Tribute to Mothers
 

Seeing as it is Mothers Day next month we got in early and had a "Tribute to Mothers" evening. We chose this to come under the Strengthening relationships section. I assigned 13 sisters that could talk about there mothers or people they were very close to, or could find out about anonymously, to do a 5-6 min presentation about their mother or person. What I told them to do was to give a brief 5-6 minute life history containing a faith promoting experience and a happy experience.  (I was allowing for really 10 people to do it knowing that I would have at least 3 people pull out) (I said only 5-6 minutes because I knew they would go over-time, which they did).   When everyone entered the room I had the lights down low and a pretty lamp on a table that I had decorated with everything that related to mothers or mother qualities, I had my Enrichment leader playing lovely music. 

We started with the Poem that I got from someone called "When I am a little old Lady" which made people laugh. We then went straight into the lesson, which my poor Leader had to do with only 2 hours of notice because our teacher pulled out, but she did a lovely job, talking about mothers, and especially adding that some people don't get the opportunity in this life to be a mother but we all have mother like qualities etc. She then finished her lesson with a lovely song called "An Angel to Watch over me", which she played and sang.

I had given each of the 10 sisters the order that they were to go in, to do the tribute to their mothers. They stood with a spotlight on them while on the other side of the table there was a projector aimed at the white wall, as the sisters started their tributes a picture of there person when they were younger would come onto the screen. That is when the sister realized that they were going to be talked about. We had asked for 2 pictures one of them older and one of them younger, so during the talk they other older picture would show. At the end of the tributes of the 10 people we had my leader play lovely music again while we had all the other sisters of the wards picture show. We had taken this during 2 weeks prior just on Sunday, so that no-one would be left out. We laughed, we cried it was so lovely, what with the atmosphere and the photos the night was very special.

We had also made each sister a concertina card using card-stock and scrap booking papers and a little saying on each section of the card, about daughters, sisters, mothers and Womanhood. This was to include each facet of womanhood. These were given out to them at the end of the evening as a mothers day gift I guess you could say.