Year End Activities

The school year is now officially over and that means we have come to an end with our institute and seminary classes.  Studying the Old Testament has been a rewarding experience and both the students and teachers have learned a multitude of things about the house of Israel.  Hopefully this will always be beneficial in the lives of our students as we tried to apply the teachings to their lives now. 



President George was our biggest winner here



We thought it would be fun to have one extra week in institute and do some activities with them.  Before we got started on the activities we showed a DVD presentation to each of the classes.  One class was able to view the last CES Fireside broadcast and the other one watched "Only a Stone Cutter" as they had already seen the broadcast earlier.   Our Utwe Branch had not played the M&M game so we brought plenty of M&Ms and straws.  They quite enjoyed doing this game.

We tried some of the "Minute to Win It" games also.  We did not actually do the entire group of activities, but chose 4 diffferent ones to do.   We did the one where you had to build a pyramid with plastic cups and return them to a single stack, they they had to blow up a ballon and try and blow off the cups from a table. We tried the activity where you have to keep three blown up balloons in the air for at least 1 minute. 

We got such a good laugh from everyone playing these games.  Our only problem was that the balloons available here were not very good and kept popping on us.  Our teacher, Sister Jonathan,  really got into these games and had fun doing each activity. 

The last minute activity was to put the latter-day prophets in the correct order.  I was impressed on how well they knew all of these. 

Next we played a dice and number card game.  We brought 2 or 3 different kinds of cookies for treats afterwards.  But we also had suckers for those winning in the other games.  Everyone likes suckers here from the youngest to the oldest you can see them enjoying their suckers.

It was two great nights of fun in our institute classes.  How we will miss doing this next year.

We also had a scripture mastery challenge between our Lelu seminary class and the zone leaders, Elders Madsen and Agalzoff.
The Elders ended up winning by one point.  They were the fastest in giving scripture references to clue words, but the class was tops in finding it in the scriptures and quoting the verse from memory.  We forgot our to take our camera that day.  So sad.  What a great way to end our S & I year.