Look at these adorable kids! Holy smokes! I kept calling them the king and queen today. They are pretty good lookin if i do say so myself :)
Jerzi Dixon 6 years old
I have to blog this story. Bear with me, it needs to be documented for Koy to read at a later time. Koy hates church. Its NO secret! When football starts, he hates going even MORE!! We struggle each and every Sunday to get him up, showered and out the door. He will be baptized in a month. I came to the conclusion that i will NOT force him to be baptized, nor will i force him to go to church. I will force school, practice and other things, but Church i won't.
To the story..
Last week he didn't want to go. He was mad the Broncos weren't on TV, that started the day off, but he was just having a bad attitude all morning. I said, lets just go without him. Kurt disagreed, saying Koy, you either come or you won't watch any football today. I disagreed with that tactic (this is still something we work on) I say if you give him an ultimatum like that, he will choose church and then later say 'i only went to church because my parents wouldn't let me watch football if i didn't' Again, just my opinion. We loaded up for Church and he came stumbling out, grumpy and mad to be going. When we got to church he didn't want to go in, so we left him in the car. I watched the parking lot for about 20 minutes when he finally walked in and went to class (this was not the first time this has happened)
Sacrament time came and the attitude was worse. I finally said 'just go home Koy, we don't want you here if this is how you are going to act' He said Fine i'll walk home. I said 'Fine, but as you walk you need to really think about being baptized, and decide if its something you are going to do or not. If you choose to be baptized, you will have to come to church and be happy about it, if you choose not to, you can stay home while we come to church' he said OK.
About 20-30 minutes passed and i felt i needed to come home. I told Kurt i was leaving and i drove home. Koy was standing on the front porch locked out. I pulled in and he got in my van. We had a talk that i will never forget! He told me how he had gotten home and was so hot and thirsty and was locked out so he said a prayer, i pulled up right after his prayer. He told me that he decided he wanted to be baptized, and that he would go to church, but that didn't mean he liked it. I told him i don't like it all the time either, but sometimes we have to do things we don't like, like practicing for a football game, you can't play in the game if you don't practice. He said "We can do hard things huh mom" I said Yea Koy we can.
After our talk i felt an overwhelming peace come over me. I knew things would be ok. I worried about this Sunday, would he fight us like normal, or would he really remember how he felt last week.. First thing this morning he was upset the Broncos weren't on TV again. I told him that if he couldn't act like a big boy when he team wasn't on, or if he was going to throw fits when they lost, that we wouldn't allow football on Sundays anymore. I said nothing about Church, just his attitude. I left the room. A few minutes later i heard him having breakfast with Jerzi and Libbi and he seemed great! I pulled Kurt aside and said 'what'd you promise him if he'd stop his fit?' Kurt said nothing. Koy had calmed himself down and changed his attitude all on his own. This was HUGE! He then says "mom, can i wear my suit today for the Primary Program?"
You bet Koy. You bet.
The program went great! Luke, Eric Abby Emree Brent and Jo came to watch them. This was a good thing for my kids to see that football and soccer and sports are NOT all that matter. Their friends and cousins came to support a Primary Program as well.
A good lesson learned.
A good Sunday.
A good boy about to be baptized!
Koy Jedd Dixon 7 years old
