Along with graduating from high school - Cam just graduated from Seminary with a four year certificate and scripture mastery all four years. This is a great accomplishment for him (for anyone really) because it required getting up extra early (had to be at the church at 6:10 am) every weekday before school. He is NOT a morning person and requires a certain amount of sleep every day. It took dedication and commitment. The rewards were plentiful - good friends, good lessons, prayers, songs and a bigger-picture-perspective start to every day. I love seminary. My conversion to the church kind of started with seminary. I attended early morning seminary for a year before joining the church. I am so proud that Cam has acquired this foundation. Because the things you learn and feel in seminary stay with you forever.
Cam looking extremely giddy - with Rory, his long time best friend and future BYU room mate.
Cam had these two ladies for both his freshman year and his senior year. They are amazing women - both extremely knowledgeable and capable. All positions in our church are volunteer - so that means these ladies haven't been paid to get up early or prepare these daily lessons. And they have done soooo much beyond that! Both have been teaching seminary (team teaching actually) for many, many years. This was their last year. I don't know what Becky Morgan's educational credentials are but Jan Meehan (on the right) has a Master's degree in Math from Stanford, not to mention the fact that between them they have raised at least a dozen kids and taught many hundreds of seminary students! I feel so indebted to them for their efforts in my son's behalf. They proved over and over how much they truly cared about Cam - and who can ever put a value on that!
The Church educational system is a good thing! And early morning seminary rocks!
4 comments:
Good job Cam! And on a side note, your seminary teachers don't get paid?
Shar - good to hear from you! They get a small stipend for supplies - but it is a calling here and they don't get paid.
Congrats, Cam! and I agree with Shaur...that's amazing to me that they put in that much work for so long without getting paid. Wow.
Wonderful post! So often seminary graduation gets overlooked in the whole high school graduation excitement. These kids have worked so hard at both and seminary, was at times, harder because of the hour and the memorizing and keeping up with scripture reading. What an awesome accomplishment!
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