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Christmas Service Project for injured members of US Armed Forces
I saw this post on Facebook today, and am sharing it here so you all can see it, too. When doing your Christmas cards, take one and send it to this address: A Recovering American Soldier c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center 6900 Georgia Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20307 USA. I think this would make a great family home evening…
Make Your Own Butter with a Baby Food Jar
You can make your own butter quickly and easily! My son did this at school for a thanksgiving meal, and you can do it, too! You’ll need: – a glass baby food jar or similar glass jar – VERY cold heavy whipping cream Note: You can use larger jars, but making the butter takes lots longer. Step ONE: Fill the…
Spudwood Derby Activity
Every year, Memphis singles enjoy their annual Spudwood Derby. After a great baked potato bar, singles are separated into teams that make a “spudwood” derby car out of a raw potato. Using a pinewood derby track, toothpicks, paring knives, and a set of pinewood derby tires, each team races in several heats to get bragging rights for the next year.…
Planning Successful LDS Singles Activities: A case study of the Memphis Tennessee LDS Singles Branch
I interviewed a Young Single Adult in the Memphis, Tennessee area, John Moore, and got a lot of information on activities that group has held over the past few years. Planning / Advertising One of the keys for holding successful singles’ activities, according to Brother Moore, is holding events that single males enjoy. It seems that many women show up…
Ward Auction Questionaire
The following questions were used at a Relief Society Enrichment activity. Women brought stuff from home or offered services that were “auctioned” using the play money that women earned from this form. ————————– If you have gotten up on time regularly for the past 3 months $5 If you have read the scriptures regularly for the past month $5 If…
Missionary-themed Ward Christmas Party
For Christmas this year, our ward held an awesome missionary-themed activity! The Bishop’s goal was to help each family prepare an attractive gift for a friend or neighbor that contained treats and missionary tracts, etc. We also had a station to write letters to missionaries serving from our own ward. Each family was given at least one gift bag to…
International Cuisine Night
We assigned various members of young men and young women a country. (Some of the youth we chose were the ones that had siblings in YM or YW–so two of them could make something together). We asked them to prepare a dish (dessert, appetizer, or main course item,etc.) that is from that country. We gathered information from the Internet about…
Parable’s Iron Chef
We divided the mutual into 6 groups: priests, laurels, miamaids, teachers, beehives, deacons. Each group had 45 minutes to decide on a parable or scripture story that they would demonstrate by decorating the cake. Some of the ideas our mutual came up with: Noah’s ark (make an ark out of cake, had fish in the water, made animals out of…
Awesome Activities for LDS Church members
