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'Something sacred happens every day' in early-morning seminary

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By Aaron Shill

Mormon Times

Sunday, May. 10, 2009

The early-morning seminary program -- with all its attendant adventures and blessings -- is highlighted with a series of profiles on students, teachers and families from around the country, on MormonTimes.com beginning today.

Cathy Pickren is an early-morning seminary teacher -- not a morning person.

So she knows a crash is coming.

"I have the energy to do it during the school year, but after it's over I drop like a popped balloon,” said Pickren, of Saratoga, Wyo. “I sleep for about two weeks.”

When school resumes in the fall, however, she’ll once again put in hours of daily lesson preparation, get by on five or six hours of sleep and arrive at the Laramie (my added correction here - she doesn't drive to Laramie. She stays in Saratoga lol) Mormon meetinghouse each weekday morning for the 6:15 a.m. class.

“Something sacred happens every day,” she said. “It’'s so worth it.”

Pickren is in her fifth year of teaching early-morning seminary and ... read the rest

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If you don't know what seminary is: Click here - Early Morning meets before school. There is also 'release time' in areas highly populated with LDS students. They kids are allowed to leave school for one period during the day and attend seminary. "Home study" seminary meets once a week and is for students who can't do either thing - they do most of the work on their own and then meet together with a teacher just that once a week.