Jacob Sings - Brigham Pontificates

The last Sunday before we left Valencia Jacob sang in Sacrament Meeting. He sang “I Like to Look for Rainbows.” That isn’t the right name but that is how the song starts.

We weren’t sure how it would go since sometimes when Jacob gets up in front of the microphone he starts to improv a bit. But he did great. He went up there with Holly and I played the piano. He started off a little soft and then said right into the microphone “Can I sing for Aunt Kiersten?”

Holly said yes and he began to belt it out. There wasn’t a dry eye in place after he was finished.

The high counselor got up several minutes later. He said, “I don’t know if this is something that Jacob does often but I am glad there were some other speakers so that I could compose myself before coming up here. That was truly angelic.’

“We look at Jacob and it is very easy to see all of his imperfections. But if we look through our spiritual eyes we see that we are the ones with imperfections. He is the perfect one among us.”

Brigham Pontificates

Brigham had to give his first talk in Primary. We talked the day before about what he wanted to talk about. He said he wanted to tell about when Joseph Smith got killed. We told him that that might be a little intense for the Junior Primary and maybe we should talk about something else.

So we went over the story of the restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood and when Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery were baptized. We also had a backup plan that told about the pioneers and “defining moments”.

Well, Sunday afternoon Brigham was sitting in the front of the Primary ready to give his talk. The Primary President announced “We will now have a talk by Brigham DeVore.” I was supposed to help him give his talk but before I could get out of my seat Brigham stepped up, placed both hands on the pulpit and said, “My name is Brigham DeVore and I am going to tell you about how Joseph Smith got killed.”

I ran up there and said “Brigham, why don’t we talk about something else first.”

“Ok Dad.”

So I asked him a few questions:

“When Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery were translating the Book of Mormon what did they read about?”

“Baptism.”

“What did they do?”

“They went to the Susquehanna river.”

“Who did they see there?”

“John the Baptist.”

“What did he give them?”

“The Aaronic Priesthood.”

“Then what did they do?”

“They were baptized in the Susquehanna river.”

I had him tie up with some words about how he wanted to get baptized and then asked him to sit down. He slammed his hand down on the pulpit and yelled, “But I haven’t told them about how Joseph Smith got killed.” So we gave a quick summary about how Joseph Smith was killed and sat down.