What time are you going to listen?

The answer being “the first time”.

Last Sunday during Sacrament meeting Slade was acting up. He was being very loud and simply would not listen. I asked him a number of times to use his quiet voice and to be reverent only to get sassy remarks in return. So finally I turned to Ben and asked him to take Slade out in the hall and talk to him about listening better in church. Ben took Slade’s hand and led him out to the hallway. Ben relayed what happened out there to me like this.

He first explained to Slade that he needed to listen better in church and he needed to listen to us the first time that we ask him to do or not to do something. Then he sat him against the wall and told him that he was going to go back in to listen and Slade could come in when he was ready to listen, he turned and started back into the chapel. He stopped when he heard Slade crying hysterically. So he went back to Slade and said

“Now what time are you going to listen?”

Slade sat there for a while thinking, then between his sobs said

“In 20 minutes?”

Ben lost all sense of sternness and busted up laughing. He then reminded Slade that the correct answer to that question is

“The First Time”