HFPE Theme - Saints Around the World
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Subject: RS: HFPE Idea
I thought I'd share the idea we did for Enrichment meeting last night.
Our theme was "Saints Around the World ...United Soul, Heart and Hand".
We sent out invitations with people holding hands around the border (Hallmark).
We decorated the Cultural Hall with international cardstock people (from
the teaching store) and had them lined up across the front of the with hearts
in between each one. We had a banner with our theme across the front
of the Cultural Hall, like we always do. This was a dinner, so the tables
were decorated with white round tablecloths and inflatable globes (from OTC)
for centerpieces. I also bought "placemats" from the teaching store,
they were really a paper world map but looked exactly like paper placemats.
We also decorated all the walls with pictures of the temples from all over
the world. I went to WalMart and found "world" fabric for $5.00 a panel.
We hung one across the front as the focal point and placed one on in the
center of the buffet table.
We had them sign up for a door prize and a jar of M&M's for the sister
who guessed the closest to the right amount. It was funny because the guesses
ranged from 100- 900! There were actually 427!
We played a "gathering game", which we called "Temples to Dot the World".
I had found a list of all 122 temples listed on one page and a basic world
map which we had at each place setting.. They were to try to put
"dot" where the temple was located. Later, we gave them a map with the answers.
The lesson was entitled, "We, Being Many, Are One." We are blessed to have
a wonderful HFPE teacher so the lesson is always "enriching". She started
out with the last 8 minutes of the video, "An Ensign to the Nations". (EXCELLENT
church video!) The spirit can be felt so strong when watching this video.
She talked about our "oneness" such as we all have the same prophet, the
same gospel, the same scriptures etc. Strength in adversity and so
on.
Next, we had 2 sisters from Hong Kong tell of their conversion and testimony.
Powerful.
Then, we showed a 5 minute video a woman in our ward had made when she was
teaching birthing skills to the women in Mozambique, Arica. It
was set to beautiful music and it was touching to see the conditions of our
dear brothers and sisters who live there. Then we sang a song I had adapted
from a poem called "Because We Are All Sisters". I had changed the words
around to fit the tune "Because I Have Been Given Much" which we sang. We
then did a wonderful service project we called "Because We Are All Sisters"
after the poem/song. We had previously had the sisters sign up to bring
items needed for "birthing kits". They brought their items to HFPE
where we had a goal to assemble 200 kits. We completed 209! The
sisters loved it!
The menu was GREEK Salad, FRENCH Onion Soup, ITALIAN Manicotti, KOREAN Fire
Meat, and Apple pie with vanilla icecream and American Flags in the top.
Yum!
Warmly, Linda Greer in Gilbert, AZ