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Create stationary to write missionaries.
Christy's Clipart
I heard of an idea somewhere to get pillowcases
and let the girls use fabric markers to write messages, favorite scriptures, and
decorate them. We are going to do this during the lesson and then I am then
going to give them to the parents to mail in the next letters they send to their
missionaries. I was thinking about putting one of the following on the
pillowcases: "May your dreams be full of our thoughts from home" or "Our words
are meant to support you after a day of hard work".
Since the pillowcases are flat they won't be
expensive to mail in a manila envelope. Also I thought the section of the lesson
that talks about the questions asked to a group of missionaries would be a
perfect set-up for a game of family feud. So I am going to divide the girls into
two teams and have one person from each come up. I will read the question and
have them try to answer as close as possible to the answers given in the
manuals. This way the girls will be more inclined to share their ideas and I am
hoping we can get a discussion going.
(Idea by Kirsten Woodward)
I videotaped several return
missionaries and asked them a few questions about the ways letters had sustained
them. I also asked about the kinds of things people wrote that they they found
distracting. They were very candid and I really had the girls' attention for the
whole lesson. It was great for the girls to hear from the returned missionaries
themselves how much it meant to hear other members' testimonies and to hear
about their missionary experiences back home. It was also good to hear that the
missionaries really didn't want to hear all the details of social life back
home. It gave the girls something to think about. I tried to interview a real
variety of people from a variety of ages, but focused mostly on those who had
returned in the past year. When selecting people, I also considered how
interesting they might be on tape to keep it flowing. The girls loved it! At
the end of the lesson I gave the girls stamped, addressed envelopes to the
missionaries serving from our ward and challenged them to take an envelope and
write a motivational letter to that person. (Idea shared by Janet Porowski /
ga06192007)
Joyfully Supporting Missionaries - (from BYU Women's Conference)
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We have a sister in our ward who just left for the Milan, Italy
Mission. I told the girls to bring a picture of themselves they knew they
would not keep. We are putting our testimonies and picture in the front of a
Book of Mormon to give to her. But then I realized a few issues. Our girls
did not know Italian and I don't have access to buying Italian copies of the
Book of Mormon. So, I wrote a bunch of sentences that were parts of a
testimony and searched google for a translation. Google and others have
places where you can translate sentences! So I am bringing nice paper
and sentences in English and then translated to Italian so they can choose
which sentences they want in their testimony. We will mount their pictures
and testimonies on nice paper and send her the papers for her to mount inside
Italian books when she gets them. I think they will really have fun writing
their testimonies in Italian! (Idea from Carrie Motley / ga09232007)
Have one of the girls step outside in the hall and bring
something out that is very interesting for the girls in the classroom to be
involved in or talk about. Have the girl from the hallway come back in
while the rest of the girls ignore her and continue on with their activity/
conversationon. I was thinking about taking this a step further,
and having my Spanish-speaking girls talk in Spanish so they can't be
understood. I want to demonstrate how missionaries may feel being alone in
a strange place and never hearing from their friends/families. (Idea by Sandra
Dee Pinney / ga06072007)
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