Being Teachable

I am so grateful to be a Nursery Teacher. In the church I attend, we are served through a lay ministry, meaning, no one earns a paycheck for their service in the church. We all have different opportunities to serve and change callings (or "positions") fairly regularly. For the past 15 months I have been the Nursery Leader. Instead of attending classes and being taught, I spend the two classroom hours tending to the children ages 18 months to 3 years. I love it and it might be the easiest position I have held in the church as an adult, but sometimes I miss being taught myself. Our schedule goes from receiving the children to free play time, to a lesson, to music time, to a snack, to coloring, to blowing bubbles, to reading stories to closing activity. It is my duty to teach these children in their youth about the basic principles and concepts of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Ultimately, it is my duty to open the opportunity for these children to feel and start recognizing the Holy Spirit. I honestly can't say that I perform this duty very well. I'm trying and I'm learning. And, I am taught.
Today we had a visiting child whom I will refer to as "Boy". His family lived here several years ago and they were back for a brief visit today.
Boy was my teacher today. I had prepared a lesson about The Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ. I thought I knew how the lesson would go and had anticipated certain responses (or, non-responses as the case may be...). We had our song and prayer and then I began with an open question about favorite bedtime stories. Boy raised his hand and then related what his favorite story is. It brought tears to my eyes to listen to this beautiful son of Our Heavenly Father tell me, in his own words, the story of Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the cross and his resurrection. The Spirit was so powerful in the room. Because Boy has been taught the gospel in his own home, he was able to share and bring the power of the Holy Ghost, that of testifying of truth, into our classroom at church. Because of his sweet and pure testimony, my lesson was much more powerful and I again was reminded that Christ has restored His church in full power of the priesthood to the earth in these latter days. I felt the power and love of our Heavenly Father from Boy's testimony as well as the words I spoke and testified to in our lesson today. I am so grateful to be taught and pray to be more teachable in the future so that I will be taught more from On High as I was today.
I thank Boy and his precious family for being obedient to God's plan and teaching him the gospel so that he could share that gift with all of us today.