Lyla goes to primary

When Lyla first started going to nursery she loved it. Then at the beginning of the new year she went from being the youngest surrounded by older kids to the oldest surrounded by babies, including some poor babies who were always crying. Lyla decided that she no longer liked nursery, in fact she really didn't like it. The only way she would go is if Matt and I would sit in nursery. We did that for a while, but she still didn't love it. Matt and I thought that Lyla would probably do a lot better if she were in Primary. We talked to the Primary President and she agreed to allow Lyla into primary early. I was a little nervous the first Sunday she was to go and was really hopeful that things would go as well as I assumed they would. Her first Sunday she happily marched herself in and sat down with the Sunbeams and loved it from the very first second. I waited for a while and peeked on her, one of the Primary leaders came out and said that Lyla was doing a great job. She was sitting reverently with her arms folded and singing all the words to the the primary songs nice and loud (we had been practicing the primary songs so she would know them.) When I came to pick her up everyone came to tell me what a great job she had done in Primary. They said she even volunteered to say the closing prayer in front of all the primary in closing exercises. They knelt down to help her say the prayer, but she said she could say it herself (later Olivia informed me that Lyla had done a good job saying her prayer, she didn't say "thanks you for the ice cream" something that she likes to say and usually causes her to erupt in laughter.) The primary president said that during sharing time Lyla raised her hand to answer questions and the primary president said she thought "oh isn't that cute Lyla's raising her hand to try to be like the big kids...but was so surprised that when they called on her she actually gave the correct answer. Last week they asked if Lyla could give a talk in closing exercises. When I told her she was going to give a talk she became absolutely ecstatic, she was so excited.  When Lyla gave her talk and she did an awesome job.  When they called her name she marched right up to the podium with a huge smile. I went up to whisper the talk for her to repeat . Before she started I told her to speak loudly so that grandmother could hear her all the way in Japan, she said she would.  She spoke in such a nice loud clear voice, she did such a great job. The primary leader came up to me and said that not only did Lyla have such a great voice tone, but she was so expressive and had a big smile while she was speaking. I was so proud of Lyla, she is such and outgoing and friendly little girl.