School

For about 90- 95% of the population in my school of around 1400 people, only .00003 % of them have to wake up at 7 o'clock every school day. This is exactly 4 people in the entire school, and is the amount of people I go to seminary with every morning at 6:30. Because of this my first day of high school was a little bit different from everyone else's first day. While the rest of the kids in the town where still fast asleep in their beds I was showering and getting ready to go to a church class held at a house a few blocks away from my high school. At first I can't say I was especially excited to have to wake up at 6 in the morning everyday just to go to seminary each morning before school, to me school was enough, but after my first year of seminary I could see the true impact it had on me.

Wake up at 6:00, take a quick shower, brush my teeth, throw on some clothes, go to seminary at 6:30 to 7:20, get a bowl of cereal and go to school. This was a schedule no more than three high school students could testify to, and not one non-Mormon could truly appreciate. Going to seminary every morning and having to wake up an hour and half after most of your classmates is a big sacrifice, but is a sacrifice that almost all Mormon high school students undergo. Why? One might ask, why wake up that early and lose so much sleep. This is the same question I asked myself after slaving over getting out of bed for the first few days of seminary. I didn't know if it was a sacrifice I was willing to make, yet I was determined to try. After a few weeks of my freshman year I began to get the hang of it, and after the next few months it was something I had to go to each morning in order to start the day of right.

Yet seminary did not impact me simply because it was something I had to go to each day, for that wasn't the reason at all. Seminary was not only a sacrifice but was a challenge to me personally to test my faith and my belief