I am in the office while Mary is teaching our class. I will be joining her after the break. Today marks the start of the second week and I gave them a pep-talk this morning about the need for them to buckle down and really start to apply themselves. That it was a great opportunity for them and it was up to them as to how much they learn.

As I was doing some things this morning, I was prompted to open the Book of Mormon and read the start of 1st. Nephi. I think that we are missing and opportunity by not using the Book of Mormon as our text in teaching. Almost everything can be taught from it – including bad English. The advantage is while they learn English they will also learn more about the Gospel.

I am going to try to use this idea in the next hour.