First, you need a theme. Ours was Psalms 133:1 "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren (and sisters) to dwell together in unity!"
Right down to the wire, you finally get 98 YSA to register for the Belfast Northern Ireland Multistake Activity. As we were reminded, most YSAs are procrastinators. But they came! They came from Venezuela, Tallin - Estonia, California, Virginia, Arizona, Dundee - Scotland, all over England, Dublin, Limerick, Wales, quite a few girls from America, Botswana - Africa and Brazil.
Have a Halloween Dance
Even "costumes" provided by one of our YSA!
The Devil & Sister Bee
Watch a demonstration of police dogs sniffing out drugs, blood, people hiding in bushes and attacking fleeing criminal suspects...
Hold workshops on family relationships.
Organize a service project to build bird boxes...
Have lots of good food, good laughs, good visiting and bonding. This is called good craic in Northern Ireland.
Arrange Salsa Dancing instruction by two professional instructors, who very gently persuaded everyone to get out on the dance floor and learn, trading partners very frequently.
Have powerful devotionals.
Hold an Addiction Recovery Seminar.
Attend a spirit-filled Sunday meeting block.
Prepare a slideshow of our Multistake Activity and Mormon Messages.
Invite an Area Seventy to attend. Elder Sonny Donaldson flew in from Madrid, Spain to do a fireside for us. He talked about the parables in Luke chapter 5.
The initials are of those that we all know that need to be invited to return back to the fold.
Look like this if you are left at the tail end of the activity. (This is about a third of those that came.)
A MAJOR Success!!! It came together without a hitch and a good time was had by all!
It seems we're in such a whirlwind. We have less than 5 months to be with these amazing people.
It has been nothing but a pure blessing and pleasure to be here and to work with everyone. It's just not possible to be in a better place with a better people!
I just have one word for what is going on back home... "Obummer!!!"
Be good, and know that we love and miss you something fierce!
XOXOX Sister Bee
Irish Slang:
freshers - freshman
homeworks - homework
housemates - roommates
Riley saw Grandpa in costume and said, "Grandpa was a kitty!" :)
ReplyDeleteI thought I was a kitty too, until I read Grandma's post.
ReplyDeleteThat was sooo much fun, I'll never forget meeting you!
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