BBQ Chips

We had the missionaries over for dinner last night. I love having those guys over! We had Elder Goodrich from our ward mission, and Elder Bowden on loan to us from the Martinsburg mission. After a filling meal of spaghetti with sausage, I thought it nice to play a game since we didn't have time last night during FHE. Turns out that it worked well with Elder Goodrich's lesson idea.

So the game was telephone and goes something like this: one person starts a message of one sentence around a circle, and it is passed in whispers around the circle to the person that started it. While the message is being passed, everyone else is making noise. When the last person receives the message, they say it aloud so that everyone can compare it to the message they heard and finally what the original message was.

Elder Goodrich gave his message to Dougie, Dougie to Tim, Tim to me, me to Audie, Audie to Chloie, Chloie to Elder Bowden, and Elder Bowden said the final message aloud...

"BBQ chips"

The original message was, "Elder Bowden's favorite game is dress up Barbie."

At least we got the BB (Barbie) right.

The point behind the exercise was that during the Apostasy, the Gospel was passed down through the generations and altered, mistaken, confused, and passed down again. With the Restoration and the institution of modern prophets, we receive the work directly through the Prophet from the Lord without distortion. I feel comforted knowing that we're receiving direction directly from the source that doesn't require interpretation. Sweet. Then again, I don't know how I would live without BBQ chips.

I'm constantly amazed at how much the kids have learned. They were able to intelligently answer questions about Joseph Smith, his famous prayer, the First Vision, and the Restoration. Even Dougie chimed in with relevant responses instead of some random blurb. Wow. I better hit the books hard to stay ahead of these guys!