Beneath the Wraps

What trophies, medals, awards and certificates have you earned throughout your life?   How many have you kept?           Well this post ought to be short and sweet.           I think I was in the fourth grade when I was called to the main office to have my picture taken as student of the month.   I don't know what happened to the photo or certificate.   I do not remember retrieving it from the box of treasures that mom had saved.           I had ribbons from seminary here and ribbons for my targeteer flag here .           I won a glass bowling pin filled with m&m's.   It was my "gutter ball" trophy.   Not that it's cool to boast that I had the most gutter balls of anyone who joined the league.   It was cute though.   And I enjoyed the m&m's....

        At the time  I was enrolled in seminary, there was a program for students who had the desire to participate in afterschool programs of challenging seminary students from other schools in what came to be known as "The Seminary Bowl"         Seminary Bowl included a panel of students trained to answer questions relating to that year's gospel topic.  There was also the "scripture chase" on which team could find a certain scripture the quickest.  Each week (or however often we met) our instructors would give us ribbons featuring our school color.  On the ribbon was marked in letters that started each word of different scriptures;  one made up for a certain scripture that we should have memorized that week         I had saved them all in a scrapbook.  I think it might have been the one that grandpa had given me; one that fell apart, one that I had attempte...