Acting out the Scriptures

Bracken and I have been trying to sing a hymn together each day. We were singing Hymn #13 "An Angel From On High." He started asking me, "What does 'the long silence broke' mean?", "What is 'descending'?", "What sacred record?", "What does, "Sealed by Mornoi's hand' mean?"

I started doing a lot of explaining, then had an idea. "Do you want to act out the story?" He thought this was a great idea, so we headed to the kitchen for cereal boxes and aluminum foil to make gold plates. ("Mom, we have to have rings too. Like in the picture." Thankfully I had little rings in my craft box) He pretended to be Moroni and wrote some scriptures (scribbles) on the plates with permanent markers. Then we found sunglasses for the urim and thummim. He used his tools to pretend to make a stone box to put the gold plates in and we buried them. Then he was Joseph Smith and I was the angel Moroni and I told him the gold plates were in the Hill Cumorah. He had to come back 4 times before he could take them out. Then he put on the Urim and Thummim and "translated" the gold plates. He thought this was the coolest game ever, and we played the same version at least five times that day. That night when he went to bed he said, "Let's act out the scriptures again tomorrow!"