Prayer

**Disclaimer** It has been a couple days, so I may not have Eli's words exactly, but this is pretty close to what happened.

Eli has always been very interested in giving prayers. When he first started praying on his own he would pray for anyone and everyone in his prayers. Always remembering "Shannon and Kyle to
be good missionaries." We have had a lot of variety with hand motions during the amens , eyes open and closed and who knows what else.

Lately his prayers are one topic.
"Heavenly Father, thank you for the food food please bless it, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Heavenly Father, thank you for the day, please bless bedtime, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

We always let Eli say a family prayer right before bedtime. For a couple of nights now, this is what we've heard:
Eli: "Heavenly Father, thank you for the food......thank you for bedtime, please bless it, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." I said the wrong one! I said the food.

We've always laughed about this, who hasn't said the "wrong prayer" a time or two. So Tuesday night (Morgan was gone Home Teaching) I decided to try and get Eli to think about what he will pray about before hand.
Me: Eli, what should we pray about today? Should we thank Heavenly Father that we could go shopping, that we feel better, and that we can sleep well?
Eli: Yeah.
Me: Okay, can you prayer for those things?
Eli: Heavenly Father, thank you we go shopping, we feel better, please bless us sleep well, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. "

It went so well that Wednesday morning when Eli was going to pray before Morgan went to work that I thought I would try to get him to say a longer prayer again.

Me: Eli what should we pray for this morning?
Eli: Umm, we should pray for (he then gave us a list of about 10 things that he was going to prayer for but I don't remember any of them.)
Me: Okay, go ahead and pray for those things.
Eli" Heavenly Father, thank you for day, please bless all those things, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

If only we could always pray for "All Those Things." Crazy kid!