Garrett's Testimony

Garrett is not the typical 10 year old boy. He has never been typical at whatever age he was. At 5 and 6 he was reading nutrition labels and discussing the vitamins in things. Now he is giving out marriage and parenting advice. His prayers have always been interesting. When he was little, his older sisters would all have to listen to his evening prayers because you just never knew what he was going to say, but I'll save all that for another post. What I want to talk about now is his testimony.
Garrett bears his testimony every single month in Testimony meeting. I mean every month. He never misses and hasn't for at least a year and a half. Now I know a lot of kids do the same but the difference is that he doesn't bear the typical little kid testimony with the same few sentences. Garrett gets up and gives a sermon. At first when he started doing this he said some things that really weren't appropriate for a testimony and we would find ourselves wanting to crawl under the bench. Even now we tense up a bit when he stands up. We have had many discussions on what constitutes a testimony. So now he has gotten pretty good at it. I have had branch members tell me that they love it when he stands up, although some say they get a little nervous just like we do. One went on and on one day about what a great missionary he'll make because he isn't nervous at all getting up and speaking in front of people. For a while he had the theme of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and having to wait 4 years to handle the plates. This last meeting he got up after an older woman who sang a song during her testimony. Her voice was a bit warbly (Emma leaned over and said, "That's creepy"). When Garrett got up we were really worried what he would say. He started saying something about it being different and unique but then commented that it was nice. Then he talked about how life is like a video game and how every new step, such as getting baptized, takes us to a new level that is more challenging and how winning the game is like making it to the Celestial kingdom. It was an amazingly well-thought out analogy! We just never know what he is going to come up with!