A Big Boy Testimony

I shared my testimony in church today. Andy and Jack followed. I had to go back and help Andy. I don't think anyone could possibly have seen him, maybe just the crown of his head, maybe. Jack followed and I was hoping our FHE lessons on testimonies would be remembered. There was not a beautiful, flowing testimony of the divinity of the Savior and the restoration of the Gospel. No, Jack stood there for a moment, scratched his head in thought and then shared his testimony. There was a beauty about it for sure. This 7 year old boy stands before a chapel filled with people and speaks from his heart with absolutely no fear. He is completely comfortable. I don't recall every word he shared today but will do my best to share some of it.

I'm going to tell you more about trains. Trains were invented to haul freight. There is some freight that cannot travel by planes, that is why trains were invented. There is freight that can't be moved by planes or boats or cars or trucks. I don't know. I'm going to tell you about the trains that pull the freight, they called them the giants. One of the last of the giants was called the big boy. It could pull a five and a half mile train on level track. Then there was the war and the big boy was used to move the army and supplies. When a train starts up it makes noise that is: hah hah, hah hah. There was one type of train that was hard to maintain. Oh, I want to tell you about the roundhouse. The roundhouse is like a station with doors in the back where they put the engines. They are really neat. There is something wrong with Mater-national...

As soon as he switched gears to the Mater-national video game I jumped up and let Jack know that it was time to close. He began to step down and I asked if he wanted to say amen... he stepped back up.

Amen.

We just sat together and reviewed this.  He feels it is pretty accurate and made some edits to what I had written.  He really liked this one. I let him know that he did a great job, Andy also.  We talked about remembering the Savior in our testimonies and I said we need to figure out how to relate his trains to the gospel.  He was excited about that.  I also thought of a talk that could work for that.  We'll see how it goes.