Our First Primary Program
I don’t think my words will give the experience full effect, but they’re all I’ve got so here goes.
Perhaps we should have taken him to the church ahead of time so he could discover all the workings of the folding seat before the program started, but who knows if we could have ever satiated his interest in this particular type of seat. He sat in one of those chairs where the seat automatically closes when you stand up and he wiggled and played with the seat for most of the program. He was so distracted by the seat that I couldn’t make eye-contact with him to tell him not to play with it.
The best part of the program came when they started playing the intro to his favorite primary song "I love to see the temple" he looked and me and said in a surprisingly loud voice "Mom, it’s my favorite song!" then he proceeded to yell the words of the song as loud as he possibly could. I laughed so hard that I cried and everyone I looked at was laughing too. He yelled so loud, that you could hear him clearly above all the other children’s voices. For the rest of the songs I only heard him yell an occasional word because he only knew parts of the other songs. He yelled most of the first verse of "I am a child of God," but he didn’t yell that one as loud.