Seminary Wrap Up

Well, I finished teaching my first full year of seminary. It turned out to be a wonderful experience. This year I taught Doctrine & Covenants and Church History. I learned so much, and my love of the D&C, Joseph Smith, and early church history has really grown immensely.

This is one of the bulletin boards I did. It is the Kirtland Temple and I mostly used all the different shaped punches I have to make it. I put it up the day we had our "Kirtland Temple Dedication" where I set the room up like the Kirtland temple, and we pretended to be at the dedication - reading the dedicatory prayer, doing a hallelujah shout, and singing "The Spirit of God."

I had a great class, though it was very large for an early morning seminary class. I had 23 Freshmen, 19 of them were boys! We had a great time together.

On the last day the stake provided a breakfast for all the students.

That was not enough partying for my class, so I had them all over that afternoon for another pizza party ...

a build-your-own-pizza party. I made the dough and they did the rest.

While the pizza baked the kids made their way outside and got a hold of the battlemax guns. A war ensued and those pizzas could not get out of the oven too soon!

That weekend was the scripture chase. My kids were nervous, but they did a great job considering they were freshmen and had never been in a scripture chase before.

They all did pretty well. All the work, memorizing, and practice we had done really paid off.

Alex insisted he was going to do terrible, but he ended up doing pretty darn good. That boy. (I cannot explain why none of these pictures are of him. Sorry Al.)

One of my students, Nick, made it onto the stage in the final speed round finding scriptures in 2 2 seconds! He came in 3rd place. Impressive.

Two weeks later we had the seminary graduation. It was a nice event, but I was in charge of the dessert table, so it was a bit stressful for me. I decorated the table with pioneer paraphernalia - like quilts, beehives, and reproduction artifacts - keeping it at a safe distance from the chocolate fountains that were a big hit.

Alex earned the 100% attendance award and the seminary letter. The seminary letter requires you to memorize all 25 scripture mastery scriptures, the latter-day prophets, the current apostles & first presidency, and read scriptures daily. He really struggles with memorization, but he did it! I am so proud of him and so glad that he was in my class this year.