Sunday, October 5, 2008

"Neh." That's all I have to say.

The second last institute lesson was on Nehemiah (also dubbed “Neh” for simplicities sake), who is known for the rebuilding of the city wall of Jerusalem, which took his people just 52 days, and also rebuilding the spiritual life of this people. Also, as a class we also considered three famous people: Sally Robbins (aka Lay-Down Sally), Jane Savilla (aka the running walker), and Lindsay Jacob-Ella (aka why don’t I take this victory in style by showing off a little first). Other than each somehow botching it at the Olympics, we concluded that they were three people each with great potential for success, but who for one reason or another (but always a fault of their own) didn’t quite make it. We too have great potential as children of God, but we can decide to botch it up or to give it our all and be successful in returning to our Heavenly Father.

The activity after was a great game of Family Feud (I’ve always wanted to play that!), with questions surveyed on a LDS audience. Teams Neh and Miah both competed well, with team Miah winning in the end. Representing the great land of the eastern shore was the amazing Mari-Anna!

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