Jordan's Last Day of Seminary

Jordan at 7:35 am, leaving seminary for the last time of his freshmen year.

Hiding from the camera- anyone can do that.

But your mother capturing you hiding in the side mirror-- that is pretty funny!

Still waiting for that picture- got a bit of the sweatshirt!  Come on Jordan, let us see your smiling face.

Finally he gives up when he knows his Mom is not going to take him to school until she gets a picture.  Thanks Jordan--love you.

Exciting day... what this means--at least until September, no more getting up at 5:30 in morning Monday-Friday.

What is seminary?  In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) it is a religious class teens take for 4 years starting when they are Freshman.  This year they studied the Old Testament.  Scott and I grew up in Utah and seminary for us was during the school day- it was on our school schedule as released time and you would go to the seminary building near campus during that period.  No extra effort required.  When we lived in Ohio-- the teens there did home study and would go to the church building once a week for instruction and then study the rest of the week at home.  For Jordan, depending on his school schedule he has the option of home study (yuk- who wants more homework) or attending early morning seminary.  He choose early morning seminary.  

Did his parents make him go?... no!  Some mornings he never did make it out of bed- during band season it was really tough.  But in order to pass he needed to have an 85% attendance or higher.  And tardies added up to absentees.   So almost every morning I would hear his alarm go off at 5:30.  Then I would hear the shower going.  Then around 6:30ish I would hear "MAAAAAAM!"  And that was my cue it was time to drive him to seminary.    

So I asked him this morning what was the highlight and low light of his year in seminary.

Low light- Getting up early

Highlight- Being with his friends

What I observed from his year in seminary-

•  Responsibility and commitment.  Making the choice every morning to go and be on time.
  
• Knowledge of the scriptures-- he was preaching to Chance and reciting scriptures on being obedient to your parents.
  
• That Scott and I have one heck of a great teenager!!