our little memorizer

katelyn has always been a very good memorizer. she learns to sing songs by herself very quickly, she remembers lines from movies she has seen, and recently she started memorizing scriptures.

before we started having her memorize scriptures, we just thought it would be a fun thing to do. but as we progressed along, i became amazed with how much memorizing these scriptures made an impact on her and me. we picked our scriptures right out of the friend magazine which has a page dedicated to one scripture with a correlating picture every month. this made it easy enough to explain and help her remember the subject of the scripture she was memorizing. after we began, i noticed that she started paying attention in sacrament meeting better. i can still remember one sunday after she had memorized a scripture, she kept leaning into me saying, they said commandments, they said righteous and so on. i know for me, i thought having katelyn memorie a scripture meant we would have to set aside a specific time to do this, but that wasn't so. it was amazing how many little moments we were able to find together to memorize. while katelyn was in the tub, driving to the store, sitting on the couch together, at the dinner table, wherever. it was a great moment together to talk about the scriptures and have some good mommy-daughter time. i can honestly say that this has been such a neat experience and would highly recommend this to anyone that is interested.

on a side note: at first we started memorizing one scripture a month, but soon found that the sciptures were getting jumbled in her head, so we slowed it down a little. maybe your child wouldn't have a problem with this though.

two last things: i think i sound a little bossy in this video and wow, i can't believe how much her speech has changed since the summer!