Pray and Amen

Josiah and I have been teaching Kai to pray for last a few months. We would fold arms, pause....and say "Amen". When we say Amen, we would unfold arms like "Banzai!" We thought that way he would get it easier when we say "Amen", it is the end of the prayer. We have tried and tried... he was just not interested at all!

We have this primary songs on DVD, and it has pictures come up with songs. Yesterday he really wanted to watch the DVD and asked me to play! So I put it on! He loves any music that we weren't surprised that is his favorite DVD to watch! Then all the sudden, he saw this little boy on the TV praying and HE FOLDED HIS ARMS!!!!!!!!

Josiah and I were there to watch him and thought "Is he doing "pray... and Amen" ???" He would do again and again.... Yep, he is doing it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We were so happy to see him do that all by himself! One of the bishopric in our old ward says "when you raise your children, you will have times that you feel like what you are doing is just hopeless...or not making any progress. But, just be consistence and one day you will see what you have done means something to them and to you.... It can take time, so be patient and continue what you are doing."
That is so true!

I put him to bed last night and asked him to pray... and he folded his arms as I pray with him. It was such a precious moment! It almost made me cry. Josiah and I decided that we needed to be better at praying with Kai every night. It was a good reminder! It was such a sweet moment that I had to write it down ;0)