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This collection posted 07-30-2007

Latter-day Laughs
Edited and Compiled by Trish Manwaring,
Assistant Editor, Meridian Magazine

The Dreaded One
My 5- and 3-year-old boys were playing with monster trucks. My 3-year-old was holding a fierce looking truck named The Predator, with yellow eyes, red teeth and a snarl. He kept forgetting the name and asked me three times. A few minutes later I heard them playing and he said: "Look out, here comes The Creditor!" I'm sure there is a debt reduction lesson somewhere in there.

Melisa Mons
Lansing, Michigan

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Stop, Drop and Roll
My husband was teaching us about first-aid for family home evening. During part of the lesson, he talked
about what to do in case of a fire and we learned how to use the mini fire extinguisher. My husband wanted
to know if Ethan, our 3-year-old, understood everything, so he asked, "So what do we do if there is a fire in our house?" Ethan replied: "Do marshmallows!"

Sarah Furner
Geneva, Switzerland

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System Overload
My 4-year-old daughter has been learning to say her ABCs, to count, and to say her prayers this last year. She must have gotten confused this evening because when she had folded her arms and bowed her head for the dinner prayer, we heard, "One ... Two ... Three ..."

Rachel Raphael
Sterling, Virginia

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Little White Lies
Our son has hit the age when kids start telling lies to stay out of trouble. We told him that it is always OK to tell the truth and that we get upset if he lies. Today at lunch his friend was over and he said, "Spencer, I want the truth — do you want applesauce or not?"

Heidi Totten
Draper, Utah

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Birds of a Feather Flock Together
My daughter recently watched a DVD that featured Big Bird (from Sesame Street) traveling around China. On Sunday at church she listened as a member of the bishopric excused the bishop, who was in China traveling on business. Our 2-year-old daughter shouted out: "Big Bird is in China, too!"

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Dressed in White
One Sunday our bishopric was asked to teach Sharing Time in Primary. The topic we were given was baptism and repentance. After speaking to the children about their baptismal experiences, we took them to see the baptismal font. Then we showed pictures of each latter-day prophet and told when and where each was baptized. My name is Bishop Taylor and John Taylor is my great-great-grandfather. When one of the children chose John's picture, my counselor mentioned that he was my relative. One of the young girls said: "Oh, that’s where the bishop got all of his white hair!"

Jay Taylor

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