Stephanie's Treasure Box Monologue

Stephanie’s Treasure Box! Third runner up is the window! Second runner up goes to *drumroll* the washing machine! First runner up *dramatic pause and then drumroll* my wedding ring! That means that first place goes to my Scriptures! Wow! Scriptures! What a great honor! It looks like there is even a special love letter to you congratulating you on your first-place role in Stephanie’s Treasure Box! *The magic will continue after this fifteen minute break. Stay tuned to find out what Stephanie had to say to her scriptures, and how they compared against the other contestants!*

My Dearest Scriptures, I’m sure you aren’t surprised that you won the contest, even though you are older than all of the other contestants! You rate above the rest, and
Now, you may be thinking the washing machine! What can the washing machine possibly do to earn your love. Well, not all of my love, dear Scriptures, but it has some redeeming qualities yet. While the washing machine helps me to appreciate all the hard work my husband does in sticky bee yards, by studying you daily, you help me to see all the hard work my husband does as a Priesthood man of God. The washing machine can take away all of that sticky honey, but life gets a little sticky sometimes. You help me get through all of life’s sticky messes, by showing my the detergent of The Atonement of Christ and His endless Grace! Sometimes, washing machines can take quarters to clean the sweat and blood off of our clothes. You my dear scriptures have been with me through it all, and helped me to understand that the tears and the sleepless nights we have had together are but a small price to know my Saviour. To help me understand that my sins and pains are not my own, because He has paid the ultimate price for them. That my pains, sins, and sorrows were bought with blood. Washing machines may wash off the dirt of this world, but you, my scriptures, have helped me to understand ordinances and covenants, like baptism which can clean the dirt from our souls and we can become clean once more. You remind me of these covenants with the sacrament prayers, as we renew our covenants each