Back in my day....

I teach the 7-turning 8 year-olds in Primary. It's never a dull Sunday. Haha

A couple of weeks ago I was teaching how Heavenly Father protects us and gave the example of how He protected baby Jesus by sending Joseph an angel to take his family to Egypt. I was supposed to give an example of Heavenly Father protecting me. I shared with the class of the time when I was in highschool, dating a kid that lived literally over the mountain, and my car broke down on the side of the mountain, in the middle of the night, two or three miles from civilization. I explained to them that we didn't have cell phones back then (you should've seen the disbelief on their little faces). I told them that I prayed (I really did! Not making this up!) and that a few minutes later a young woman came driving by that took me to her house so that I could call my dad.

Several hands went up at this point.

Me: "Yes?" calling on one of my favorites (you all have a favorite. don't deny it)
Kid: "I thought you didn't have a cell phone."
M: "I didn't"
K: "But you just said you called your dad. How did you do that without a cell phone??" Other kids voice their agreement.
M: "I used a phone at the girl's house. Don't any of you have phones attached to your walls at your house?" Receiving completely blank stares now, like I'm asking them how many of them have elephants in their back yards. I try again. "Do any of you have.... cordless phones?"......

"OH YEAH!!! We have those!!"

Oh. My. Lands. Yeah. Felt my age that day. Hahaha