"I Don't Eat Things With Feet"

So, Kolby had an assignment to give a talk for his primary class in church yesterday. The talk was supposed to be about the scriptures and how they teach about Heavenly Father and Jesus. We asked Kolby what his favorite scripture story was, and his response was, “the part about the Lamanites.” (For those of you who are unfamiliar with The Book of Mormon, the Lamanites were a tribe of people who were the enemies of the Nephite tribe, who mostly did not follow the commandments, and who loved war and contention – so Kolby’s choice of a the Lamintes as his favorite people in the book was a rather funny one). So, here is the talk that Kolby helped write and presented in front of the other children at church yesterday:

“I like to sing “Book of Mormon Stories” with my family. I like to read the scriptures because they teach about Jesus and Heavenly Father. I like everything in the Book of Mormon. I read the scriptures with my family at family home evening. My favorite part of the scriptures is when it talks about the Lamanites. I also like to read about when Jesus was born. And some scripture stories I like are Noah and the Ark, Nephi building the ship, and Ammon and the sheep. Reading the scriptures makes me feel good inside. We should read the scriptures because Jesus commanded us to.”

So after we helped Kolby prepare his talk the other night we were reading the children’s scripture stories with the pictures and Kolby wanted to read about the Lamanites. So Michael found a chapter that had several illustrations of the Lamanites and one was some men hunting for a deer. So in the middle of our scripture reading, we ended up having a long conversation about that illustration. Kolby asked what they were doing to the deer, and Michael said they were going to eat it. Kolby thought that was gross, and he said that people don’t eat deer. We told him that some people do eat deer, and he let us know that he does not eat deer. “I don’t eat things with feet,” Kolby added. Michael asked him if he ate chicken, and he said yes. And when Michael explained that chicken have feet too, Kolby said that he doesn’t eat their feet. After we explained to Kolby that the people were not going to eat the feet or the outside of the deer, and they would only eat the inside and cook it so it would be healthy for them, he told us that he would eat deer too.