sept. 2009
Alex has started taking art and music through Ensign Education online. What an amazing program, we have thoroughly enjoyed it. The music program is written by Michael Ballum, and the art program is focused on Christ and this beautiful world He has created. I love these classes, because they incorporate teachings from the prophets and apostles, and even read scriptures sometimes in class.

We have learned many amazing things through Michael Ballum. Such as, classical music has such an astounding impact on the mind, in memorization, in learning, and in opening up the right side of the brain to help creativity be released. Thomas Jefferson was able to write the Declaration of Independence, once he had sent for and received his violin, his pacing back in forth turned into playing the violin, and then writing, playing the violin, and writing. Albert Einstein said he knows it’s music that enabled him to discover all that he did.

We’re so excited to have found a good piano teacher who is willing to come to our home, and have our children taking piano lessons again, and filling our home with beautiful music. The inspired classical and baroque period musicians were just that…very inspired men, doing a work that would even affect our future.