If you've ever had the opportunity to attend an LDS Girl's Camp, you may have enjoyed a Faith Walk. I hadn't even participated in a Faith Walk until I went back to camp as an adult leader. The premise is that the girls are led in the evening time to various "stations" to meet with someone who will retell or share a faith-promoting story or experience. To make the biggest impact, the girls are instructed beforehand, there is to be no talking during their walk. Additionally, only a handful of leaders or girls are given a lantern to carry. You want to make sure there is enough light to be safe, but dark enough to avoid distractions. Often times, our faith walks began at dusk. Lanterns (like pictured above) may also be strategically placed along the walk to assist those on the journey. You could also make something like this ahead of time for the leaders to carry, or if preferred, one for each girl. Remember, the idea is to create a spiritual ambiance, not a spooky one! After the first year of participating in a faith walk, I found myself being called as the camp director for the next summer. I definitely wanted to have the girls participate in something like that again, although a quick search in google left me hard-pressed for new ideas for a Faith Walk. (In the one we did, it was meeting "Women of Value", aka characters of women in history who represented each value, i.e., Joan of Arc, Sacajawea, etc.) I found I was left to my own devices, and after praying at great lengths, felt I needed to provide an opportunity for the girls to get to know our Savior better. As soon as the idea hit, the rest just came to me. Journey of the Savior is a faith walk in which the young women can meet those who knew the Savior and hear accounts of how He impacted their life. The final scene they come upon is a reenactment of the Savior, during His final hours, praying in the garden of Gethsemane. It was quite a sight to see, and all who were there were touched. I'm pleased that over these past few years, my google searches have turned up more ideas for Faith Walks, as they seem to be catching on. I wrote about our girls' experience on my personal blog, and I'm sure it was a Google search that has led others to send me messages requesting a copy of my Journey to the Savior Faith Walk. So, FINALLY, no more having to ask and wait. {{Click here to download Journey to the Savior pdf}} Good luck! Let me know how it goes! :)
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Have a fun ward activity or youth night by playing the Mormon Family Feud. Here are the answers to the Mormon Family Feud Questionnaire so you can put together your own game for a spirited and fun Mormon activity night. Every since posting the Mormon Family Feud Questionnaire a few months ago, I've been getting emails and requests for the answers. I'll be honest, I've been pretty anxious and excited to see what the results of the questionnaire are too. I finally found a quiet evening this week to go through the answers and tally them up. I haven't had time to actually organize and figure out exactly how I'm going to use them yet, although I do have ideas and will probably start putting the game together during the next quiet time I can find. But in the meantime, since some of you are having this activity sooner than I am, I wanted to share the Mormon Family Feud Questionnaire answers. I have included all the answers that had at least two of the same responses. I didn't disqualify them if they weren't a correct answer to the question (but I probably will during the game), so you can decide how you want to handle that in the meantime. I am not sure when I will actually post the game itself, I may post it next month when I can and then post a final round up after we actually play the game with all my ideas, hints and tips. So if you are wanting to try and have this activity after the new year, you can stay tuned for that post. In the meantime, here are the answers (and here is a printable version if you want it): 1. Name a Book of Mormon prophet Nephi 42 Alma 22 Moroni 10 Abinadi 7 Lehi 7 Ammon 2 Helaman 2. Name something you do when you get home from church Eat 39 Change Clothes 31 Sleep/Nap 29 Read Scriptures 1 3. Name a popular church hymn I am a Child of God 17 Spirit of God 16 Come, Come Ye Saints 9 Called to Serve 6 Praise to the Man 5 I Believe in Christ 4 I Stand All Amazed 3 My Redeemer Lives 3 Because I Have Been... 2 Thank Thee For Prophet 2 Choose The Right 2 4. Name a temple within the state of Utah Salt Lake City 38 Manti 15 Provo 11 Logan 10 Ogden 6 Jordan 5 Bountiful 4 St George 4 Mt. Timp 2 Brigham City 2 5. Name something Lehi took into the wilderness His Family 50 Tent 18 Food 4 Liahona 4 Brass Plates 4 6. Name a refreshment served at a fireside Cookies 50 Brownies 29 Root Beer Floats 4 Water 4 Donuts 3 Punch 3 Rice Krispie Treats 2 Lemonade 2 7. Name something against the Word of Wisdom Alcohol 36 Coffee 28 Smoking 15 Tobacco 10 Tea 4 Hot Drinks 3 8. Name a popular food storage item Wheat 47 Rice 13 Flour 7 Beans 5 Water 4 Potatoes 4 Fruit 4 Oats 3 Dry Milk 2 Soup 2 Sugar 2 9. Name a main dish you would eat for Sunday dinner Roast Beef 37 Pot Roast 17 Chicken 11 Ham 7 Casserole 5 Breakfast 5 Lasagna 3 Haystacks 2 10. Name a miracle performed by Jesus Christ Healing the Sick 37 Raise the Dead 23 Healing the Lepers 13 Water into Wine 11 Walk on Water 10 Feeding the 5000 5 The Atonement 2 More Answers Page 1 2 3 4 5
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For my Relief Society calling in church I am the second counselor in the presidency, over the Additional meetings. We had a great meeting a couple of weeks ago with the theme, "Mission Possible". We wanted to focus on the missionaries serving from our ward and support them. For weeks before the event we had sisters volunteering to bring items for the various missionaries from our ward to put in care packages to be sent to them all over the world. Each Mother of a missionary made a list of things that their missionary would love to receive. We had such a great response from the sisters and received so many things for the packages. We dressed up in detective garb each Sunday to give our announcements. We even had a cute invitation we handed out to each sister that had been placed in a small manila envelope labeled "Mission Possible". The evening started off with a dinner. We had sisters bring various dishes from either the place where their missionary is serving, where they themselves served, or just whatever they felt like bringing! An amazing selection of foods were brought. I made coconut rice and an avocado corn salad in honor of my son who is serving in Brasil. I got both recipes from the Internet and they were yummy! I loved the cute little napkins that were folded to look like white shirts. We added the ties made from Fruit Stripe gum. The tie banner added a lot to the decor. This table was set up with a bag for each missionary from our ward to collect the items for their care boxes and a paper with the name of each missionary on top was set out for the sisters to write messages to each one. We invited the Elders serving in our ward to join us for dinner and leave a short message with us. They thought this idea sounded awesome and they said they wished that their home wards would do something like this for them! Secretly we had the ladies write short letters to these Elder's mothers that we will be sending to let them know how much we appreciate their son's service in our area. On each table we had the plaques displayed that belong to each missionary from our ward. We also had some paper and pens so that the sisters could write a short message to them. After the dinner we had the mother's of missionaries serving from our ward read a letter from their missionaries. It was touching and fun to hear of each missionaries' experiences. The spirit of missionary work was definitely felt that evening as our thoughts turned to our full-time missionaries. We will be sending this picture along with the letters written for the mother's of the Elders serving in our ward. As a missionary mom I know that they will love it!
Please join us and invite your neighbors! We are putting together a fun trivia game about YOU -- the sisters in the Brickyard Relief Society! But in order to find out more about "Whoo's Who?" we need your help. We've extended our deadline to Sunday, August 10th to receive this information. We need sisters to provide one (or both) of the following: 1.) An interesting piece of trivia that no one (or few people) knows about you. 2.) A "Then" and "Now" picture of yourself of when you were a baby/child to current day. You can email either of these to [email protected] or Jacqui Verbica: [email protected]. You can also bring it to us on Sunday. We can even scan the pictures for you and return them to you the night of the party. We will also have papers for you to pick up on Sunday and you can fill out your trivia on the spot. Even if you will NOT be in attendance, we hope you will participate! We'd love for everyone to get to know you. This, of course, is not required for you to attend. Neither is bringing a dish for our potluck meal. We're happy to have you in whatever way, shape or form. :) We look forward to seeing you on the 15th!!!!
We just had our Relief Society Fall Social and it was a BIG success! Is this because of me? NO! It was definitely a group effort and everyone was AWESOME! No one likes to be micro-managed so we decided who would do what and then let them do it. Betty Jo and Candice were in charge of decorations, Lori and Patty were over the food, Kathy brought the desserts and I was over advertising, getting the speaker arranged and making sure we had a musical number. Here is the poster. I made two of them. I used the Cricut. One for each foyer. I made announcements in RS each week, posted the info on our RS Facebook page each week and our amazing secretary Kelli sent out several emails including one saying, In just 2 hours is our fall social. At least one sister who had been planning on coming said she had forgotten until she received that last minute email. The decorations were beautiful. Sunflowers, fall leaves, and gorgeous fall colors. Dinner was ordered from Olive Garden. Soup, salad and bread sticks. It was so delicious and reasonable too. Marie Calendar Pie for desert. Also a big hit. I asked Martha to be in charge of the musical number. It couldn't have turned out better. Martha has a real knack for putting together the right voices with the right song. I knew the number would be great, but I was not expecting what we got. Six beautiful ladies came into the room dressed in choir robes. (Notice how the robes match our tablecloths.) Martha asked for some volunteers with good rhythm and handed them percussion instruments. A tambourine, a cricket and a cowbell. After Martha helped the percussionists set a rhythm, the choir began to sing. They sang the Hymn There Is Sunshine In My Soul Today which is a happy, cheerful song sung the regular way, but this choir gave it such a fun twist. (Think Black Gospel choir at a Southern Baptist church.) Everyone loved it and ended up clapping along. Next came the highlight of the evening. We had a wonderful guest speaker who talked to us about hope and keeping our focus on the Savior. She was truly inspiring. WE had a basket of these pillow box favors for everyone to take as they left. To make the favors I used pillow boxes that I already had. I got them on sale at Michael's in the baby shower section. I cut a sunflower using my Cricut, but you could easily use any flower punch. I just cut 2 and glued one off centered ontop of the other, added the circle center and a little bow. I glued it onto the box and added a tag with the saying: Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind-Walt Whitman. You are welcome to use the tags. Just print them HERE and use a tag punch to cut them out. I would definitely say this was a successful activity. We had about 60 people attend which is really good for us. Come back soon,
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Today I would like to share my friend Sandi's Relief Society activity- (Patterson Ward Ca.} Their theme- "Come Grow with us" to encourage going the extra mile in Visiting Teaching. She had the cutest ideas...I was just a little helper...
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Despite the storm brewing in the sky that night, we had a GREAT turnout for our May Relief Society meeting! The theme was "Rock, Paper, Scriptures." We focused on ways to come closer to the Savior and "hold to the rod." Carrie opened up the evening with some personal experiences and a wonderful video emphasizing the importance of daily scripture study in our lives. We then split into three classes and got to take part in some great discussions. ROCK Teryl told us about her grandfather and the house he built one rock at a time. It was a three year process but the results were a house with a strong foundation and walls that would stand through the years. Even after the house was vandalized, it still maintained its structure and has been fixed up and still stands today. She tied this in with our own lifelong efforts to build upon the rock of our Redeemer. Helaman 5:12 states: And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall. PAPER Brianne led a great discussion on journaling and how it blesses our lives-- and the lives of our posterity! We talked about different kinds of journals we can keep: scrapbooks online journals (someone suggested we all try out www.ldsjournal.com !) good old fashioned pen and paper journals family journals scripture journals gratitude journals blogs Not only can we benefit from looking back at past journal entries, but our future children and grandchildren may be able to gain something from them as well. If you think about it, the scriptures themselves are record keeping and "journaling" of ancient prophets. So, in a way, our personal journals we keep can be like our own "scripture" we are writing for our future children and grandchildren to learn and grow from. SCRIPTURES (Holding to the rod): Kimberly lassoed us up and took us on a little obstacle course to drive home her point. Her instructions to us were only this: "Hold on to the rope and follow me." So the group was all walking along clumped together in the loop of the rope. We thought getting up the narrow stairway to the stage was difficult... ...but that seemed like nothing when we realized we hand to climb under a small table!!! Kimberly just kept repeating "Just hold on to the rope and follow me." Most groups went through the whole thing trying to stay inside the loop of the rope. This last group made the realization as they were trying to cram under the table that Kimberly never said they had to stay in the loop. They just had to hold onto the rope! They realized that it would be much easier if they untied the loop and just each held onto it in a straight line. This was a great object lesson that brought us closer together as sisters (literally). We discussed the point of this exercise and applied it to our own journeys in life. Sometimes we get too caught up in doing things a certain way or a way we think it should be done or even the way that MOST people do it. But, that isn't always the most effective way. Ultimately, our instruction is to "hold to the rope and follow me"-- or hold to the rod and follow Him. We need to try to get rid of those distractions or unimportant things that sometimes make it so much more difficult than it needs to be! We shared different things we personally do to bring ourselves closer to Christ and our Heavenly Father-- different ways we have found to do things that work well for US personally. Whether it was methods of scripture study or ways to get rid of distractions in life. After these awesome messages we joined back together to close our meeting. Carrie invited each of us to take a rock from the table in the back of the room and write on it something that was a "spiritual rock" in our lives. Either a favorite scripture or quote. We can display these rocks somewhere as a reminder of having that strong foundation in our lives. And... of course we enjoyed some tasty refreshments together! We had fruits and veggies and dips. Our new friend Ann even brought some delicious Pilipino dishes for us to try! A tasty sesame noodle dish and some potstickers. We always have a great time getting together as sisters and visiting together. And tonight was no different.
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