Valiant Gumballs

May I introduce you to our Valiant 9 & 10 year old class.
For the last 6 months, our class has been filling up a gum ball machine with different colors of gumballs every time they read their scriptures, share the gospel or serve someone. They finally filled up the machine with a rainbow of righteousness and we decided to have a gumball themed party to celebrate their achievement. Teaching this class has been such a joy. They make us laugh every week with their little quirks and mishaps. Here are just a few of our favorites:

Jessica misread a scripture one day and said, "...for such is the kindergarten of God."

As I was at the crucial moment of my lesson about Joseph Smith's First Vision, I asked the class if any of them knew what Joseph Smith saw when the light fell upon him. Josh blurted out right then, "dinosaurs!!!" We end up incorporating dinosaurs into a lot of our lessons lately.

Larissa got up to share a scripture during sharing time. She forgot what verse I had pointed to and ended up reading this one instead "and all of the liars shall be thrust down to hell." All of the primary leaders looked at me with a disapproving look. Nice one, Sister Willis. Nice.

More funny moments to come.