Only 2 More Days

Seminary is drawing to a close and while it has been a good, full year and I will be glad for the rest, I will miss it.
Tomorrow we are having our end-of-year auction where they will be able to spend their hard-earned talents, or seminary dollars, on some small but fun items they can use over the summer.
Always included are Bath and Body Works products. There are mechanical pencils with word search and sudoku puzzles, pillows with home-crafted pillow cases, candles, travel games, picture frames, edibles like various candies in boxes and tins, candy bars, brownies, and chips and salsa. In addition to the summer stuff there are cd's of girl's camp songs and the sound tracks to the New Testament and Book of Mormon seminary videos. We always enjoy having a guest auctioneer for added fun, and there will be some small refreshments afterwards.
On Thursday we will close with our traditional eggs and sausage and pancake breakfast while watching a video, probably "The Touch of The Master's Hand". Here is where I will give the kids the tile boards I made for them with John 3:16 and a picture of the Savior in the Red Robe with him smiling. I figure, sometimes kids get told frequently how they need to straiten up, stop this or that, or do better, so that's why I wanted the Lord to be smiling at them. Life is long, they are young and they NEED to know that He loves them NOW, as they are today. We all need this reminder from time to time.
Anyway, they will hurry through the door with their treasures. They will call out, "Have a great summer, Sister Chandler!" and the room will be left silent and empty, but full of mixed emotion, memories and the anticipation of an exciting year of Book of Mormon learning on the horizon.