Spritzetoni's father suggested she use images of the story by artists like Rembrandt to illustrate it. She didn't. |
“I’ve never been all that shy, so when they asked who might
be able to teach, I just said that I would do it,” explained Sister
Spritzetoni. She continued, “And then I realized that we were doing 2 Samuel 11,
and I thought that that might be a really bad idea.” Spritzetoni initially worried
about how she, as an 18 year-old first year student who decided to start in the
summer, would address the topic of sexual purity in a class with other, mostly
older BYU undergraduates.
When he found out about his daughter’s pedagogical and theological challenge, Sister Spritzetoni’s father had plenty of advice. As a way of addressing the lesson’s central doctrines in an engaging manner, he suggested that she
purchase a small, plastic kiddy pool and then encourage class members to act
out the story. He also sent along a list of discussion questions that she could
use. Some of those questions included, “how would David have had time to wander
around on the roof with so many wives probably already nagging him about
repainting the dining room?,” “how could David be an example of the dangers of
poor planning?”, and “how many soldiers could have ended up dead and their
wives pregnant if David had had the Internet?”
In spite of such feedback, Spritzetoni decided to simply
follow the manual. In a moment of inspiration as she began the lesson, she also
felt guided to “limit comments made by the three awkward returned missionaries
in the third row.” Class members seemed
to find the lesson a success, partly because of how it reinforced scripture
knowledge and testimony and partly because four class members managed to
exchange phone numbers.
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