Thank you WmLee, that was really great advice!!! I do have a journal I keep in there and I do write down what's from the lesson and what I 'learn' from there. I even put down the dates as well. I know it's really hard for the teachers who teach seminary to wake up so early, as we do. I just feel like she doesn't even like teaching and she dreads being there. She just became a person that is only cool outside of seminary.
One time she had us get into groups and teach a lesson for a day. We all did this and 3 groups had 50 minutes to teach and we had to use all those 50 minutes. When it got to this one group they were to teach the same amount of time but they only taught for 10 minutes. She let them stop after this time as well. It didn't really bother me, but it bothered other people. This is where a lot of favoritism came into play.
I use to have such a great seminary teacher who use to put everything in more than just the scriptures and more about life lessons and what dealt with the topic. We were able to have much more open discussion and spiritual experiences to share with each other. I felt like I learned so much from her as opposed to what I'm learning in seminary now. My old seminary teacher told her she would even substitute for her if she ever needed anyone and she would never let her do it. I could understand if it would make someone feel like we prefer her over the new seminary teacher but, that wouldn't happen. We'd just have a better substitute that we were familiar with their teaching style
than the substitutes we get when she doesn't wake up earlier enough after we call her or such to see if she comes.
And I know there are days that it does get boring and I will talk to my friend for a little but I make sure I'm not loud. We use to do seminary scripture mastery a lot but she just quit on that and a lot more people had a lot done last year opposed to this year. I feel like me and two other people are doing the most on that at the moment.
I even tried talking to her, and I asked her to send me an e-mail back with what days I miss. I don't miss seminary unless I miss school days except for one time when I had mid-terms for my college class and I was really stressing out. She never replied back to me, it's been over a week.
I love seminary and all but it's just to the point where why even bother going anymore if I can't get that spiritual experience or have a good time learning about what I'm being taught. There's 3 kids who use to be a regular that are converts in the church and they stopped coming in the middle of the year because they said they weren't getting enough spiritually fed and they felt like they weren't learning anything waking up this early anymore.
I feel like she needs to put a little more effort into her lessons and help us be more involved than just sitting there asking questions all the time and not having a discussion or something good with it.
I have approached her many times with being a direct and honest as I can be. I don't know if I should just suck it up and get it over with for the next month and half I have left, or try to keep doing something about it until I figure out how to fix it.
Thanks so much :)
