Cole's Testimony

Written by Shayne:

In church, the boys can play on the I-pad or Hunter's kindle, only if they are church related games. In our pathetic attempt to get the boys to begin to pay attention in church, the big boys were playing "Testimony Bingo" during a fast and testimony meeting.  (This is a meeting where the members can stand and share their testimonies with the congregation).  The bingo game had key words, such as Savior, love, families, prophet, etc.  When they hear one of these words spoken they can mark off that word from the space on the game.  I told them if they got all the words/spaces marked off that I would give them some kind of reward.  Well, there were several words that just weren't being mentioned, and the meeting was nearing its end so Cole finally says, "Forget this, I'll just do it myself" and takes the Ipad and walks up to the podium.  Cole has never shared his testimony in front of the congregation before (shocker, I know).  Yes, we (his parents) were sitting back there and wondering what this little boy would say or do in the next 2 minutes.  He got up to the podium and proceeded to share his testimony - and he used every word he needed to complete the Bingo game one sentence at a time.  Afterwards so many people complimented us on what a great testimony it was.  If they only knew.

Back to Lea:
Actually, I was really impressed and grateful that it was a wonderful testimony!!  I really was worried that he'd stand there and just say the all the words at once and then sit down!  It was a funny way to get him up there - but it was definitely his own initiative! Shayne claims this is proof that video games are good for our kids...  hmmmm.  I'm grateful it was encouragement to do such a great thing.