Scripture study

We read the scripture stories with pictures for our family scripture study before going to bed. We have the Book of Mormon Stories and the Old Testament Stories. Ellie loves to look at the pictures and pretend to read it, or she points out things in the pictures. For example, she would point at a sick person or people fighting and say, "아야 아야 (Ouch)." or pictures of food or fruit (the tree of life) and say, "eat, eat." Or point out fire and say, "아뜨 아뜨 (hot, hot)."

Alden's gotten really good at reading, and he can read most of the stories without any help (occasionally he needs help with reading words like shadrach meshach and abednego). A lot of times, he has favorite stories he likes to read repeatedly, and lately, it's been the story of David and Goliath. 

It's really wonderful to read stories from the scriptures and have the kids become familiar with them, but sometimes it gets really hard to explain things, especially when Al asks questions that I don't exactly know how to answer.

Alden: (dramatically) Goliath came at David to fight. Then David put a stone in his sling and threw the stone! ... Why did he throw the stone?

YY: So he can hit Goliath.

Alden: But hitting is not very nice.

YY: Yeah. But Goliath is a very bad guy. (Then I thought hitting shouldn't be permitted even if it's at a bad guy.) Well, hitting is bad but during a war, sometimes it's okay to hit bad guys.

Alden: The stone hit Goliath in the head. Goliath fell to the ground! David took Goliath's sword and CUT OFF HIS HEAD!!! Why did he do that?

YY: Um... So he can ... Um... Well, that way, Goliath can hurt REALLY bad and not be bad anymore. Heavenly Father said it was okay.

Anyway... It goes on like that during many nights, and sometimes I just pretend I didn't hear the question. Oops... Hopefully he can grow up and understand better the way Heavenly Father works...