“Better Than First Place,” Friend, May 2005, 43
Better Than First Place
One day at school we were having a limbo contest. To do the limbo, you have to walk under a pole without touching it while bending over backwards.
If you touch the pole or the ground, you’re out of the game. When I went under the pole, my knee touched the ground. My teacher didn’t see what happened, so she asked me if I touched the ground. I knew that if I told the truth I would be out, but I told her that my knee touched the ground anyway. I was out of the game, but at the end I got the honesty award. My mom said that was better than first place any day.
Meghann Nixon, age 8, is a member of the Oviedo Ward, Lake Mary Florida Stake.
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