When I opened the door, I’ll never forget this very touching scene. I sat there for a few minutes and didn’t hear anything. Usually what I would hear when I was coming up to the room was his voice crying, or chatting his standard “I want my mom!”.īut this time something was different. I went and taught and came back at the end of the three hour block. He said it would be okay, and I left and paced the hallway for a few minutes, hearing him start with his crying and chanting.Īt the time I had a calling that required me to teach. We took him in the door and he started to get even more upset.Īnd this good brother came over and picked him up. So we took Austin to class like normal, getting ready to explain this to the new nursery leaders. We didn’t know them real well, and they didn’t know us. Of course, this was very frustrating for him, as it was for us.Ībout 8 months into this things still hadn’t changed and it just so happened that new nursery leaders were called. He really didn’t want anything to do with nursery no matter what we did. For 2 full hours, on and off, he cried… and chanted “I want my mom!”. Now Austin wasn’t one of those kids that went in and cried for 10 minutes and then stopped. When he makes his mind up he doesn’t budge and he had made his mind up early on that he didn’t want to be associated with nursery. If any of you know him, he is an extremely strong headed child. “When our son Austin started nursery he was pretty reluctant to have anything to do with it. After church I asked him if I could share this. The following story was related this past Sunday in church by a good friend of ours, Jess Arbon.
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