Lego Lingo

Everyone is a spirit son or daughter of Heavenly Father. This is what they have always been trying to teach me and I am not here to tell you any different. Everyone really is a spirit son or daughter of a Heavenly King. However, me being mortal and human, I loose sight of that and I often have to remind myself of this principle.

In my English class, I have a girl that kindly reminds me to remind myself of the principle every day. To put it in blunt terms, she gets on my nerves.

From day one I judged her and I feel bad about that. I guess what you could call it, is trying to figure her out, instead of judging. I never settled on a single statement like, "she's weird", I just kept saying to myself, "give it another chance". I was sure that she was a really nice and cool girl. Now, I know she's a really cool girl! As for nice...I'll let you decide.

This is what happened to change my mind:

Today, we were experimenting on how to give good directions. Our teacher gave us a Lego figure and told us to write directions on how to put it back together. We could only use words and no pictures.

As the teacher said, "split up into groups", I evilly tried to get into any group but hers. However, the Lord spited my evil ways as I heard her voice say, "Hey, Jessica, can I be in your group?"

Now, I'm not that evil. So I complied and our group got together at explaining how to put together a Lego duck.


We began to examine the shapes so that we could put down specific terms instead of, "that one white Lego piece". Three of them looked like the red and blue connected pieces below.

But what were they called?

So I began to pull out the old dusty 3rd grade lessons about shapes from my brain. What was it called?

Finally, I remembered just as my teacher was coming along to check on our progress.

Me: "A trapezoid! I think that's what it is."

Girl: "That is NOT a trapezoid! Trapezoids have two parallel lines with angled lines on the sides. You must be thinking of a trapezium and if so, that is not this shape either."

Such passion!!

Oh yeah! I love people that take things too seriously because that means I can fake-take seriously along with them.

So I said:

"Wow....well I won't make that mistake again."

All the meanwhile, my teacher is laughing so hard.


So, in the end, I have now figured out what this girl is made of:passion!!

Considering that she is a math major, she should be passionate about her subject she knows best about. GO YOU!!











Just for the record, I looked up both a trapezoid and a trapezium.











I am not very good at math but from my calculations, I think she should change her major