He IS Listening

Yesterday we had a special church meeting. We had the president to the seventy come to speak to us, so it was a 2 hour meeting just like stake conference. We felt as if we were playing musical chairs, everyone want the same pencil at once, annoy your brother if at all possible, get right in Colby's face until you get a reaction from him, and any other game they could think up that was loud and disruptive to everyone around us. As we knelt down for prayers last night, I asked the boys if they could tell me anything that was talked about in the meeting today. To my great surprise they started rattling off things. Caden could tell me 2 of the 3 three things talked about from a talk (the 3 things that will keep us safe/guarded from Satans grasp) and Carson retold in detail a story told by the Stake Relief Society Pres. about getting stuck in a cabin and having to live for 4 days and walking to safety where they were picked up by their home teachers. It brought instant tears to my eyes! When we think that our kids aren't listening to a word we or anyone else is saying, we are wrong. They are little sponges, taking in EVERYTHING we put them around. I am so proud of them, and love to see their little testimonies growing everyday. I pray every night that I can teach them what they need to know before they hit that magical age of 8. Although I know its impossible to do, I still work my very hardest at it everyday of our lives, and hope that I have taught them enough.