Parents Help Children Learn Scripture Stories With Legos

During the summer of 2005, Steven J. Van Wagenen (BA ’96, MBA ’98), director of operations at KLAS Enterprises in Orem, Utah, hurt his back. But his sons Taylor and Matthew, then 7 and 5 years old, still wanted to play with their dad, so they broke out the Legos. Van Wagenen, however, decided he wanted to do more than build randomly; he wanted the blocks to depict something significant. He thought of the Book of Mormon. “Our first scene was to show Nephi retrieving the brass plates,” Van Wagenen says. “My sons made Laban a man with an eye patch.” That scene soon became 26, which they combined with scripture verses in a self-published book, Brick of Mormon Stories.

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