The kids gathered around him like he was King Benjamin.
He proceeded to tell the kids that Heavenly Father said you need a chicken to get in to heaven. He took a hand towel and talked to the kids about the Bible and asked the kids what the scriptures were written on back then. The kids answered scrolls. So he rolled up the 2 ends of the towel to look like scrolls. Then he made a joke and put it up to his mouth and pretended they were lips. (He said we were a rough crowd. Maybe we should have laughed more.) :)
Then he had us all sing the 4th article of faith. He brought the towel together so the 4 ends were together and he began pulling the towel out of the corners so they spiraled up. Anyways, he spoke about each of the four principles of the gospel as he pulled the corners. Then for some reason the towel looked like a tooth with roots and he held it up to his mouth like a tooth. (We laughed better that time.) He told us that everyone had to cluck like chickens around the room. (sorry, no pictures of that!) Then he pulled the opposite corners of the towel out on both ends and it became a chicken. (see the pictures.)
Then the chicken was named Vladimir. Vladi for short. He began to tell a story about this chicken and how it went everywhere with his best friend and one day she had to leave the chicken at home in the barn and there was a fire in the barn. When the best friend got home she found the chicken dead laying on top of her little chicks which she had saved from the fire. Elder Clayton then asked the kids who the chicken represented and they all said, "Jesus." He told the kids that Christ died for us and then he bore his testimony. It was quite a presentation and the kids were all totally interested and quiet. Very imaginative little Elder we had over.
