David and Goliath

When Andrew reads to the kids from the scriptures he likes to tell them the stories from the scriptures. He will paraphrase and translate the story in his own words to make them understandable to the kids and then read key verses word for word. The other night he was telling Lyman about the story of David and Goliath.

He started out telling him about the two groups of people. The Israelites (good guys) and the Philistines (bad guys - not sure on the spelling here but I don't care). He then told about how the bad guys had a really big giant that they were going to send to fight for them named Goliath. He told him that Goliath and the Philistines were saying rude things (meaning blasphemous etc) to the Israelites. The following conversation went much like this:

Lyman said, "rude like saying Poo"
Dad replied, "yes" hiding his smile.
Mom and Grandma hid their faces behind their books laughing because Lyman has been taught that saying rude/gross words like poo, pee and toot just for the fun of it and to be funny is not good and we say it is rude. It was also funny as we tried to imagine Goliath really saying things like "poo" and "pee" to the Israelites to upset them.

Then after a little while of composure forced on by reading a few verses verbatim, Andrew finished the story with how David slew Goliath by flinging a stone and hitting him in the forehead. It was a fun evening for all of us and Lyman learned its a good idea not to say rude things.