A Glimmer of Hope

We recently started including scriptures as part of our bedtime routine. It seemed like the best place to fit it in where it was sure to get done. We read both Grown-Up Scriptures (The Book of Mormon) and Big Kid Scriptures (the Book of Mormon Stories reader). It's only a few verses, but it works, and Elena reads one verse from hers all by herself so she can practice reading. Now that you have context...

Scriptures go as usual. Small children are wiggling, the baby is fussy, Mom and Dad's patience is wearing thin. It's important, though, so we plow onward. Nephi would do the same, so we can, too. We've heard 1st Nephi so many times that we forget that this is the first time the kids have really heard it. As they leave Jerusalem, they leave behind "all their gold and their silver and their precious things..." Elena's eyes light up. Could this be...? In a tiny voice, almost as if she doesn't quite dare trust that it could be this good, she asks, "Are they... pirates?"