regular nursery kids know the song! and I am just so happy :)