My year as a Seminary teacher ended today. This job is one reason among many that I have been absent from T&S for the past month or so. The time demands on an early morning Seminary teacher, when added to having a full-time job and trying to raise five children … well, let’s just say that this was not an easy year for me. Next week is Seminary Graduation, but I will be out of the country, so we had our own little graduation party today. One feature of today’s class was reading some of the funny comments that had been made during the year (dutifully recorded by my daughter). Below is a sampling …
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\n\u2022 When a young man and young woman were asked to role-play Adam and Eve in the Garden, the young man asked, “So, will we be in full costume?”<\/p>\n
\u2022 When discussing the story of Noah’s ark, I asked, \u201cWhat does a dove represent?\u201d One of the students responded, \u201cThe Holy Ghost,\u201d which prompted another to ask: \u201cSo\u2026is it bad if we shoot one?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 Another student comment re Noah’s ark: \u201cWhat if there was some kind of hard core swimmer who was just floating on his back for 40 days?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 And the same student on Noah again: \u201cSo the flood was, like, a massacre\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 On the Tower of Babel, a student observed: \u201cYou know, in today\u2019s day and age, with all the translation systems, language would never be a problem, so in theory we could build a tower up to heaven and God couldn\u2019t stop us!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 Again on the Tower, the same student: \u201cHey, if you want to do well in your Spanish class, go build a tower. And now look you’re speaking Spanish!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 Bro. Smith: \u201cHow do you gain knowledge?”
\n Student: \u201cYou take it from someone.\u201d
\n Bro. Smith: \u201cYou mean you steal it?\u201d
\n Student: \u201cyeah\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 A student summarizing the lesson of an unidentified OT story: \u201cBefore you date a girl, make sure she\u2019s not related to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 Bro. Smith: \u201cWhy do the priests make an atonement?\u201d
\n Student: \u201cMaybe they do something\u2026significant\u2026of some sort\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 A student on priestcrafts: \u201cWell what if he took the money to do good things? Like buy a new staff or something?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 Bro. Smith: \u201cWhy do the general authorities tell us to get out of debt?\u201d
\n Student: \u201cCuz we might shoot one of our creditors.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 Student contemplating the fate of those who are not lifted up at the Second Coming: \u201cYou know if you think about it, the earth is a sphere so we\u2019d be cooked rotissery style — plenty of time to get underground.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 Our Seminary classroom is next to the rear exit of the church building. Whenever someone one of the two doors, we hear them. That fact prompted this conversation:
\n Student A: \u201cHey what was with the door? I heard the airlock about a minute ago, but no one came in\u2026\u201d
\n Student B: \u201cMaybe it was the spirit\u2026\u201d
\n Student C: \u201cYeah, leaving.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 When the students learned that the Levites were not considered a tribe in the same way as the other tribes, a student remarked, \u201cThey\u2019re kind of like Puerto Rico\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 On Gladys Knight: \u201cDid she ever convert the Pips?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 Student in response to my observation that we probably shouldn’t be laughing at something in the OT: \u201cWe\u2019re not laughing AT God, we\u2019re laughing WITH him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reading this, I think I am actually going to miss teaching Seminary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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