Brendan got a new calling this past Sunday. He has been called as the 1st counselor in the Young Men’s presidency. He says that he will honestly miss being Gospel Doctrine teacher, but he’s excited to work with the boys in our ward. He is over the Teacher’s quorum and has an awesome scout leader to help him out. In fact, it’s kind of funny that the men in Young Men’s right now are pretty much all the husband’s of the women who were in Young Women’s with me a few years back. He’ll have Jake next summer and has just outstanding boys to work with right now. It’s going to be great.
We had the BEST YM/YW activity last week. The youth were each told to get a personal copy of the March New Era and read it cover to cover. It’s all on missionary work and mission preparation. They were given a “mission call” a few weeks ago with last week’s date, but the location to be announced later. They had to sign and return the letter. Then last week they met at the church…they were given engraved nametags and paired off with a companion (not necessarily the same age) and given a “mission,” which was a home of someone in our ward. For example, the two boys that came to our house were told that they would be going to a mission to New Zealand at the Smith home. They reviewed a lesson sheet and some scriptures that the YM and YW presidencies had prepared and headed off. They had a “traditional” dinner from that country at the member’s home and we discussed missionary work during dinner. Then, they gave us a lesson on missionary work, challenged us all to be better missionaries and bore their testimony’s about it. One of the boys that came to us will be going on his mission in August and it was so great to see how mature he is and what an incredible little missionary he is already. Then Brendan spent about a half hour sharing experiences and information about New Zealand so they could learn a little about it. It was so great. Everyone had so much fun and it was so great for so many members of the ward to be involved with the youth encouraging their preparing for missions. Jake even said that he hoped that they do this every year. He went to South Africa, but was a little disappointed when they served lasagna, but loved the experience. Jordan, unfortunately had a track meet and had to miss it. It really made a difference in everyone’s lives…including ours.
We had the BEST YM/YW activity last week. The youth were each told to get a personal copy of the March New Era and read it cover to cover. It’s all on missionary work and mission preparation. They were given a “mission call” a few weeks ago with last week’s date, but the location to be announced later. They had to sign and return the letter. Then last week they met at the church…they were given engraved nametags and paired off with a companion (not necessarily the same age) and given a “mission,” which was a home of someone in our ward. For example, the two boys that came to our house were told that they would be going to a mission to New Zealand at the Smith home. They reviewed a lesson sheet and some scriptures that the YM and YW presidencies had prepared and headed off. They had a “traditional” dinner from that country at the member’s home and we discussed missionary work during dinner. Then, they gave us a lesson on missionary work, challenged us all to be better missionaries and bore their testimony’s about it. One of the boys that came to us will be going on his mission in August and it was so great to see how mature he is and what an incredible little missionary he is already. Then Brendan spent about a half hour sharing experiences and information about New Zealand so they could learn a little about it. It was so great. Everyone had so much fun and it was so great for so many members of the ward to be involved with the youth encouraging their preparing for missions. Jake even said that he hoped that they do this every year. He went to South Africa, but was a little disappointed when they served lasagna, but loved the experience. Jordan, unfortunately had a track meet and had to miss it. It really made a difference in everyone’s lives…including ours.
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