Kneeling in Prayer

By Carol Nielson

Today, dear Father, I will show how quiet I can be, To thank thee for the many things that thou hast given me (Children’s Songbook, page 27).

One Sunday after sacrament meeting, the children and we teachers were to go directly to our classrooms instead of meeting first in the Primary room. When I got to my classroom, I realized that I had left my teaching materials in the Primary room. I told my class to sit down, that I would be right back. Before I hurried away, I said, “Be quiet now!”

When I returned, the classroom seemed unusually quiet. I slowly opened the door and peeked inside. My students were all kneeling, their arms folded and heads bowed, quietly waiting for me to return to have class prayer.

I want to say thank you to my class! You are all really trying to do what Jesus Christ would want you to do.

Sister Nielson’s eight-year-old Valiant class in the Chico Fourth Ward, Chico California Stake: (left to right) Victor Torres, Xochil Torres, Matthew Comfort, Jonathan Eller, Kristen Ivy, Israel Hepworth, and Lyle Nelson.

Illustrated by Dick Brown