Book of Mormon Camp - Day 1

Our ward primary is having a special R.E.D. week this week. It stands for Read Every Day. They gave us red ribbons to tie around our mailboxes to remind everyone to read and they gave us suggestions of what to do to help us read everyday. It is fun to be involved in something that is so unifying. In our house we already read every night as part of our bedtime routine so I wanted to do something different to make this week special for us as well. So, Book of Mormon Camp was born. I thought that since the kids were off track we could do some special activities relating to the Book of Mormon throughout the week.

We kicked Book of Mormon Camp off with a trip downtown to the Church History Museum. They currently have a chilren's Book of Mormon exhibit and we went to check it out. While downtown we also walked through the Conference Center, wandered through Temple Square and visited the Christus. It was beautiful and the kids were thoroughly entertained. We even have little Maddy with us this week and she joined in the fun.
On the way home, we stopped at Deseret Book and bought some journals for the kids. We talked about how the Book of Mormon was like a journal for the ancient prophets and if they hadn't written down what was going on we wouldn't have the Book of Mormon today. So, when we got home the kids all took a few minutes to write or draw what we did today and what their favorite parts were. This was Holly's entry about today.