Jonah and the Whale

*Lesson Time  in the Nursery today*

okay, I am in charge of the Nursery at church. The Nursery, for those who don't know, is Sunday school for the ages of 18 months - 2 years old. Me and another lady, Sister Clarke, are in charge, it was my turn to give the lessen today. 

Me: We are going to hear a story about a man named Jonah. Now Jonah was sitting one day and god came to him and said "Jonah I need you to go to Nineveh. They are not doing what they should so you need to go talk to them. " Jonah said, "okay" but then thought about it. He did not want to go to Nineveh, it was a scary place. So instead he thought, "i'll just go as far away as possible." So Jonah found a captain and said, "I want to go here" well, seeing as he could pay and all the Captain said okay. But while they were at sea a terrible storm came. Jonah was sleeping and the captain came up to him and said "Jonah we are in a terrible storm, maybe you could pray to your god to get him to free us from it" Jonah decided it was time to come clean so he told them he was  running away from god. So to make it stop, they threw him off the ship. Instantly the storm STOPPED!. so Jonah just hung out in the water but... uh-oh... something is coming towards him -moving the flannel board whale towards Jonah-

Child: a WHALE!

Sister Clark: Yes, its a whale

Me: He swam closer till BAM! - putting the whale over the figure of Jonah- the whale ate Jonah.  Well, the people on the ship didn't know what to do. Eventually they decided, "Not our problem!" and sailed their ship away, leaving Jonah in the whale. Now it had to have been stinky in there. So he sat in that whale for 3 DAYS! He had to sit there with its stinky smell and sit with all the yucky stuff the whale ate. Eventually he prayed to god and said "okay, you get me out of this whale i'll go do what you want." so what did the lord do? He caused the whale to puke up Jonah. So now, not only does he smell like stinky fish, now he smells like Whale barf

* at this point Sister Clarke is giggling. She's been laughing throughout the entire thing at this point and Sister Goats has come in *

Me: So Jonah went to Nineveh. He went to the king and said, " you cannot do these things, you need to stop or the lord will destroy you" The king did not realize they were doing bad things, so he said okay and smelly Jonah went up to a hill. He sat there on this hill, excited to watch the lord destroy Nineveh. God even caused a weed to grow, to give Jonah some shade. "okay god, " he said, "i did my part now destroy them, go on" But the lord wasn't going to destroy Nineveh, they were doing what they were supposed to. So Jonah just waited, and waited and waited. Oh-no... here comes a little worm. It inches its way over and EATS that weed. Now, not only does Jonah smell of fish stomach, and whale barf. Now he has no shade.

* at this point Sister Clarke and Sister Goats and giggling behind the children.*

Me: Okay, now its time for Singing time! Later we'll get to color our OWN fish, but  these fish wont eat us. Now say good bye to Jonah!

Kids: Bye Jonah

Me: - putting Jonah back in the envelope with the other flannel board pieces- Jonahs going to join his wail, but don't worry, the whale wont eat him this time.

*The end of the lessen.*

Apparently I was very amusing telling the tale of Jonah and the Whale. lol

Blessings

While in the class Financial Mathematics, I met a woman who did not understand it. We ended up getting together a few times so i could help her learn what we were going over. Well she passed the class with an A and told me she wanted to bring over "blessings" for me. Well she just brought them over and they are beautiful.


 I knew I needed a vase, so I started looking around and finally found an old one. After cleaning it would I cut the stems, added the food, and put them in the vase. I noticed, then, a rose mom had gotten from school. I thought maybe it would live longer if it was in the vase with the plant food in it, so I put mom's rose in there as well. They just look so pretty and I cannot wait to read that book. Always was curious but now that I have a brand new copy I can read it. 

J.K. Rowling is an amazing author, so I know it will be a good book. I hope everyone has a good day, because I think I will.