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Attend
the dress
rehearsals of your local ballet,
opera, or theater. Many times tickets are extremely low priced,
or
even free. Call to find out.
Have
ethnic cooking
classes. Get someone who’s
a native of another country or a returned missionary to come and show
you
how to whip up fabulous foreign meals.
Attend
a city council
meeting to see how the local
government works.
Have
career
exploration nights. Arrange to visit
a business that stays open in the evenings (like a newspaper,
television
or radio station, supermarket, etc.), and find out what it’s like to
work
there.
Take a
tour of your
local library – find out how you
can get the most out of it. Did you know most libraries let you
check
out CDs and videos?
Find
out what your
local shelters need and make items
for them – things like hygiene kits, toys, and quilts.
Have a
Mormonad
brainstorming contest and make Mormonad
posters. Send it to the New Era Magazine. (they will pay
for
for them)
Let
the Laurels and
priests do a “senior year” workshop
for the younger youth in your program.
Have a
creative pizza
party. Roll out biscuit
dough for crusts, and see who can come up with the most unusual or
attractive
toppings.
Visit
your local
television station and watch them
do a news broadcast. (You’ll have to arrange in advance for this
one).
Have a
family history
night where you learn how to
do genealogy, extract records. Etc.
Sponsor
a baby-sitting
clinic and make baby-sitting
kits.
Have a
letter-writi8ng
night when everyone pens a
few encouraging words to the missionaries and military service people
from
your ward.
Have a
letter-writing
night when everyone writes something
positive to a Congressman, mayor, bishop, or parent.
Invite
someone
qualified to give you a clinic in CPR
Host a
missionary
activity when everyone teams up
with either a stake or full-time missionary.
Put on
a special
missionary-oriented activity to which
missionaries can bring their investigators. (These nights are
very
big in the Dominican Republic)
Offer
to tend for the
sisters with children who want
to attend Relief Society homemaking night, and plan some kind of fun,
group
activity for the children.
Have a
kit-flying fest.
Invite
someone who
knows sign language for the deaf
to come teach you a few things about it.
Plan a
fireside for
the rest of the ward or stake
about an important topic like ecology, scriptures study, etc.
Invade
the bishop’s
house and do all sorts of wonderful
things for him like cooking, cleaning, yard, work, and anything else
you
can think of. Don't forget to let his wife know you’re coming.
Have
everyone bring
their favorite recipes and make
a Mutual cookbook.
Have a
New Era Bowl.
Ask
someone to teach
you to can or bottle fruits and
vegetables.
Go
caroling to people
who need a little holiday cheer.
And don’t wait for Christmas. You can carol on Valentine’s Day,
Easter,
Halloween, and other times.
Offer
to redo, clean
up, and fix the dolls and toys
from your local thrift shop.
Have a
manicure
workshop one week, then go to a retirement
home the next week and offer your newfound skills to the residents.
Make a
beautiful quilt
and donate it to a charity
to be sold at auction.
Have a
competition
between the Young Man and Young
Women – each class makes a quilt; then you vote on the most creative or
beautiful, and donate them to charity.
Go to
a hospital and
read stories to the elderly or
to children.
Throw
a finger
painting party.
Volunteer
to help
clean pens and walk the pets at
the local animal shelter
Make a
video of a Book
of Mormon story to show to
the Primary kids.
Ask an
aerobic
instructor to come and conduct a session.
Ask
the missionaries
in your area, both elders and
sisters, to conduct a mission prep workshop.
Stuff
envelopes for a
charity organization or a non-profit
group.
Have a
self-defense
seminar
Have a
bowling night,
but make sure everyone brings
a younger sibling or ward member.
Go on
a tour of the
local university or college to
see what facilities you can be taking advantage of right now.
Volunteer
to prepare
and serve dinner at the local
homeless shelter
Ask
foreign exchange
students in your school to come
talk about their countries.
Get
involved in your
local Adopt-a-Highway program.
Talk
to city
authorities to have them help you set
up a time when you can pain over the graffiti in your area.
Get an
inexpensive
copy of the Book of Mormon, and
give everyone ten or so pages to read. That way, together you can
read the entire Book of Mormon in one night. Discuss what
you
read.
Learn
how to dip
chocolates.
Form a
dating
panel. Have girls tell boys what
they like, what bothers them, etc., and have boys do the same thing.
Do a
family home
evening clinic where everyone shares
one of their favorite activities or lessons and everyone gets ideas and
instructions for things that could work in their won families.
Invite
someone to
speak on how to look for and get
a job
Play
“Scriptionary,” which is like “Pictionary”,
but you draw something to represent a scripture rather than a word.
Have a
journal-writing
workshop. Let everyone
share what works for them; then challenge each other to write
faithfully
for the next couple of weeks. It could be a Young Men versus
Young
Women competition.
Have a
music night
when everyone learns to lead music.
Then make an “orchestra” of your own using your ingenuity to create
instruments
out of common household items brought from home.
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