Today we had a rousing game of something which could be described as mad dash to the chairs. The winner's scores were undoubtedly in the billions, but we learned a lot about Noah. I issued a challenge to everyone - which I think all accepted. The challenge is to try an experiment for the next week. Yesterday as we talked about how class was going, we talked about all of the pressures the students have with school, sports and music. On top of that, they are asked to read their scriptures for 10 minutes each day. The students said that it is such a chore just to try to squeeze those few minutes in for the scriptures. The challenge which was issued/experiment is that for the next 7 days, the students read their scriptures for 10 minutes BEFORE they do the other things - like FIRST. I believe that they will find their capacity to do these other things increased, and that things will fall into place. After a week, we will discuss the results and see if there is any difference.
Finally - since we are talking about Noah - we went outside and tried to figure out the distance/area and dimensions of the ark. We figured 4 times the length of the back church parking lot... pretty huge. Some of the students just didn't think that it was possible that it would have held everything, but after seeing an approximation, it puts it into perspective a little better.
Tomorrow we will continue with Noah - and then begin to move on. By the way - Noah's other name is Gabriel (as in the one who announced Christ's birth to Mary), and he is second to Adam in the priesthood order...pretty interesting.
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