He Just Tries SO HARD!

JD after his first day in Primary.

Praise to the man who communed with Jehovah

Jesus anointed that Prophet and Seer

Blessed to open this last dispensation

Kings shall extol him, and nations revere

This is the song we are learning in primary this month. "Praise to the Man". As you can see there are tons of really hard words in it. JD always sings during singing time, he may be one or two words behind but you can still hear him singing as loud as he can. Last week each class had a line to learn then we would pass the line to the next class and learn the next line. The class that sang the best got to go up and pick a question to answer. JD wanted to go up really bad and I told him he needed to sing really good. So time after time another class sang better than ours and we didn't get to go up. Finally it was the last time and we were going to all sing the whole song together. JD got all ready and started out good, still one or two words behind, but good. He got to he third or forth hard word and really started to fall behind. I look over at him and saw how hard he was trying and I wanted to scream and tell them to slow down so he could catch up. It really fell apart then. I saw JD's eyes well up with tears, so I tried to laugh because I did not want to start crying myself. Then he came over to me and crawled up into my lap and said "I am trying so hard!" and commenced to cry in my arms. And I myself started crying hysterically because I was still trying to laugh and not cry but crying non the less. Then Kyle came up because he needed to know what happened to his brother and if he was ok. So anyway Jana, the music leader, said our class could go up now. The rest of the kids were so preoccupied with JD they didn't even hear her. But JD did he hoped down and went right up to pick his question.

I just can't stand when one of my boys tries so hard and are so disappointed that their feelings are so hurt. I think I am getting a little emotional in my old age.