First Talk

Mikayla gave her first talk in primary last week.  She thought it was "the coolest thing" because she got a sticker telling her that she was to give a talk on the atonement in primary.  We've learned about the atonement in sharing time, then talked about it again in family home evening so that she could understand it better.  When it came time to write her talk she told us exactly what to say with only promptings such as "then what happened?"  I was totally impressed.  We went through her talk once together, practicing on the stool with her play microphone, and the second time around she had it pretty much memorized.  Her memory is amazing!

The day of her talk she wasn't nervous at all and said almost the whole thing by herself.  On the way home I told her she did a great job and she said, "I know!  I think we should have a candlelight celebration dinner because I did so good!"  And that's exactly what we did.

Here's her talk:

"When we come to Earth our bodies are clean and pure.  When we are older we sometimes do sins and it isn't pure any more.  If we make a mistake we should repent and ask Heavenly Father to forgive us.  We can repent because of the atonement (pronounced 'retonement' by Mikayla).  The atonement is when Jesus felt all the bad things we've done.  He prayed for us to be forgiven.  Mean people made Jesus die on the cross, but he was resurrected.  Because of Jesus Christ we can all live with Heavenly Father again."