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We did "Survivor" night. We started out in the Relief Society room for opening
exercises and a spiritual lesson on 'Spiritual Preparedness'.
From there, they were instructed to board the plane, Air Mexico, it was called.
We passed out boarding passes as the sisters left from one door. They
were decorated to resemble an airplane boarding pass, one pass was in
gold, and the other pass was blue. These were the teams, team gold and
team blue. (You can choose any colors, we just had this color fabrics
that we could access and use. ) One of the presidency met them at the
'plane door' with a little tiny cup of trail mix. No one was allowed to
take any food from the plane, and the trail mix was an important part of
the evening. (At some point the challenge was to write down on the
ingredients in the trail mix and whoever got them all got the points for
that challenge). We had part of the cultural hall sectioned off with the
accordion
doors. We had the chairs set up in groups resembling an airplane 3 on
one side and 2 on the other with an aisle in the middle. For the left
wall we had the two roller chalk boards and one chair rack which was
covered with a long piece of fabric. On the fabric and on the other
wall we had print outs of and 8/10 sheet of paper that looked like a
window with sky and clouds on it. On the back of each chair we had a
brown paper sack that said "In Case of Motion Sickness" written on it
and taped to the chair. The three sisters who were in charge of the
tasting table dressed up like airline stewardess and rolled a cart with
the food and drink up the 'aisle' and served us. (After welcoming us to
the plane and pointing out the 'invisible' safety features. The pilot
(behind the wall} also welcomed us and did his little 'pilot' talk. The
sisters were roaring and felt very special being served first class on
glass party plates. When the food was finished we 'landed' and exited
to the island paradise. The sisters who were the flight attendants were a hoot.
We had the rest of the cultural hall decorated with flowers and ivy and
palm trees made by one of the presidency's children and taped to the
walls. We had a banner for each color team and two poles with the color
flag of each team and a small table next to it. There they chose a name
for their teams and tied a strip of their team fabric ether around their
heads or on their arms. One chose the "Golden Girls". The other 'An
Sisters". {Go figure, we don't have a clue where the second name came from.}
We spent the evening doing different challenges and ended up for 'tribal counsel' where our Enrichment Night leader asked different questions about
emergency preparedness. They were all winners and received a 'Treasure'
candy bar, but the team with the most points also received some auction
credits for the 'Service Auction' coming up in a few months. (Oh yes,
they were each given one of those party whistles to blow when they knew the
answer)
Every one had a blast, and were taught and reminded of some very
valuable lessons along the way. And we also were able to pick out the
most competitive sisters of the bunch. It was a great success.
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