“Our Creative Friends,” Friend, Aug. 2010, 38–39
Our Creative Friends
Parents
You are the truth,
My shining light
That guides me every day.
You are the loving people
Who teach me how to pray.
I look inside
Your glowing heart
If I want to know
The choices I should make
Or which way I should go.
So when you’re feeling lonely
And don’t know what to do,
I will run up and give you a cuddle,
And my love I will show to you.
Jasmine H., age 11, New South Wales, Australia
From Cumorah’s Hill
Sun overhead,
rich soil beneath,
birds sing songs,
flowering wreath.
Peaceful.
Joseph climbed.
Moroni waited.
The devil so foolish
filled with hatred.
Sun in the clouds,
clouds in the sky.
Joseph met with Angel Moroni.
Sacred.
Faithful S., age 10, Colorado
Obedience
It was just the other day,
That I and my friends went off to play.
We went to the ravine;
It was an inviting scene.
I was disobeying my parents.
I wasn’t using my common sense.
I was found by my mother.
I had disappointed my Heavenly Father.
I sat in my room.
My heart was full of gloom.
I will not again disobey.
I won’t let the Spirit ever go away.
Taylor B., age 9, Utah
Kristen G., age 9, Kentucky
Eden M., age 8., Michigan
Kaylee B., age 6, Oklahoma
Manasseh F., age 9, Arizona
Taylor M., age 10, Utah
Kayla O., age 9, California
Micah D., age 8, Pennsylvania
Lincoln F., age 9, South Africa
Amber H., age 7, Wisconsin
Devin G., age 11, Georgia
Korleyan K., age 9, Texas
Phoebe G., age 10, Hawaii
Laura W., age 11, Utah
Eliza P., age 10, Ohio