Most Popular Primary Songs

I'm currently the Primary Chorister for our ward. This Sunday I felt like the kids needed a break from all the hard work I've put them through to learn and practice new songs. I figured it would be easy to find a list of the top ten most popular Primary songs. Nope. I found lots of lists of opinions on the best, but I felt like they included songs that aren't sung often and were missing key favorites.

I LOVE Primary music and have sung the songs from the book all my life. That means I probably know more Primary songs (and LDS Hymns, for that matter) than most people. It also means that my perception of songs that everyone should know is skewed. I keep going up there with a song I feel like all the kids will know by heart and even the teachers look at me like I'm crazy.

Luckily for me, John hated Primary when he was in it, especially the music. That means that the only songs he knows are the most popular. We went through and he picked out all the songs he knows and we weeded down to the top ten. I leaned more toward the fun songs than the reverent ones, which I think is fair since kids really catch on to fun ones even if they don't sing them as often.

John told me to post it since I had such a hard time finding it. This isn't an opinion of our favorite songs, this is our perception of what the most popular songs are.

In no particular order:

I Am a Child of God 

A Child's Prayer

I Love to See the Temple 

Follow the Prophet

Book of Mormon Stories 

Nephi's Courage 

Love One Another

I Hope They Call Me on a Mission

Families Can Be Together Forever

Wise Man and the Foolish Man

I didn't include non-gospel-centered songs, especially since a lot of them are well known outside of Mormon culture. But a list like this wouldn't be complete without:

Popcorn Popping

Day 18 - Crazy for feelin'

Day 18 - A picture of your biggest insecurity.

Ooh, I have too many of those.

One of the things I fear most is being alone.
I think I've mentioned that once or twice before. :)

courtesy

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Day 5 - High School Me

Day 5 – A photo of yourself from high school.


High School was still just yesterday for me. Some people loved it, more hated it.
I was one of the ones that did everything Senior year. The list is long, but the main three are big enough by themselves, and yes, I am very proud of my accomplishments. 

I was Senior Class Secretary, though that sounds classier and cooler than it really is. Class presidencies do very little, though Seniors have one or two bigger responsibilities than the other two. This one will stay following me for the next 5 years if not the rest of my life, as reunions fall into our hands.

I was in Madrigals, the Vice President. Though, admittedly, I'm the only one who cares about that second part. It sounds just a titch nicer on resumes =D I LOVED Madrigals and I miss being in a choir. An exclusive choir, that is. Not that I like being exclusive and "better," but because massive choirs where you're just a small notch in the noise detector aren't all that inviting. Ensemble choirs are fantastic because what you do with your voice actually matters. You need to improve every aspect of the way you personally sing or else the whole group suffers. You grow more, and you feel more. Also, its a friend-friendlier group. In Mads I was lucky enough to have most of the Mads already my friends, so we had tons of fun together on trips and performances. We spent a ridiculous amount of time together and I wouldn't trade those memories for anything.

The last third of my major contributions to Granger High was the most infuriating one. But sometimes I'm pretty sure I miss it the most. I was the Journalism Editor-in-Chief. I was in charge of the newspaper. It was challenging; it made me mad; it never lived up to my hopes and rarely my expectations; I could never do everything I wanted to do with it; I had too much to do and not enough time and definitely not enough resources; I never had enough support. But I gave my all to it (the all that wasn't involved in the other million things I was super involved in) and I ache to go back and do more. I LOVED creating and running the newspaper. The one time I had the chance to actually write an article was thrilling (because it was the only article during the whole year worth writing). However, it completely horrifies me that I will probably never get the chance to do something like that again. To work up the hierarchy of real journalism, you have to do tons of dirty, boring work that I'll never be willing to do. Like I said, I hate writing articles that aren't worth my time, and 90% of them wouldn't be.