Liam

I've recently taught Liam, who had thinking a lot about bad guys and people killing people and dying (I don't know why), that we want to live a happy life but that it's okay to die because our spirits live and we get to see Jesus again and other loved ones and that will make us very happy... that if I died or he died, I would be super sad and miss him so much, more than I could handle, I would need Heavenly Father to help me keep living if I lost any of my children or he would be really sad and miss me if I died... but the person who dies would be happy and peaceful if they lived a good life and choose to do what's good and right and be especially happy if they believed in Jesus and learned about Him and loved Him. That Jesus overcame death and someday, sometime after Jesus comes to Earth again, we'll even get our bodies back.

Liam told me the other day "Mom, if a bad guy tries to kill us, we should tell him 'Stop, if you kill me you will be unhappy but I will be okay, I'll be happy and with Jesus again, but you will have done something really bad and it will not make you happy' ".

I love when he takes something he is taught, thinks about it, and tells me in a different way how it makes sense to him.

His other thoughts he has shared with me (that I can recall, he has lots of thoughts) are the following:

• Mom, I'm grateful for my life and our home and my family. I'm really happy.
• He said a prayer in primary class at church a little while back... we had gotten a lot of new people at church and at the end of his prayer he said "Help us to be responsible and love each other."
• Mom, toys are not important. People are important. I have three dollars I can give to someone who needs it.
• Violet was sad because a little girl at school doesn't play with her anymore, this friend plays with another girl now, unless the other girl is absent... I told Violet I hope she never shuts other friends out because she has new friends but invites them to play too because she knows what it feels like to be left out. Then Liam said "Violet, do you know that I am your friend?" and he gave her a hug and a kiss on the cheek.

Wish I could remember all his sweet, thoughtful thoughts, actions, and words.