I want to Amen.

A miraculous thing happened today. Stop the presses! Hold the phone...

The Roberts Family made it to church on time today.

And not just on time I might add; early. It was the first time since we've been out here that its happened; the first time we were able to sit in a pew without inconveniencing the persons we were cramming in next to. As we had quite a bit of time left until the meeting started, it was my darling husbands grand idea to let princess run out a little bit of energy to keep her quiet for the meeting, or at least calm. It worked rather brilliantly I thought; I was quite pleased with her behavior. They opened the meeting without a peep from the dear sweet child we know as our own. She was calm and sat right between mommy and daddy just staring up at the speaker as he spoke. When it was time to sing she opened the hymn and "read" along chanting softly anything she thought she could mimic. It was very adorable. Pretty soon it was time for the opening prayer to be offered and baby girl folded her arms and bowed her head like she does every time we pray.

And then the prayer began.

Before I tell you exactly what happened, let me remind you that my beautiful baby is now a year and a half year old with short patience and her own agenda. The attention span of a 20 month old doesn't always last incredibly long. They get bored and want to move on.

Unfortunately, within a few second of the prayer getting started, this little lady decided she was done praying. She looked up to daddy and said, just as sweet as can be, I swear

"I want to Amen."

Over and over, and over again. Until finally... In the name of Jesus Christ... Amen.

AMENNN!!

Little miss sounded off like she needed to shout it from the hilltops. It seems as though it were a big, huge sigh of relief. And seemed, in my mind at least, to last for an eternity.

I a b s o l u t e l y c o u l d n ' t b e l i e v e i t .

I was absolutely red in the face. My DH, of course, was laughing uncontrollably to himself so was about all of the now, turned-around-in-their-seats members' in the congregation. I must point out that today happened to be fast-and-testimony meeting and so there were lot of testimonies and thus, amens, given and none of which were as loudly broadcasted by our obnoxious daughter. Thank goodness.

If this fast Sunday has taught me anything, its to stick to the basics when praying with young children. Also, chocolate chip pancakes might be a bit too much sugar right before early morning church.

Well I think this has drug on a bit long so until next time....

A M E N.