Part of my responsibilities at church is to hang out with kids, students, well....everyone I guess. But especially kids and students (now that I think about it I do have a pretty sweet job). Today was Friend Day at City Church and I'm making my rounds checking on things. For some reason I'm needing to ask my sister, Nani, a question and I eventually find her talking to this little Hispanic boy down the Elementary hallway. For whatever reason, you could tell he didn't want to go in the classroom. Nani looked at me and then went on to do something else. Thinking back to the scientific method, I finally gathered that the "look" meant that I needed to help out here. So I bent down, asked him his name, and asked why he didn't want to go in. Come to find out it was his first day and he was scared. I'm thinking....thinking...what to say to get this reluctant kid into the classroom. I asked him if he has ever heard of a "Fun Investigator?" He shook his head "No." A Fun Investigator goes around and tests things to see if they are fun or not and if they aren't he/she makes a note of it and tells someone. I asked him to be my Fun Investigator for the day and anything he sees that isn't fun he was to let me know. I also told him there might be a good chance some fun could sneak in and to be on the look out if it does. After all that, he walked right on in the classroom.
I saw him after church and yelled across the parking lot..."You have fun today?" With a big smile he said, " YES!"
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